Will any fry survive in this tank?

Platy fry to be exact

 

Probably not, no. If you want them to survive add thick plants near the surface and grind up some of the adults' food. A breeding net is a really good idea, or even a separate tank. Beautiful tank, btw, and welcome to Fishlore!
If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask!

 

Always possible, but gourami and neons will eat them if they find them.

 

I would say no. Your other fish will be prone to eating the fry unless you have lots of hiding spaces and plants.

You can also get a breeding net ( I use a flexible mesh one ) that sells for about $5.00 at petsmart or amazon. I would recommend that if you plan on raising the fry - you can keep them in there for a few weeks until they get big enough to not fit in anyones mouth!
I have baby plecos in mine at the moment.

 

Idk what to do, I only have this one 20 gallon and if I raise the fry then they'll overstock my tank... Or will they?

Current Stock:

1x Dwarf Gourami
1x Guppy
3x Platies
8x Neon Tetras
3x Ghost Shrimps
1x Mystery Snail

 

Idk what to do, I only have this one 20 gallon and if I raise the fry then they'll overstock my tank... Or will they?

Current Stock:

1x Dwarf Gourami
1x Guppy
3x Platies
8x Neon Tetras
3x Ghost Shrimps
1x Mystery Snail

More than likely you will overstock with the fry. But the root of the problem is, if you don't have means to care or have the fry, you need to separate the male and female platies as they will continue to breed prolifically. Each female platy can have a dozen or more babies each time and in a relatively short time.

You can also let nature "take its course" and leave the fry as is but no guarantee that you will get rid of all your fry.

 

Idk what to do, I only have this one 20 gallon and if I raise the fry then they'll overstock my tank... Or will they?

Current Stock:

1x Dwarf Gourami
1x Guppy
3x Platies
8x Neon Tetras
3x Ghost Shrimps
1x Mystery Snail

Bro, they will be fine. I keep hello fish in my 40ish bowfront, I have zero floating plants, I didn't even own any bush plants until last week.
In this specific tank I have..
6 female swords
1 male sword
10 neon tetras
6 amino shrimp
Possibly 1 cherry shrimp?
3 clown lochs
2 twig catfish
1 butterfly loach
2 Cory cats
1 male patty
And one female guppy patty hybrid that is pregnant.

I get new baby drops on a weekly or biweekly basis, I have yet to have a clutch with zero survivors.
I will post some pics for you.
What seems to matter the most is not the fish in the tank or the plants, it has to do with the babies having the same base color as the substrate. They will hide in gravle.

 

I know the pics are bad my camera is junk......you can see a baby chilling on the head of the twig catfish.

The orange babies are pushing two weeks old maybe three.




The smaller whitish babies are less then a week old.

Not pictured in the tank are other babies that range from a month old to about two months. They freely swim with the adults. The small Orange ones swim with the adults, no one messes with them.
The adults do attempt to chase the white fish but I've never seen one get eaten, they get lost on the gravle. I'm sure they get popped now and again though, it's nature.




Here are more babies I'd guess four months maybe? They are all about an inch long and strangely all female, I have never had a single male survive.
In the 20 gal grow out tank I keep 5 Cory cats and a bumble bee catfish. Again, I've never had a fish go missing in that tank. I had two fish die, but no clue from what. I would approximate that I have about 100+ baby swords of all sizes. They honestly take care of themselves, as long as you feed the adults heavy and throw in a second portion ground up as fine as possible.

Maybe I'm the only one here with this experiance, but if I take new born fish out of the tank they suffer 100% mortality rates, if I keep them in the tank till they school with the adukts, about 3 weeks to a month, I suffer what I would estimate is maybe a 20 to 30 percent mortality rate. Again that's a rough estimation as its not possible to count every baby, a week ago I planted it so heavy that I can't see through it on one side, those extra rocks I threw in on the side are 4 days old, I just added them like caves so my lochs could hide out a little and escape the chaos of the rest of the tank.

 

Just gave them some blood worms and the babies came out to play, the adults didn't even notice.
even the other species of fish ignore the babies. I don't know if it's just because of heavy feedings, my theory is that the fish are actually just to stupid to understand that they are small enough to eat.
I have so many babies of various sizes that the grownup fish swim with teenaged fish, and the biggest babies swim with the teenage fish, so they see the same color pattern and they know to swim with it, they are just use to the concept of them schooling. So they don't see them as food.

 

Hi! I wouldn't go with the breeder net because it's not enough space for the fry to grow out. It's ok if you only keep them in for about a week or so, but if you keep them in for longer it could stunt their growth. I think you should add more plants/hiding spaces in the back of your tank and you should be fine.

 

Breeder nets shouldn't stunt growth (At least not in my experience) because they have a healthy water flow. If you have a bunch of babies of differing ages in a small tank with each other, that will stunt growth. But as long as the water stays fresh, babies can grow in a net without an issue. I kept them in there for two months before I let them out in the main tank.
Guppy Horses is right, though, more plants is definitely a good idea. A breeder net is just an option, it's not the only way. Honestly, more plants is probably the best and most beautiful option.