Swordtails easy Tropical Fish
Interested in starting a tropical fish aquarium for your home the best fish to start out with would actually be the swordtail fish. They come in many verity of colors and shapes even tail styles including 2 swords.
When I was younger I got my first fish tank a small 10 gallon since that is all I was allowed to have in my dorm at college. With just the basic manual and of course everything you needed for the fish tank I set up the tank. Not knowing what fish to get I look around and say that fish is cool or pretty, and then pick another fish. The store clerk would say that those 2 types of fish would not get along. Then I was looking around and noticed the swordtails, I thought the males looked cool, I even picked out there names of course they where knightly or warrior names since they had swords, cute. So I got 6 male swordtails and 2 female swordtails also 2 snails to clean the fish tank that day and brought them back to the dorm. The sword tails lived and multiplied “o’boy did they multiply”, I had given some back swordtail fries to the pet shop. They would reproduce so often the pet shop would stop taking the swordtail fries from me and so I would donate the swordtail fry to the science department to my college. I was hoping they did not cut them open but I could not keep all the swordtail fry. HINT: (Well know I know you could actually sell tropical fish back to a pet store so try it out if you buy swordtails.) So a conclusion is that breeding swordtails are very easy.
Of course being a college student and having a relatively active social and academic life. I would not have time to maintain the tank as well as I could to keep majority of species of tropical fish alive. But my swordtails actually lived through almost 4 years of college and that included massive travel back home from my college dorms. So the swordtail is a very tough fish. As the same time I had other tropical fish such as mollies, neon tetras, and actually paty, which at the time I bought them I thought they where female swordtails. So the tropical swordtail is a very tough fish and low maintaince. Warning mollies which are brickfish which need a teaspoon of salt, which I learned later and they died quickly.
Swordfish information stats;
Minimum Tank Size: 10 gallons
Care Level: Very Easy
Tank Conditions: 64-82°F; pH 7.0-8.3; KH 12-30
Max. Size In Aquarium: Up to 4″
Color Form: Orange, Black Nubian, Marigold, Neons, Pineapple, Red Velvet, Red Wag
Temperament: Peaceful
Diet: Omnivore
Origin: Farm Raised, Singapore
Family: Poeciliidae
Tags: swordtails, tropical swordtails
