Origins: Central America
Size: three inches
Diet: prepared foods and small live foods.
Water: temperature seventy to seventy-five degrees F; hard
(one hundred to one hundred and fifty mg/l) and alkaline of pH = seven point five.
Temperament: males are often quarrelsome, good community fish.
Breeding: easy to breed livebearer. Up to two-hundred offspring. Offspring should be separated from adults as they will be eaten. If a pure line is desired, they should not be mixed with other lines of swordtails or with platys as they will interbreed. Gestation period thirty to fourty days.
Gender: males are characterized by their distinctive long lower sword tail. Females have a well rounded tail and are typically larger than males. Males have a gonopodium.
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