Giant Platty

[littleme1969]

Ok.. strange question, but I'm currently selling some of my plecs on e.bay, and got chatting with a guy who claims he has 3 Large female platties that are about 4" long. .. Now maybe I just drempt it..lol but I think I read somewhere about a giant strain of platy.. or maybe I'm just going bonkers..lol
Has anyone else hear anything about Giant platties?

 

[Annastasia]

Yeah, I've seen one and so has Bryan (I think?). Some just get larger. Unless you are talking abot Variatus Platies, which DO normally get bigger then the regular ones.

 

[Animation]

My male is about 3" :

 

[HeatherW]

My 2 female blue hi-fin mickey mouse platies are 3 inches, and just under 3 inches.

Heather

 

[Ddraig Goch]

I once had a female red wag tail Platy who must have grown to at least 3 inches long, she was huge.

But she was nothing to the blue mickey mouse that I saw at my LHS a few years back , she must have been 5.5 if not 6 inches long , the most enormous Platy I have ever seen!! (she looked more like a giant Gourami, if it wasn't for the MM markings! ).

 

[littleme1969]

Thanks guys
Nice to know I'm not going round the U bend
Sounds like its an age thing then.. If they live long enough and have enough space they can get pretty huge.

 

[Ddraig Goch]

Actually I don't think it's age, mine was quite young.

 

[Animation]

Yes my platy is quite young and was only ina 65Ltr to start with niow in 126

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Yeah i have seen proper Jumbo Platys for sale, although i think more than often they are just swordtail/Platy hybrids; the ones i saw were 4.5inchs long.