foxgirl158
Fishaholic
Sooo…. I did a thing. I’ve been looking for a blue spotted platy for MONTHS and my LFS got some in a week or so ago. I only found out that they had them on Friday.
My mom took me in on Saturday and there was only one female left. I definitely didn’t want a male because I have all females already.
Now, my 10g quarantine tank is currently home to 27 fry from two of my other females, so I didn’t have a great place to put her. Friday night I put some dechlorinated and tank water in a 5g bucket with a bubbler, heater, and spare filter with a mature filter pad from the 10g. This would have worked great, if the only female the store had wasn’t heavily gravid. She looks like she will pop in the next day. Because I wanted to save some of her fry (she’s a beautiful fish), the bucket wasn’t going to work. It was too deep, and the substrate blended in with the bucket itself so I wouldn’t be able to see the fry anyway.
I decided to temporarily move her into a one gallon and set up some dividers, a hut, and a tilted slatted piece from a breeder box. This effectively almost blocked off the entire bottom half of the tank, with small gaps to allow fry to slip through. She has the whole top half and house to swim and hide in. There’s also a heater and a bubbler. She’s so big and her gravid spot is so dark with fry eyes I expect she won’t be in it for more than a day. I know it’s not the best situation, but I’ve been looking for a fish like her for months, and my LFS didn’t know if/when they would get more in sooo. Here we are.
Her name is Ellie, after Carls wife from the Disney movie Up. I call her mama Ellie with the big belly
My mom took me in on Saturday and there was only one female left. I definitely didn’t want a male because I have all females already.
Now, my 10g quarantine tank is currently home to 27 fry from two of my other females, so I didn’t have a great place to put her. Friday night I put some dechlorinated and tank water in a 5g bucket with a bubbler, heater, and spare filter with a mature filter pad from the 10g. This would have worked great, if the only female the store had wasn’t heavily gravid. She looks like she will pop in the next day. Because I wanted to save some of her fry (she’s a beautiful fish), the bucket wasn’t going to work. It was too deep, and the substrate blended in with the bucket itself so I wouldn’t be able to see the fry anyway.
I decided to temporarily move her into a one gallon and set up some dividers, a hut, and a tilted slatted piece from a breeder box. This effectively almost blocked off the entire bottom half of the tank, with small gaps to allow fry to slip through. She has the whole top half and house to swim and hide in. There’s also a heater and a bubbler. She’s so big and her gravid spot is so dark with fry eyes I expect she won’t be in it for more than a day. I know it’s not the best situation, but I’ve been looking for a fish like her for months, and my LFS didn’t know if/when they would get more in sooo. Here we are.
Her name is Ellie, after Carls wife from the Disney movie Up. I call her mama Ellie with the big belly
The only thing it's missing is duct tape 
