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Live-bearing aquarium fish and spawn aquarium fish

Live-bearing aquarium fish, often simply called live bearers,are fish that retain the eggs inside the body and give birth to live,free-swimming young. Because the newborn fish are relatively large,typically around 10 mm in length, they are easier to feed than newlyhatched fry of egg-laying species such as characins and cichlids. This makes them much easier to raise. In addition, being much bigger theyare also far less vulnerable to predation, and are often able to swimand hide effectively even in quite densely stocked community tanks.Livebearers are consequently among the very first fish aquarists areable to breed