blue plume tail platy

[fish48]

occasionally the Plume tail platy turn up in the tropical fish shops, a picture of the blue plume tail platy

 

[emeraldking]

Both are a bit too skinny. They need some good food.
Overhere, they are also hardly to find. Just like you said, occasionally they show up at an lfs overhere.

 

[10 Tanks]

Hello. Very nice fish! I like the Sunset Platys myself. They're very bright and the LFS has them very cheap right now. So, I have several in a 55 gallon tank.

10 Tanks (Now 11)

 

[fish48]

Both are a bit too skinny. They need some good food.
Overhere, they are also hardly to find. Just like you said, occasionally they show up at an lfs overhere.

yes I agree, there's nothing better than feeding them with plenty of live foods they soon recover

 

[fish48]

Hello. Very nice fish! I like the Sunset Platys myself. They're very bright and the LFS has them very cheap right now. So, I have several in a 55 gallon tank.

10 Tanks (Now 11)

sunset platys are very nice looking fish there are so many varieties of platys to choose from

 

[Back in the fold]

If you guys - @emeraldking and @fish48 - were to take a guess , how many varieties of Platy’s are there in the hobby ? Both of you have posted a lot of pictures of different ones lately.

 

[fish48]

there are at least nine species of wild platys plus many subspecies,
and as for domesticated variatus & maculatus platys there are many fancy names and colour varieties

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[emeraldking]

Can't tell how many breeding forms of both variatus and maculatus platies there are nowadays... Way too many...!
Yes, about nine wild platy species. And when it comes to the X.maculatus and the X.variatus, all wild populations of both species are one and the same species but different in phenotypes (coloration, pattern and shape) which is the result of external factors.
I'm fortunate to own a range of wild platy species.