Sam Livingston

Currently have 8 pregnant platy's, 3 of which will pop any minute. 2 of the pregnant ones are blue mickey mouse platy's, 2 are neon green platy's (which have been trying to get forever since someone posted about the green neon's, to my great surprise had them at my local pet store), 1 is red wag tail platy, 1 is unknown type which I call USA platy (red,white, and blue), 2 are gold calico's (gold, white, and black). I forgot about my constant impatience since the last one gave birth. I can't take my eyes off of tank and just want to squeeze them to make the babies come out already! (kidding of course, but awfully tempting

Chief_waterchanger

lol, congrats on the platy breeding!

COBettaCouple

wow - you'll be swimming in fry soon!

Sam Livingston

Yea I'm pretty excited, I'll have to pictures soon the neon green platy's are beautiful; green and gold mixed.

COBettaCouple

yea, those will be beautiful platy fry!

susitna-flower

Do you have them all in the same tank? Just wondering if you will try to keep the varieties seperate?

By now you should have fry, how are they doing?

skinny64

hi my platys just had babies i have them in a seperate net i think there is about 6 would i feed them straight away or leave them help this is my first fry last week another one had babies and all the other fish ate them

COBettaCouple

they'll usually start eating around a few days after being dropped. sometimes sooner. the ideal thing is a grow-out tank with a sponge filter and submersible heater, but they like crushed food at first.. powder really.

zerotona

That will be alot of platies. Do you have a picture of the red, white and blue platy? I don't think there's enough fish with blue on them.

swords3711

Platys are very prolific breeders. It proably will happen again. I had 4 different fish pop on the same day.