Here are the questions I need help with...
How long do they live?
How big do they get?
How often do they give birth?
Life birth or eggs?
Are they all male, all female, or both?
Do they mate?
What do they eat beside Mosquitos?
How many babys do they have?
Thanks for your time and please help me!!!!!! The best you can its ok if you can only answer one question just help!!!!!!
2007-06-26 08:52:25 · 5 answers · asked by rjheslop@sbcglobal.net 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/mosq.htm
Everything you asked for and more.
I love google search.
2007-06-26 08:58:40 · answer #1 · answered by Theresa A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. 2-3 years normally, some times a bit longer
2. Females are much larger than males and can get as large as 2" Males normally about 1.25"
3. about every 28 days, it can vary as much as 2 weeks depending on many factors.
4. Livebearers.
5. There are both male and female mosquito fish.
6. Any small bugs commonly found in the water. In tanks you can feed brine shrimp, mosquito larvae ( of course) and slowly get them to eat flake food.
7. Usually about 20-30, but spawns of over 100 have been recorded many times.
By the way, for your searches in the future, their scientific name is Gambusia affinis and they are a very close relative of the guppy.
Hope that helps
MM
2007-06-26 09:07:29 · answer #2 · answered by magicman116 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mosquito fish are very much like guppies. They both eat the same types of food. They are both livebearer. They give birth about every 28 days and they have both male and female fry. They get to be about the same size as guppies. Mine have had up to 30 fry at one time. I've had mine for a little over 5 years now.
2007-06-26 09:17:03 · answer #3 · answered by fishbarn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure how long they live. They don't get much more than 1 inch to 1-1/2 inches long at most. There are both males and females. They breed like crazy, are livebearers and have tons of offspring. They eat mosquito midges - the larvae that float on top of the surface of water, not the mosquitos themselves. Not sure what else they eat but our tadpoles all disappeared when they were introduced to our pond, so I suspect frog and fish eggs and small tadpoles might be in their diet. We got rid of ours finally after a pond cleaning (sold them back to the pond store for a credit) because 4 of them led to 75 offspring in one season and they became a nuisance.
2007-06-26 08:56:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they only want to Suck You Neck
2007-06-26 08:56:02 · answer #5 · answered by thornrez1 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