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This video shows several Sword Tails living in an aquarium with lots of live aquatic plants. You can see at least two mature males with swords on the end of their tails. Mature females don't have swords.
Here is a young male Swordtail nibbling on the algae growing on a Aponogeton Plant.
This video shows a young male Red Velvet Swordtail.
A male Neon Wag Tail Sword.
A Swordtails with a black tail is called a Wag Tail.
A male Neon Swordtail.
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Scientific
Name:
Xiphophorus
helleri
The
video
above
shows
a mature
male
Neon
Swordtail.
You
can
see
his
sword
projecting
to the
left
from
the
bottom
of his
tail
fin.
Male
Swordtails
develop
swords
as they
mature
but
females
do not
develop
swords
on their
fins.
This
makes
it very
easy
to tell
a mature
male
Swordtail
from
a mature
female.
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Shown
above,
a baby
Swordtail
swimming
among
some
pieces
of Java
Moss
plant.
Swordtails
are
easy
to spawn,
and
the
babies
are
fun
to raise.
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here
for
information
about
how
to raise
baby
Mollies,
which
are
very
similar
to baby
Swordtails.
Comments
Swordtails
are
available
in many
color
varieties.
Swordtails
are
livebearers
like
Guppies,
Mollies,
and
Platies.
Swordtails
are
easy
to breed,
though
not
quite
as easy
as Mollies.
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here
for
more
about
breeding
Mollies
and
raising
the
babies.
Here is a male Sword Tail just like the Sword Tails for sale at our online tropical fish store. We have many different kinds of Swords. Click here to see the list with many kinds of Sword Tails for sale from us.
Here is a picture of a beautiful male Sword Tail. This variety of Sword Tail is called a Red Sword Tail, but you can see he is really bright orange and not red. There are really dark red Sword Tails.
The white arrow in this picture points at this young male Swordtail's gonopodium, which is a modified fin that females do not have. This male's sword is just beginning to develop at the end of his tail.
Here is a picture of a beautiful female Sword Tail. You can see that she does not have a sword, and you can see that she does not have a gonopodium like the male in the picture above her.
Appropriate
Home
In an
aquarium
with
at least
15 gallons
of water,
an
External
Power
Filter
with
a BIO-Wheel,
1/4
inch
or less
of
gravel,
and
an
Aquarium
Heater
adjusted
to between
78 and
82 degrees
F. Click
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for
more
about
warm
water
aquariums.
Like
most
livebearers
Swordtails
will
do better
with
1 Tablespoon
of Aquarium
Salt
per
5 gallons
of water.
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here
for
more
about
Aquarium
Salt.
Recommended
Diet
Floating
flake
food
plus
freeze
dried
blood
worms,
which
are
actually
mosquito
larvae.
Both
of these
foods
are
sold
in most
stores
that
sell
pet
fish.
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here
for
more
about
feeding
fish.
I feed
all
livebearers
a few
Black
Worms
every
other
day.
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here
for
more
about
Black
Worms.
Compatibility
Like
all
livebearers
Swordtails
live
best
in a
group
with
a few
male
Swordtails
and
several
females.
Swordtails
are
good
tank
mates
for
Mollies,
Platies,
Angels,
Corydoras
Catfish,
Plecostomus,
and
Bigger
Tetras
such
as Black
Skirts,
Red
Serpaes,
and
Silver
Tips.
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here
to read
more
about
several
other
groups
of compatible
fish.
Picture
Gallery
of Swordtails
Shown
above,
four
pictures
of
the
"new"
Kohaku
(Koi)
Swordtails.
The
varying
patterns
of
bright
orange
and
white
on
these
males
resemble
the
patterns
on
the
famous
Kohaku
Koi.
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Swordtails
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this.
Above,
two
pictures
of
the
same
female
Kohaku
(Koi)
Swordtail
female.
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Above,
a
young
mature
male
Showa
(Koi)
Swordtail.
This
"new"
Swordtail
color
variety
is
named
after
the
famous
Showa
Koi
with
a
similar
pattern.
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Swordtails
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this.
Above,
a
female
Showa
(Koi)
Swordtail.
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Swordtails
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this.
Shown
just
above
a
Hifin Lyretail
Red Eye Red
Swordtail, which is the reddest color variety of Swordtails that
we've
ever
seen
!
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Swordtails
like
this.
Above,
a
young
mature male
Black
Swordtail.
Well
he is
more
than
black;
he
has
a
metallic
blue
sheen,
which
is
extremely
nice.
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here
to
buy
Swordtails
like
this.
Above,
a
young
mature
female
Black
Swordtail.
Like
the male above, she
too
is
more
than
black
with
some nice metallic
blue
markings.
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here
to
buy
Swordtails
like
this.
Above, another young mature female Black Swordtail, which is different from the female above her.
Above, Marigold Swordtails. Notice the neon green markings on the side of the fish in the lower picture. There seems to be no end of the color variations in Swordtails.
Above top, a nice young male Red Eye Hifin Swordtail, and below a female. Dazzling red coloration on this variety.
Just above, a nice young energetic male Neon Swordtail.
Shown just above, two more nice young female Swordtails. Though rather plain looking both of these fish are energetic, inquisitive, and lots of fun to watch. ;^ }
Size
and
Life
Span
Swordtails
have
a life
span
of 3
to 5
years
and
can
grow
to 5".
Sometimes
they
have
lived
longer
and
grown
bigger.
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