Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => New Fishkeepers => Topic started by: Aquamaid on November 28, 2014, 09:52:17 AM
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I want to buy about 8 white cloud mountain minnows, to put in with my platy's i know they are cold water fish, and i will be asking my Lfs what temp they are kept at, just wondered if anyone keeps em at about 23 c oh and can you mix the white with the gold ones sucessfully ?
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I had white clouds many years ago. This was before I knew any better and I had them at 25 deg. I think the main problem with keeping them too warm is that it shortens their life cycle. It sort of makes them run too fast and burn themselves out.
Both they and platies would be fine at 23 deg.
Not sure what you mean by white and gold, they are usually described as being grey and gold. But yes, the two forms can be kept together. They are the same species so three of one colour, three of the other would behave like six of the same. A bit like having red platies and yellow platies :D
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Great stuff, thanks Sue, are they easy to sex, so i can have all males, don't want any tiddlers lol
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we have kept them at room temperature which
is normally between 18 to 21 as they are temperate
fish
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It is very unlikely you'll ever have tiny tiddlers in a tank with platies. White clouds are egg scatterers; the platies and most likely the white clouds themselves will eat the eggs before they get chance to hatch. Even if some eggs end up where the fish can't get at them the fry are very tiny - I know, I deliberately bred them when I had them - and when they hatch and come out of whatever crevice the eggs were in, the fry won't last long. I bred them in my quarantine tank and had to remove the adults as soon as the eggs were laid to get fry.
Besides, you'll see their natural behaviour with males and females.
Platies are OK down to 20 deg C so 21 to 22 might the temp to aim for.
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Great stuff thanks all :) Iv'e been and bought,four white cloud minnows, two long fin, two short, mainly cos longfins are lot dearer lol i will be adding another four soon though, they are in their bags as we speak so fingers crossed they are happy :)