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Related FAQs: Swordtails 1,
Swordtails 2,
Swordtail Identification,
Swordtail Behavior,
Swordtail Compatibility, Swordtail Selection,
Swordtail Systems,
Swordtail Feeding, Swordtail Disease,
Swordtail Reproduction, &
Livebearers
in General, Poeciliids,
Guppies, Platies, Swordtails,
Mollies, Goodeids, Anablepids, Livebearer
Identification, Livebearer Behavior,
Livebearer Compatibility,
Livebearer Selection,
Livebearer Systems,
Livebearer Feeding,
Livebearer Disease,
Livebearer Reproduction,
Related Articles:
Poeciliids: Guppies, Platies, Swordtails, Mollies
by Neale Monks
Mollies, Platies,
Guppies,
&
Livebearing Fishes
by Bob Fenner,
Anablepids (Four-Eyes),
Goodeids, Halfbeaks
(Hemiramphrids)
/A Diversity of Aquatic
Life
Livebearing
Fishes for Aquariums and Not
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Swordtails: Xiphophorus helleri
| Xiphophorus helleri Heckel 1848, the (Green)
Swordtail . North and Central America; Rio Nantla, Veracruz in Mexico to
northwestern Honduras. Many varieties; popular freshwater aquarium fish. To
14 cm. in length. Cond.s pH 7-8, dH 9-19, temp. 25-27 C. Female and
male of Black variety at right. Best kept in trios of one male to two (or
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| Red Velvet male |
Brick Red female |
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| Green male |
Red & White male |
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| Neon Red male |
Xanthic variety female |
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| Neon male |
Sunset male |
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| Hifin Lyretail Black male |
Hifin Lyretail Marigold female |
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| Hifin Fantail Tangerine female |
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