Breeding Of Livebeares

Breeding livebearer fish

The breeding of livebearer fish is very easy and may breed 10 to 100 babies at a time. The newborn fry of the livebearers is larger than the hatched fry. So they can easily survive in the aquarium. The pregnant fish appear to grow large at the top of her pregnancy. Her belly gets more round and her hulking looks box-shaped. We can see the eyes of the babies through the translucent skin of the belly near the gravid spot.

How To Take Care of the livebearer fish fry?

Other adult fish and even their parents can eat free swimming babies. So the rising of fry is not easy. If you would like to grow the babies you want to have a separate aquarium for the small fry. If you do not have a separate tank, and you would like to keep the fry and their parents or other adult fish together. Then you should have tons of plants, gravel, and other hidden places in the tank to Save the fry from adult fish. You should keep your adults well-fed because hungry parents often don't eat their fry. The fry can eat crushed flake food, coddled egg yolk, or prepared food available on the market. Food should tend to the fry 5 or 6 times each day in little quantity. The young fry can reach maturity in 3 or 4 months. Aquarium Plants and hidden places are very important for the aquarium. It will make the aquarium most attractive and beautiful. There are a lot of benefits of live plants for the tank and aquarium fish. They are helpful to take care of a healthy and clean aquarium. Live plants add oxygen to the water and assist in maintaining the chemistry within the water. These plants provide hidden places for the fry and good bacteria to survive. These bacteria are subsidiary for breaking down fish wastes and uneaten aliment. At first, the survival rate will be low. But after some time more and more fry will bear and the adult fish will get used to the fry swimming around them.