platy

I've shown off my bettas but haven't my swordtails and single platy.    My platy Sunrise:      Little Momma (female swordtail):      Betsy (female swordtail) and Spike:   

Hello I'm new to the forum and new to keeping platies. The shop where I got my platies from did not tell me that platies were easy to breed so you can imagine how surprised I was when I saw a baby swim across the tank one day a few weeks after having them. I know which fish it was because...

I noticed a few days ago that my sunburst platy was pregnant. I've never dealt with this before but I did a lot of online research and made sure of it. I bought a breeder box and tried to figure out the best time to put her in, and I read a lot of the forums on here about it as well, but it's...

Okay so I have been watching my platy closely today and she seems to be hiding a lot, she has a white tube under her anal fin and her graved spot seems to be closer to it. I noticed some white and clear poo that's stringy? What does this mean? Will she drop soon ? None of the other fish have...

My Mickey Mouse platy still looks pregnant after giving birth 2 days ago. I don't know how many she had but I've seen 3 so far that we're hiding. Do you think she will drop again within the next couple of days?

We have two female and one male platy. He keeps chasing both females and like head butting them. He is quite violent towards them. Anyway, she has been pregnant a while now but I'm wondering when will she drop? She's eating fine but isolating herself a lot at the back of the tank near the...

Hi everyone! I currently have 3 tanks, a 35L with 6 platys (male and female), 20L with 4 mollies (all female) and a 10L one with a male betta.   We first had the platys and mollys in the 35L tank, and decided to separate them by getting a 20L tank, when we started noticing small fry swimming...

  Ok I know not the best pic but at least in it you can tell this fish's fin is clear well now her fin looks like this.      I can't really give you good readings on the water conditions because I've been trying to fight a fungus in the tank and have lost all but 3 of my guppies.  Now I'm with...

I was just looking at my fish and noticed my red platy has a white haze over her left eye. What could this be? I don't know whether to treat for fungus or white spot/parasite? Is it related to fin rot? I want to nip it in the early stages, but not sure what it is! It looks like there might be a...

Hi I dont know if anyone could help me....  I have had platys for 6/8 weeks now and i was unsure of gender when i brought them but i have later found out they are 2 female and 2 male. I am unsure if my 2 females are pregnant now, they have a black spot inside them and there stomach seems to have...

I recently started a 10 gallon freshwater tank.  After the water tests all came out good I got several live plants and 5 fish (all platies, 3 tiger platies and 2 high finned platies) and introduced them to the tank.  The fish were added two days ago and yesterday I noticed two of the fish began...

I'm really confused, there are a few fry in my tank this morning, but none of my pregnant fish looked ready to give birth and they all still look pregnant? What's going on? I've spotted about five fry, and I don't know if they are guppy or platy...how can I tell?

hi there, my platy had babies but she is only 3 months old? is this okay?   I have a video of her having one of them, I don't know if she's too young? any help?  

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 everyone, I currently have a tank with two sunset fire platy's and two angelfish. One of the platy's seems to have a big bulge in its stomach compared to the other one. They are both females but had been in a tank with other males before being moved into this one. I am begining to think...

Hello! I need some insight...   I have 2 female platy that I purchased at different times during the last 3 weeks. One is a blue mickey mouse platy, and the other.... I'm not sure, lol. It looks like this, though...

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...

What to do!! When I checked the tanks this morning was surprised to see a large red mark on the side of the adult female platy. She seems ok in herself, just injured. I suspect she'd been attacked by one/some of the 5 month old platy fry as their older sibling started a fight with adult male...

Last night I saw 2 of my platys getting a bit aggressive with each other, didn't think much of it. All I thought was the female wanted to be alone and she was nudging the male away repeatedly when he kept coming back. Checked my fish this morning as I do, checking if everyone is alive... Back...

