Can Platys Change Genders? O.0

[TheSims3Dude]

That's weird, cause I've had one female swordtail that gave birth to babies (which is how I remember this) one day she was had a gonopodium, which doesn't make sense considering she had babies a few months back,........ Can anyone explain this? (plus he/she had the long "swordtail" afterwards too.....

 

[otakufishy]

That's weird, cause I've had one female swordtail that gave birth to babies (which is how I remember this) one day she was had a gonopodium, which doesn't make sense considering she had babies a few months back,........ Can anyone explain this? (plus he/she had the long "swordtail" afterwards too.....

huh. that's weird. are you sure that's the gonopodium? I cant think of anyway to prove that wrong. hmmm.

Anyways, for an update: the fish are fine (they're boys).

 

[omega59]

I had 5 guppies all females, and suddenly two became male. not sure if its the same as platies but if you keep all females together from what i read, some will become males.

 

[OldMan47]

Poeciliids do not change sex. Their sex is determined genetically in much the same fashion as with people. What they do have is a need to develop their sexual characteristics that we recognize. At birth all of the common livebearers look like females but they do not change to males, they show by their appearance that they are males after they have a chance to mature. This is not true of all fish but it is true of the entire poeciliid group which includes mollies, swordtails, guppies, endlers, platies and the rest of the common livebearers.