A platy is born...

[appleblossom]

Well one of my wagtail platys is giving birth as I type this, and as she has chosen to do it during the day I have been lucky enough to see it in action! So I thought I'd share

Here are 2 films of my platy giving birth, she tends to go back to the same plant for each birth, hover, then make a little jolt and you can see the fry dropping away from her (the mother then rushes back to the surface to finish off her flakes )

birth 1 (517k)

birth 2 (562k)

And here is one of the little guys resting on a leaf

Edit: Anyone getting a codec error when they try to watch the videos need to download this divx codec....

 

[QHowes]

Wow those are amazing! Congrats on being something of a parent

 

[ChriX]

Hehe, great music

 

[sadfishowner]

aww man, I couldn't get it to work...I heard the music...but said error in code...

 

[appleblossom]

Hmm I just tried it on another pc Sadfishowner and it did the same to me "error downloading codec"

 

[canarsie11]

Wow those are amazing! Congrats on being something of a parent

That would make him grandparent, seing he did not give birth to the fry himself!

 

[fishrock]

wow that was cool.i have never been able to see mine giving birth.shes not a relaxed as yours.congrats and thanks for the video.

 

[TorPeteO]

Not really a grandparent, either, since he didn't give birth to the parents, either. A foster parent, I guess.

Yeah, I couldn't see the film, can't open .avi files. Too bad, but that picture's a beaut, really cute lookin' buggers. My Halberder has been courting his women, Lucifer and Peach, so hopefully I'll get some fry of my own soon.