Swordtail
Xiphophorus hellerii
What it needs
- Grows to
- 10 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 150 L, at least 90 cm long
- Temperature
- 22 to 28 °C
- pH
- 7 to 8.4
- Hardness
- 12 to 30 dGH
- Kept in
- groups of 3 or more
- Temperament
- semi-aggressive
- Eats
- omnivore
- Swims
- at every level
- How hard
- easy
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether swordtail fit the tank you have.