Scientific name:
Xiphophorus maculatus

Natural spread:
southern Mexico, Guatemala

the Xiphophorus maculatus lives in the middle water-regions of your aquarium. The basin-length of the aquarium should amount to at least 40 cm for these fish. A Platy, Spiegelcarp-fish, breeding-forms with many names is peaceful in the mormalfall. The male gains a length of about. 4 cm, the female becomes up to 6 cm long.

Attitude: Optimal-proof prevail water-temperatures of 18 to 25 °C in the aquarium. The pH-area should amount to 0.0. The attitude of these fish in the aquarium is unproblematic.

Differentiation of the sexes: Males small, with Gonopodium, sometimes more colorfully, with wild-form-similar types)

Natural spread: Atlantic-side of Mexico and Guatemala, northern waters of Honduras