platy

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice please because I'm feeling a little out of my depth. I had a 58 litre tank with a couple of Sterbai Cory and a few guppies which exploded on the guppy population. I upgraded them to a 125 litre around the start of December last year and cycled the tank...

Hello. we have had 2 female platys for about a month now and one has had problems for some time. This morning we noticed that she has been lying on her side at the bottom of the tank and hardly moving. when she does try to swim, she freaks out and leans to the side and kind of barrel rolls She...

I am new to this hobby and I need to know if my platy is pregnant as I will need to get the proper equipment! Thanks so much

Okay so i'm not sure if i can call my platy fry anymore. I have two pregnant platies in a tank waiting to give birth and about 4 months ago there was a batch of fry, later there are 3 now grown to the size of a neon tetra. All are females and are housed with 2 males. One female has a much...

I thought this would be a good way to keep track of my fish breeding project!   I have an amazing breeding project in mind that i want to do, right now i'm focusing on platy fish. I'm still waiting for them to give birth but love and behold i found one platy about 3 days ago and he's been such a...

Hello all, So basically I'm expecting fry anytime this week. This is a repeat of my preg fish from about a month ago but sadly they all died because at the time i was new and did not meet the fry requirements. I currently have 1 fry i am raising in my main tank (in a hatchery) who is doing very...

Hi everyone, so I am new to the hobby of keeping fish, and also new to this forum (I hope I'm posting this in the right topic) So we've had fish since somewhere in September 2015. We bought a 17-litre tank (4 gallon) and 12 fish. What we got: 3 livebearers, platy's to be exact, one of them a red...

Hi I just got a Platy fish and im really not sure if its pregnant or not or just a bit fat ?? Please help !! ps- sorry its not the best quality picture-

So i got 3 platies 2 weeks ago. My other 2 platies are just fine and happy. all 3 eat well. but since last 3-4 days, one of my platy have got a white translucent film on its eye. its eye seems fine, but there is a layer covering its eye. It is sitting at one spot too, it just comes up to eat...

I have a platy that is almost an adult living in a pretty healthy 20 gallon. I just noticed now that they have 3 white patches across the body. At first I thought that maybe it was like some diseases that resemble cotton on the body, but it doesn't look like that. It looks more like the scales...

I've had two Platies for about a month now and all was good. My female actually just died yesterday from getting stuck in a VERY small "window" in one of my decorations. Very sad.  I've gradually been adding some fish once in a while such as a dwarf gourami, a honey gourami, a cory, and...

Tank size : 2*1*1.5 feet. Length, width and height. Tank mate: 2 guppi, 2 sword tale, 4 red tetra, 3 white moly, 3 black molly, 3 yellow molly, 5 hockey, 4 mickey mouse platty, 1 sunset platy, 1 betta, 1 zebra danio. Came back from 7 days vacation. Had cleaned tank before going and putted...

I purchased a platy yesterday and was wondering if it was pregnant. Thanks in advanced

Hello,  I'm new here, and I'm fairly sure this is the correct forum to post in, I apologise if it is not. I have also never had white spot in any of my tanks before and I am quite worried about the whole situation.   Okay, about a week ago I noticed a few white spots on one of my platys after a...

Hi all,    Let me sort of start from the beginning. Around 6-7 months ago, my gorgeous blood red male crowntail betta (Mistletoe - got him as a christmas gift) passed away. He was a BIG boy, but had such a gentle nature to him. He was housed with a few platys (of all colors and variety) and 3...

I....have no clue what fish is having babies. I came home from work to ANOTHER baby aside from the one that's survived from the Molly's batch...and I don't know who this one belongs to. It's smaller than the one that's already there, and this one is almost see through.   None of my fishies...

Hello, I recently got a 20 gal tank...about 2-3 weeks ago and I currently have 4 platy's, a molly and two guppies. 3 of the platy's were purchased a couple days after I got the tank, along with the dalmation molly and just two days ago I got a sunburst platy and the two guppies.   During feeding...

Ok, platy just gave birth in community tank. I saw 3 fry - could be more that I didn't see. Then the platy kinda put herself into one of the plants, shook a few times and stopped moving. That was an hour ago. Now she's floating nose down but upside down in one spot-not moving her fins or...

I've got a bit of a problem. I added a new female platy to my tank about 6 months ago - she then had lots and lots of babies. It wasn't a huge problem because I would simply take them to my local Maidenhead Aquatics once they were big enough. HOWEVER... she's just had another batch (which I...

