heather84

My platy fry is almost 2 months old. We had 5 and I have released all but 1 into my big tank. The ones I have released are doing great. However the one I still have in the breeder is extremly small. Hes active and likes to eat hes just a runt.

1.) Is there anything I can do/give my runt to help him grow faster. He eats every few hours (just like the other ones did when they were in the breeder)

2.) The fry dont have any color yet they are just pale white but they do have there black fins (sooo cute) mom is orange, a little white and some black---dont know about dad. When should my babies get color?

3.) Im sure that they will inbreed correct since they are all in the same tank? So the mother will breed with the fry? At what age will this start to occur?

and last but not least lol

4.) When should I be able to tell the sex of the fry?

Nick Goody

Hi heather, to answer your questions...............

1. Regular waterchanges and feeding will be the best things to help your fry grow. I feed my fry 5 times a day.
2. Platy fry are born with their colours, if they're white now, they'll be white when they grow up.
3.Yes, they will all interbreed, this will start as soon as the males mature and develop the'r gonopodium which should happen around 3-4 months.
4.See 3!

Tony G.

Nick covered it all

heather84

they were totally white.....they just now got the black...so i figured they would soon get there normal colors.

I hope they dont stay white lol they look funny....cute but funny lol momma is a sunburst wag so i was hoping they would look like her. I wasnt aware they were born with there colors

Nick Goody

They might get some spots of colour as they get older, and their fins often colour up a bit, but their base colour will remain the same. If they were going to be Sunburst they would have been born orange. Maybe their dad was white?

heather84

im not sure.....i only had 1 platy (the mother) and my male molly chased her around like crazy but inless a miracle happen she was pregnant when we got her. The only other fish in her tank at the store was other sunburst. and when we first found the babies they were orange.