COBettaCouple

This afternoon, one of our 2 Ameca Splendens females dropped her first fry. She's only 5 months old, so she did really good to drop 5 fry. If you aren't familiar with them, the Amecas have 1 batch of fry per pregnancy and the fry are born BIG.. about an inch long.

The little ones are doing great, they've had 2 meals already and 4 still have their umbilical cords attached, but probably hard to make that out in the pics.

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COBettaCouple

more pics of the hours old fry:

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Lucy

They are so cute! Congratulations! At what age do you need to separate them from each other?

COBettaCouple

They don't really need to be seperated. The larger ones don't try to eat the new fry with them being around an inch when they're dropped.

Dino

Most goodieds do better with the fry kept with them.
They are more a schooling fish than most other livebearers.

COBettaCouple

Yea, one of the fry has been trying to hang with the bigger amecas, even when he was hours old, at most. That's how I first spotted the fry actually. He didn't blend in exactly.

mes5westies

Very nice. Thanks for Sharing the pictures with me. I love itl

corylover

congrats on the fry. they are big. I have a ton of platy fry and they are so small not like yours. even the one molly fry isnt that big. congrats

COBettaCouple

Yea, Ameca Splendens have some really big fry. The newborn fry are the size of our Endlers adults.

corylover

wow thats really neat. my platy fry are so small they are really hard to see. the molly fry look huge compared to them but now that I've seen yours mine look so small. congrats again.