platies

Hi, this is our first experience being fish owners. We have cycled our 29 gallon tank, and our water was double checked at the pet store. We came home with 6 platies. We’d like to get some Cory Cats and either guppies or neon tetras. Do we have room for 2 more species of fish? If so, how...

I got my female plague from a fish store about 3 weeks ago she looks like thus still but I can’t see a Gravid spot so could she just be fat?

Evening all! So I've just got my first tank and I've made all of the usual 'tank from national pet shop chain with poor advice' mistakes. Totally should have done more research before getting into this, but touch wood no fish loss so far, and I'm hoping you can help me keep it that way for a...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I was given a small tank that has two platys in (I'm brand new to fish, so I apologise for the stupid questions) and I've had no trouble for weeks until tonight. I checked on them before bed to find the one on its side and it almost looks like there...

I have a red wag platy that will not leave my big calico (cant remember exact name) platy male alone. He tries to use his gonopodium on him all day long. I had another Micky male in the tank I had to move because red would dart at him, so I don't believe it's territorial. He likes the female...

Hello everyone, I am new here and also new to fish keeping. I have two tanks at the moment (mine,my partners). My partner has a 25 ltr tank with 3 platys in. We noticed recently that they spent a lot of time in the bottom of the tank and looked ill(pale/red gills). I did a water check and the...

Hello everyone, I discovered this site and decided to join, as everyone here seems helpful and friendly. I have a question about a mysterious disappearance. I have a 20 gallon betta community tank. In the tank is a crowntail betta, platies, cory catfish, and kuhli loaches. A few days ago, I...

Hi! I have a 20 gallon aquarium and I am looking at starting a community freshwater tank, I am a beginner so I am looking for easy fish. I was looking at Platies and Mollies yesterday, and I thought maybe I could add 4 mollies and 4 platies to my tank. So far that is all I have. I want my tank...

I have 18 nearly 2 month old platy fry.Free to anyone interested.Im in Woking.Message me for more info. Sadie.

I have a 35 liter fish tank. It's well established and has been up and running for about three years now. It was stocked with: 1x Guppy (he was the last survivor was about 3 years old, I was planning on buying some more little friends for him) 5x Platies (4 females and 1 male) 1x male swordtail...

Well, to start things off, I have great news. My molly fry is growing exponentially and I've started giving it little bits of brine shrimp when the others get a frozen tablet to feast on. I've also found another baby in the tank, an orange one that resembles a platy and it's now in the breeder...

I have been to the lfs to get some more tap safe they only had one sort so I grabbed it and came home :) But when I got home I read the bottle and realised that it is for goldfish :/ does it matter? They really need cleaning out today and I can't go back down to the lfs until friday :/ should I...

Woke up this morning to find all of my of my five guppies except two have got torn sort of ripped tail fins. At first I thought maybe they had just been fighting however when I looked at my platies I saw that one of them has a little tear at the side of his tail fin aswell, so I thought just to...

Hey Everyone,  I am new in this hobby, but I am very excited with it( I actually talk to my fish in the morning, and they know when I  am gonna feed them). Anyways, I have a tank with 1 Big Angel Fish , 7 tetras, and 3 Playes. My platys don't last too long except for a silver female that I call...

Hey guys I'm new to TFF but I am an ok (somewhat experienced) fish owner. I don't seem to have any real problems, I am just in need of some tips! So I have 6 platys in a divided tank (15 gallons), two females and one male on each side, with a betta on each side as well (hence the divided...

Well I have never done this before but here are some pictures of my tank and my fish I am open to any critism I want to improve my tank, it has slowly been improving over the 6months that I have had it The platies The red and black is called Rose and is a female and the calico is a female...

Hey Guys!   So recently I was surfing the internet just looking at some fish and I fell in love with blue platies. I mean, they are one of the most beautiful livebearers I've seen! Anyways, I live in a community with a lot of aquarists that have been hunting down the fish! My LFS gets them every...

Hello everyone i hope i can get some hlpful insight i want to add some new tank mates but first ill give you with what i am working with: 29 gallon (high) cycled freshwater tank with following filtration   top fin 30  micro whisper (5.5g)   and the following fish:   2 emerald cories 1 dalmation...

Afternoon everyone :)   I have a 20L tank which contains 1 male and 1 female platy and 3 platy fry. I have had the adult fish for approximately 3 months and the fry are now around 1 month old.   I purchased a new, better quality heater two days ago as it has become very cold where I live, and...

Plattie looking sick I have a 25l tank with 2 platies, 2 corys and a shrimp. I recently added one of the corys and the shrimp and now one of my platies is sick. :-( he seems to be clamping his fins, has stringy poo and I have seen him flash a few times but only when feeding off the bottom of the...

I want to do a tank with one betta and some platies and maybe mollies.  Are these good tank mates?

Ok, I can't give a picture so I will explain best I can. She's big and box like and her gravid spot is really dark and big, and there also this white dot at her behind, I know all these things means she's close to birth but I have no idea how close.  

I have a 26 gallon tank with driftwood and a few live plants   i currently have.. 1 albino cory catfish 2 platies 1swordtail 1  black phantom tetra   can i add a school of cherry barbs and an angelfish?   im looking to transition to a semi aggressive tank

Hey i just got a 70l tank which is currently cycling! Im a relative beginner (only had one 60l when i was a teenager) so i was interested in some fish like platies, neon tets and guppies but was wondering what sort of numbers i should be getting them in so theyre happy but not overstocked! thanks :D

Hello there!   I've got a couple questions to ask that motiviated me into making this account, but I figured I'd pop in here and first introduce myself! My name is Christina, and I'm from a small hub-city in New Brunswick, Canada. I have just a 5 gallon fish tank so far that I've had for about...

Kinda panicking a bit right now.....   Okay, so I got my daughter some fish for her birthday last weekend. This is something new; I haven't had fish since I was 3 (very faint memory triggered by the smell of fish food...but I digress).   We have a 3 gallon tank with a nice sized filter, and we...

Hey guys, I believe two of my plates are pregnant. Both are female. I have 4 females and one male. And yeah I was expecting this to happen so luckily I had 50L second tank on hand. I have put them in a tank together. They aren't social with each other they both seem to keep to themselves which...

Yesterday I set up my old 30L tank in order to make some room in the 60L for the influx of yet another batch of platy fry expected within the week. I had put the sponge for the newly set-up tank next to the Fluval U1 filter in the 60L for just over a week to seed it. Transferred some of the fry...

I tend to rotate my fishes diets between discus granules and two different types of tropical flakes.   As i've ran out of one of the types of tropical flakes i've been giving them more discus granules than they'd normally get regularly. The problem is i've noticed that the platies (2 female...

Hi everyone, Just yesterday I realised that we have fry in my 21L tank. We got one adult female platy and one male balloon molly yesterday morning aswell. Talking about bad timing. Before we got the balloon molly and platy we already had 1 male guppy and two female black platies about 2 weeks...

Hello, I woke up a few days ago to rather a lot of baby platies, I have a feeling both females have given birth, eeek! I only have a 28L tank and don't have another to keep fry in, they seem to be surviving and hiding well My question is, how long do I leave it before I can re-home them? Thank...