Feeding Platy Fries

You can get fry food, I think it is called liquid fry, they do a special one for live bearers as they tend to be bigger than normal fry.

When one of my Platies gave birth I originally thought the fry were all eaten except for 1 but about 3 weeks later when doing a water change I discovered another 6.  My tank is quite well planted and I don't have any large fish, the platies are probably the largest so that helped them survive I think. 

They had just been eating finely ground fish flakes nothing special as I didn't know they were there.

The fry are about 5 weeks old now and are about 7mm.  They spend most of their time hiding still but come out at feeding time.  They can also swim very fast if they think they are in danger.

When deciding to return them to the main tank I think you need to think about the amount of cover available to them and how big the other fish in the tank are.

Wow, that's quite a few considering some were eaten before you moved their mother into the isolation tank.

I think I read somewhere that the fry will mature when they are between 5 and 6 months old.

yeah and spot the idiot.................... I read the wrong names. Sorry Anne, and Chris. what I said is right though just got a bit muddled! lol