red eye red swordtail

A red-eye red swordtail. This one is female with a lyertail and sailfin.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• red
• eyed
• swordtail
• aquatic
• fish
• livebearer

[GhillieSniper115]

That's a very hard fish to breed considering u need to breed a molly w swordtail then lyre w swordtail and lastly the two hybrids

[mikaila31]

@GhillieSniper115 Mollies and swordtails can not interbreed. They are from two different genus. Swordtails and platies can interbreed though. As far as the hobby goes I would consider any common tank-strain of swordtail or platy as a hybrid since its unlikely that they are any particular true species. That is unless you are dealing with wild-type fishes. But for the ones you see at petsmart a vast amount of them are hybrids really. Not 50/50 hybrids but 90/10.

[Srinivazen1]

this is a male

[mikaila31]

@Srinivazen1 Its actually a female, the lyertails can be confusing sometimes. She has a long anal fin, but it is still fan shaped like a females should be. Males of this type have a long feathery anal fin.

[ochoacool]

looks like a betta

[ghettoutlaw]

yeah i thought it was a siamese fighter at first, nice

[drball57]

where do you find these

[DOX9500]

gorgeous :3

[wergrethe]

I bought a lyertail fish once, it's tail is longer than this one, when it swims it looks like a phoenix.

[diesesmadchen]

she's beautiful

[Xenoxander]

wow! Gimmy!

[takadi]

holy crap look at the dorsal finnage