Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => New Fishkeepers => Topic started by: Bubblychaz on September 10, 2015, 07:32:21 PM
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Hi all.
One of my female Platy have been in the breeding tank since this last night (She was acting weird).
So shes in the hatchery breeding box thing, In my spare 19L tank.
About 2:30pm this afternoon I noticed she had 3 fry in the lower part of the breeding box hatchery thing.
Shes still fat, her belly is still silver and the dark spot near her anal fin is still there, Just no more babies since 2:30.
She isnt just "hovering", She kind of butt in the air slightly swimming backwards for a few minutes then hovers, then does it again, Shes done this since I noticed at 2:30.
Has she finished having babies? Is she stressed? What do I do?
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I would let her out. Those small boxes do stress the mother, and stressed females can hang on to fry.
And if you try to save all the fry you'll be knee deep in platies in no time. If you have dense plants (ie plants with lots of close leaves) whether real or plastic, some fry will survive.
Female platies have lots of fry on a monthly basis - and even with no males they can have fry for several months as females can store sperm.
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Will the Babies get sucked up the filter?
So Ill put her back in the 30L tank with the other fish? Or let her stay in the 19L (There are plants in there but I fear she'll get lonely)
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Leave her in the 19 litre till tomorrow. The males in the other tank (assuming you have some) will start pestering her straight away so she needs time out after giving birth. She might even have more fry by then.
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Ok Sure. Will go let her out now