It appears my platy gave birth last night. I don't see any live fry unless they are doing a really good job hiding in the floating plants.  What I do see is what appears to be dead fry and circular egg looking things that have an eyeball on it.  All of these are at the bottom of the tank in the...

I'm hoping you all can help me.    I'm just trying to figure out if my platy really is pregnant.  She's a yellow mickey mouse platy.  She certainly looks pregnant, and has for a couple of weeks. She's been acting strange - hiding at the top of the tank by the heater/filter and hiding in a cave...

I think I have a pregnant Mickey Mouse platy.  She has been acting a bit out of the ordinary the past day or so.  She swims with the other fish, then hides for a while, then swims again, and then will sit at the top of the tank between the filter and the heater.  Is this normal?  The sitting at...

My husband, myself and I are fish addicts. We have 20 aquariums and four indoor ponds. I started off keeping goldfish and koifish in my indoor ponds. My husband started of keeping swordtails, guppies, platys, endlers, gold dust and sailfins in freshwater tanks. We now have black water tanks...

just a couple questions about my pregnant platy, and again it's my first time with pregnant fish! i keep hearing the ways to tell like they'll be squared off like this kinda \__/ and they'll get the gravid spot but it's still not really easy for a first timer to identify those things, can anyone...

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...

So I'm new to this forum though am a somewhat experienced fish keeper but not so much with fry. I currently have around 60 platy fry (from 2 mothers... Experimenting with colour mixes. Luckily for me my LFS is happy to take them off my hands when 2cm). The platy fry are currently in two 15L...

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...

I acquired 3 wagtail platys a month ago and had the first fry about 10 days ago. We managed to move 6 to a separate tank before they were eaten and have 2 maybe 3 still alive. We haven't kept fish before so it's been a bit of a minefield. Our main tank isn't the right shape for a breeder box so...

Hi everyone, I got 4 new platys yesterday, today I noticed one of them flicking on the bogwood and plastic leaves. No other signs of ich, should I put the medicine in just in case or is there anything else I can do? Any positive advice would be welcome!!

Is my platy pregnant? The guy from my lfs said she was but that was two weeks ago.

Hi everyone got 2 pregnant platys for pet shop 1 gave birth yesterday so have 13 fry The other one is pregnant and have put in a tank of it's own to hopefully save fry she is swimming from one end of the tank to the other quite fast and has pooped a lot today I am wondering if it's got long to...

Hi I recently bought a 90 litre aquarium and it currently contains 5 Neon Tetra's the amonium and nitrate levels are all 0 and the fish seem lively and happy. I am planning on gradually planning on building up my aquarium to contain 10 Neons, 3-5 Platy's, 3-5 Guppies and 2 Dwarf Loaches. I have...

Hey Guys!   So this is my first post so ill tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Ryan, im 13 and I am an aquarium enthusiast!  A couple of years ago I had a 30g livebearer tank and it went downhill from my lack of knowledge on cycling and just immature keeping in general. So I now have...

My blue wag platy Topaz gave birth on May 20. I got home from work and noticed two tiny shiny things in my tank, I netted them out and put them in a breeding net attached to the side of my tank. The tank is 10 gallons and is home to my three platties and now one baby. I went to feed the fish...

I have just noticed that one of my juvenile male platies has a funny-shaped belly. Instead of making a convex shape his belly looks concave as tho he is holding it in and his bottom line is parallel to his top line. It does not appear to cause any any problems other than I have noticed he tends...

My Platy just started spinning around. I moved him over to the breeding tank so I can keep an eye on him. I can’t see any issue with him physically and apart from the spinning he is acting normal. I bought him from Pets at Home just over a month ago. I have a few other Platies and a pleco and...

Okay first of all I'm pretty new to fish keeping (well 6 months in..)+the forums, and I wasn't sure where this topic should go so please forgive me. But anyway. For the last couple of days one of my platys has been hanging around by the filter in my 17L tank (yes I know to small but I've got a...

Hi all   Not sure if I put this in the right place, but I have one particular platy that keeps getting stuck in my Juwel 180L filter. I've rescued him 3 times now and today he is back in there. I have no idea how he gets there in the first place. I have 3 platies and 3 mollies and NONE of them...

Hey Folks,   brand new to the forum and pretty new to fishkeeping, though i seem to have been rather bitten by the bug.   We recently (10 weeks) bought a 19 litre Tank for my youngest son, as much to head off demands for a dog! and now i wonder if a dog might not have taken less time and effort...

My tank currently has: 30 Gallons. six guppies. Six platy's. Four sword tail. All breeding has seemed to stop, one girl is two months over due and should be having her babies once again, though right now I'm treating the water for bacteria. How long until after they are ready to start breeding...