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| Sounds great...I am glad you were able to find healthy speciemens for the pond. I am sure as they get use to the pond and the population grows you will start seeing them more and more. How many did you end up starting with?
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| I ended up with 1 green male swordtail as read males dont like each other though lots room intime will have few males anyway than 2 red F swordtails - 2 female red/yellow platies 2 f dalamation platies and 2 gold platies They hide among the plants but see them during feeding and if I hang out by the pond and watch after awhile I see them. The cory cat idea sounded great as I love them but the water is beyond cichlid high ph not to mention the corycats at petstore in area (only petstore in hours drive) are deplorable and not a single fish club in Miami
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| Found lots of babies this evening some hiding by the cattatils most hiding by the dwarf papyrus. I imagine one of the females was pregnant when purchased. I left them in the pond as impossible to catch . All are on the surface Lots plants so some should survive without getting eaten Either way the adults have all adapted and gotten very big in short time .
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Yes most of the time when you get a female livebearer (unless they were seperated before 4-6 months of age) she will be pregenant. It has been a while since I have dealt with livebearers (actually with freshwater in general), but if I remember correctly once a female has become impregnated, she is basically impregnated for quite some time. The females will actual store the sperm from one mating and it will keep fertilizing eggs a few times. She will then have babies every 4-6 weeks. So expect to see more babies in the near future.
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When I was a kid my Grandfather's neighbor had an outdoor pond with Mollies, Platies, Guppies and Swordfish. He did not have a heater, during the Winter the fish would thin out, in the Summer he would have to give fish away. When it got real cold he'd throw plastic and a blanket over the pond supported by stakes. By the way he lived in Jacksonville, Fla. Also he used to separate the fish to keep them from inter-breeding. Had these wood boxes for the babies that they could swim in and out of for protection.
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| During the chilly nights and there were many. I plug in the submersible heater I keep in the pond . Its set at 70 and the fish actually gather within 1 foot radius of it. Right now I have a zillion babies . I do get night visitors of garter snakes and ringneck snakes which think take babies or maybe few adults. I just gave away about 50 babies as in last 2 weeks had a fish "explosion" now that warm weather is here imagine babies will be non stop as Dec/Jan close to no babies compared to last 2 weeks. I imagine your grandfather covered it as the soil does hold heat and cold night the pond will stay warmer with the cover thats a great idea in my case to many plants growing out of the pond thus not possible but the heater set for 70 kept the fish fine . I have dragonfly larvae in there now and remove them if I see them but again to many plants nothing I can do but those do bother me the other predators dont .
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I was over at a friends house this weekend and they had three layers of bubble wrap floating on their hotub. If you did this I'd put vent pipes thru the bubble wrap so the pond can vent gasses off.
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| Mollies and guppies are good picks, too. Make sure that your filters and pumps are well covered so the fry doesn't get sucked into them. You can add a pleco for algae control. I have used impatients as floating plants. I poked holes into a foam meat tray and stuck impatients in the holes. You can also use marigolds, false dragons' head, spider plants, chameleon flower and plothos. Most Iris and cannas, taros, cardinal flower, can also be planted in pots and do well in the pond. I'd love to worry about water going below 70 degrees, my pond freeze solid every winter. Good luck, Gail
Sincerely, Gail Hopkins
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