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Strange but all the gambusia that I have had have had live young ones .I have even cut one open and counted them ,there was fifty.

+1...i used to breed them for my pet Barra

Gambusia are live-bearers guys - the eggs hatch inside the female and they give birth to live, free-swimming young. There's no eggs as such, to dry out.

I don't doubt what you heard Simo, but it musta been a another sort of fish.

Still no pics

A neighbor fully drained their pond and let it dry for a week before refilling in an attempt to get rid of what they thought were gambusia, one month later the fish were back, maybe not gambusia then

OR...someones playing a joke on them

hey does the wife do dishes

Simo your not the only one that heard that story, I had some in my first pond many yrs ago I supplied from my local lake and I kept losing my fantails every time I put em in, I asked the aquarium shop and they told me the gambesia attack in groups like piranhas, and that I needed to empty the pond and scrub it thoroughly to make sure there are no eggs. weather its just the name of the fish that is wrong but the little things from the local lake will have to do.

gambusia are also called mosquitoe fish and they are a cold water variety of guppies. The females are twice the size of the males to allow for live birth and i find it hard to belive that anyone could mistake them for sp, thats like comparing a shark with a dolphin because they both have a dorsal fin. I want photos....

Did you end up finding out whether they bred?

-K98