Just wondering if my platy looks pregnant to anyone else? I don't know if the darker bit on her stomach is a gravid spot since I'm new to this. What does everyone think? Thanks :)

I have 2 male platys in my tank and have noticed the smaller one tends to follow the larger one around quite a lot, even though the bigger one sometimes chases him away. I'm just wondering if anyone knows why this is? I'm curious :s

I was told by the pet store that the white and orange platy is female and the all orange one is male but I'm beginning to wonder if they are both male? I'm new to this and would appreciate any help. Thank you

I've recently bought a 64litre 'fish box' aquarium which I'm cycling at the moment with 2 platys, a male and a female. I'm just wondering what other fish I could have in with the platys, and what's the most I could have in the tank. I'm planning on getting a second female platy once the tank has...

I got a gorgeous  (handsome?) male platy today, along with a calico female and a sunset burst female. This may be too early to mention, but he doesn't seem to be paying much attention to the females. He seems like he kind of half-courts the calico, but he nips aggressively at the sunset burst...

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 all,  Restarting the journal for my community tank as the pictures were absolutely useless lol   As this is my first planted tank, and really first community tank, all advice/criticism/feedback is strongly desired!   Here is the first pic, day 1. (This was about 3 weeks ago)     Needless...

Hi everyone, I have 6 fry, 5 guppy and 1 platy.   i had 5 live guppy fry (the ones i caught) 3 weeks ago,  3 were very healthy, 2 had deformities i keep them in a 2.5gall, i suppose its ok for now as i only have 5 fry in it at the mo, i kept the deformed ones in the tank for two weeks but last...

Hi   I have a 10 gallon tank that has been set up since January. It currently has: 2 x Dwarf Gouramis 2 x Dalmatian Mollys 2 little catfish bottom feeder fish, not sure exactly which one, and 1 Platy.   Last week 3 Platys died, and I have no idea why. I would like to get some more fish, but want...

Hi, I visited my lfs the other day and saw a beautiful cichlid! i know that there are many types of cichlids so i dont have a clue what type it was, it was pinky/red/orangey coloured.  Anyway, i was wondering, can they live with platys and guppies? and if not guppies can they live with just...

Hi, I'm getting a bigger tank this week and was thinking of adding more fish to my 4 guppies and 4 platys. Any suggestions on what fish would go well with these? Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

We have a 5 gal tank for our son with 2 females and the 1 male we had died unexpectedly about a week after getting the females. That was a month or so ago. A few days ago I saw a baby fry in the tank and quickly pulled him and separated him. He is cute and happy...I'm assuming only one mom had...

Hello!! I am a new member! I just wanted to share an exciting moment with people who will understand! I have a 50 litre tank with platys, corys and rummy nose tetras, my platy have obviously been dropping fry religiously! And there's a about 3 or 4 decent sized ones lurking around, however my...

Hi I just got my first platy and I can't tell if it's a sunburst mickey mouse or a sunset mickey mouse, or are they the same thing? Here's the best pic I could get of him, her? Also, any clue on sexing, particularly what sex mine is and why. And I see he's a bit red around the gills, at first I...

I've had Platys for about a year, and yesterday I decided to cut my numbers down from 15 (mixed) to just 5 favourite females. I did this in order to add some rainbows and also a few blue shiners to my tank.    4 of the females seem to be ok, but one, my favourite, seems to be hiding at the back...

I've had Platys for about a year, and yesterday I decided to cut my numbers down from 15 (mixed) to just 5 favourite females. I did this in order to add some rainbows and also a few blue shiners to my tank.    4 of the females seem to be ok, but one, my favourite, seems to be hiding at the back...

Hey guys. Sorry picture isn't great. Just wondering is my plath is pregnant. She seena to be getting bigger and she she seems to have a white bitvaround her anal fin. Any help will be great :)

Hey guys! I have a question that might or might not go in this section, but it seems like the best area for it. My husband and I have a 20gal tank with 6 platies living in it. One of our female platys is pregnant for the second time, and has been caught as the reason some of our ferns in the...

I have a Mickey mouse platy that is about 9 months old today. She was birthed from a recent platy that I used to have. She is very fat and I was positive she was pregnant. She has been pregnant for three months and most people tell me that they are only pregnant for 3-4 weeks. I had her in a...

Is she pregnant when is she ready to pop?  

Is she pregnant? If so how long until she blows