I was talking to a friend on the phone and I was watching the fish in my wifes 50 gallon when I noticed a small white thing dart into the plants. I kept looking to see what it was and it was a baby. I told my wife and she started looking all over the tank for more. I noticed that one of the female swordtails was pregnant a day prior to finding the baby. I was going to get a breeding net to save some of the fry, but I hadn't gotten to the pet store to get it. The pregnant swordtail was acting a little strange and staying near the bottom of a heavily planted corner of the tank. I told my wife to watch her while I go get a net. My wife watched her push out 3 babies like a fully automatic rifle. I scooped her up in one net and I started fishing for babies with the other. The other fish seemed like they were prowling for fry. They were all in that same corner. The female didn't want to have her babies in the net so I had to let her go. She went to the same spot and and pushed out 3 or 4 more babies. So now I have one net resting on the top of the tank with babies in it and I'm catching babies with the other. I caught all but one baby. The one remaining baby still hangs out in that corner. The other babies spent a couple days in a catch net until I got to the pet store to get the breeder net. We now have about 15 babies and the lyretail sword is pregnant. I got another breeder net for her or for the BN eggs, which ever comes first.

live bearer births are fascinating to watch. i still remember the 1st time i saw sword-tails and guppies pop out little miniature versions of themselves that start swimming as soon as they hit the water.

good luck with rescuing all the babies.

All the babies went into the 20 gallon to mature a bit. I also have a new L in with them.

Cathryns Black Mollies had a few littlies, but they were out playing 'chicken' with the Angels ! I only managed to save two, of the six I'd seen, and that was only by shoving my arm into the tank, to physically push a couple of Angels aside.

Oh look ready meal to go

Now thats taking 'drive thru' to another level.

Nothing like fish N chips on the go.

One of the little Mollies was near the surface, right up at the front glass. The Angels were all down checking out the gravel, for any left-overs for lunch. You know how Angels just have this way of gliding in any direction. Three of them rose straight up, a slow vertical drift. Came up equally spaced around this Molly.

No-one moved for a bit, then the Molly made a quick dart, only an inch or two, and the Angels all spun in that direction, then stilled. That's when I dove to the tank. I knew if that Molly so much as twitched, he was gone. So shoved my arm in, right down the middle.

10 minutes later, the stupid beggars were up at the front of the tank again. So I netted them, and popped them in the other tank.