Mosquitofish fry

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MN_Rebel;2367140; said:
Who said gambusia were native to Africa? Where you get this rubbish information? Gambusia affinis are native to SouthEast United States which thats in North America....Gambusia aint native to Africa...maybe you got wrong "mosquitofish" as any species can have same name.

Also gambusia care are not similar to guppy care either, they're harder than guppies.
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I find them way easier than guppies close to indestructable . I have them in back yard small 40 gallon pvc pond and only pond with no heater.
They thrive all yr long and non stop breeding .Ph ,etc they couldn't care less. Though they prefer heat. I was going to put some of the black/white ones in 20 gall tank but they fight so much left them in planted pond .
Some with lots gold are very pretty but so combative.
 
Andy is right on the gambusia being invasive in different places around the world. And Africa use the gambusia as mosquito control.

Louie, wow do you have pictures of male mosquitofish have golden spots on them?
 
MN_Rebel;2367014; said:
thats really young female as she will probably have 20 fry but mostly of them will get eaten by the mother. Big females will throw 70 to 100 fry.
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Uh oh, that many? And I'm removing her to put her in the plastic tank. MN REBEL can you post a pic of a young pregnant female? I think she's an Affins because the local lake has em and they are much more grayish blue, since I'm in NY I fugure those are Holbrooki and that mine are Affins. As soon as I find a ruler i'll measure her. My other one is pretty big, 1 3/4'':D:headbang2
 
Affinis and Holbrooki looks like to each other and have same care, Holbrooki were used to be subspecies of Affins but now Holbrooki is separated species from Affinis by number of rays on the males' stick fins. So you probably have affinis as they can handle cold temp than Holbrooki, do your female have dots on their fins?
 
post some pics up that would be helpful
 
Well color varies from populations to populations. In South Everglades populations are heavily spotted while Naple populations have only polkadots, and some populations are intergrades (half affins, half holbrooki). So we dont know what species you have but we know you have either Affinis or Holbrooki as both species are found in NJ.
 
new jersey? i'm from ny lol but Affins is not native to the east coast right? I have no way of knowing where they came from, they are rescued feeder fish
 
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