Platies Forever Pregnant? Not Reducing In Size After Giving Birth?

I have had two Platies give birth 1 week after each other around 10-20 fry each - the mothers still looked big so kept them on and off in two separate breeding traps. Fry are now in a separate smaller tank and the mothers are now in the main tank out of their breeding traps and are still very large 2 weeks and counting after giving birth. They never went noticeably smaller after giving birth - it is like they are constantly pregnant.

I have one part of my tank full of Cabomba plants set up in case they give birth for the fry to hide. I do not want to forever harrass the females in and out of breeding traps - just wondered if anyone knows why the mothers are still large and have never reduced in size after giving birth? Not sure what is my best option.

Thank you.

platies reduce size a couple of hours after birth if she has not then she could be just fat or she may have more fry to give birth to but this is not likely.

I fully understand what you are saying TT. My molly breeder female will drop an average of 30 fry but looks like this less than 8 hours after a drop.



Without the before picture to compare her, I would think that she had stayed huge but with pictures the difference is obvious, at least to me.

Holy cow the same thing happened to me! She gave birth, i found 7 fry in the tank(a very small number, i know... but she sadly might of been hungry) and they left her in there for like, 12 more hours. I didn't find anymore, and she appeared to be done. So i set her back in the tank. She had a very sharp drop from the front, but in the back its a sleek gradual rise. I swear she wasn't even so fat before i put her in the breeding tank! I am posting before and after pictures of her. i guess she might just be fat because there isn't a noticable gravid spot. Does yours look close to mine?

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After pictures:

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After pictures:

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Yes, my 2 female Platies probably look bigger than when they were giving birth - go figure? Swimming around with huge bellies looking like they are going to drop any minute, though this has been the case for over 2 weeks since giving birth!

hmm...I never had a problem like that before but maybe they are just fat or had eaten too much,or maybe she is still having babies.