<P> Live - bearing aquarium fish, often simply called livebearers, are fish that retain the eggs inside the body and give birth to live, free - swimming young . Among aquarium fish, livebearers are nearly all members of the Poeciliidae family and include guppies, mollies, platies and swordtails . </P> <P> The advantages of livebearing to the aquarist are that the newborn juvenile fish are larger than newly - hatched fry, have a lower chance of mortality and are easier to care for . Unusual livebearers include seahorses and pipefish, where the males care for the young, and certain cichlids that are mouthbrooders, with the parent incubating the eggs in the buccal cavity . </P>

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