Newest Pic Of Platy... (07/04/2011)

[bhoffman]

As far as I can tell.. I dont think she lost the babies.. I think she is still carrying them.. its just a matter of when she will ave them?

 

[bhoffman]

Just thought that I would add.. that I can see black in her anal opening now! I hope this means things will be happening soon...and that I will have fry soon!! I am very excited about this. If she actually has the babies.. I will be buying another 10 gal. tank to raise the fry in for now. I have a few people who want some fish, so I will give some away and keep some for the new 10 gal. tank. My original tank has enough fish in it (6 platys. Maybe I will buy a bigger tank and transfer my platys from my 10 gal. tank into the bigger one and use the 10 gal. for the fry tank? hmm.. maybe Im getting ahead of myself here..lol

 

[This Old Spouse]

Any time!

 

[bhoffman]

Thats good to read!! I have been watching her constantly for the past couple days.. and maybe too excited!! I had one fish have fry a couple months ago.. but they didnt survive.. mainly because I had absolutely no clue on how to care for them. I had them in a seperate container.. but that wasnt good enough for them. I thoguht it would be if I kept doing reg. water changes.. and it didnt.. the first water change I did.. I killed 95% of them.. the other ones... didnt last long after either. I didnt even know that any of my platys were preg. at the time.. and didnt know there were any fry.. until i was sitting watching the tanjk one day.. i shoudl have just left them in the tank instead of seperatign them and trying to save them. This time I think I have read enough to keep them safe and have them survive.

The momma seems very agitated right now. She is constantly swimming up and down and hasnt really stopped for a rest for a while. I hope she isnt stressing out.

 

[This Old Spouse]

That's actually a pretty good sign that she's about ready to drop.

 

[bhoffman]

Oh that is awesome!! She ahs slowed down.. or.. she DID slow down.. there she goes again. Maybe I should throw the towel back over the tank so that it is darker? But then I wont be able to watch!! Im hoping it happens during the day and not at night when I am sleeping. If she doesnt have them today I might have to wake up through the night to check on here.. lol. Just so she doesn eat her babies. I woudl like my kids to be able to see them being born too. They would really like that.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Try to do as LITTLE as possible to/around her right now!

 

[bhoffman]

Okay. Maybe I will move away from her tank then. I have been sitting by her tank for a while now. BUt i have it in between two couches. I will mopev to the other side. I can still see but I wont be as close.

 

[bhoffman]

Okay. Maybe I will move away from her tank then. I have been sitting by her tank for a while now. BUt i have it in between two couches. I will mopev to the other side. I can still see but I wont be as close.