Vlowman
New Member
Hello,
I've just had a shock - or at least as much of one as three tiny fish babies can produce - when I spotted them in my theoretically all male platy tank.
The context here, however, is that a couple of months ago I got two platies, knowing nothing about sexing them. When I realised that I had a male and female, and that I could end up with an out of control fish population, I returned the obvious female to the pet store exactly one week ago and came back with what I believed to be males based on:
So I now have three moderately sized theoretically male platies... But also three babies.
How could this have happened? Is there any chance that they were left with me a week ago by the now departed female and were just too small to notice for a week (I find this somewhat hard to believe unless they are practically microscopic to begin with - given they still look tiny and semi transparent now)? Or is one of my fish a female with a weird looking anal fin?
Here is a photo of the two with the most convincing gonopodiums:
And here are some of the other one (dark orange) that I'm now suspecting may be a secret female based on a smaller-than-the-other-two-thing-that-might-or-might-not-be-a-gonopodium!
One person I've shown these pictures to thinks all three are males, but I'd be grateful for more views.
I've just had a shock - or at least as much of one as three tiny fish babies can produce - when I spotted them in my theoretically all male platy tank.
The context here, however, is that a couple of months ago I got two platies, knowing nothing about sexing them. When I realised that I had a male and female, and that I could end up with an out of control fish population, I returned the obvious female to the pet store exactly one week ago and came back with what I believed to be males based on:
So I now have three moderately sized theoretically male platies... But also three babies.
How could this have happened? Is there any chance that they were left with me a week ago by the now departed female and were just too small to notice for a week (I find this somewhat hard to believe unless they are practically microscopic to begin with - given they still look tiny and semi transparent now)? Or is one of my fish a female with a weird looking anal fin?
Here is a photo of the two with the most convincing gonopodiums:
And here are some of the other one (dark orange) that I'm now suspecting may be a secret female based on a smaller-than-the-other-two-thing-that-might-or-might-not-be-a-gonopodium!
One person I've shown these pictures to thinks all three are males, but I'd be grateful for more views.
