Platy Or Molly?

[mattvillas]

Hi all. Was wondering if you could help me ID what type of fish this is. I went to a fish farm and was trying to get an all red platy and ended up getting this orange fish instead. They told me it was a platy, and in my inexperience I thought it looked like a molly. Whats really throwing me off is it's size. It is much larger than any of my platys and is about the size of my two dalmation mollies. So please, which is it? This is probably a stupid question, but is there any easy way to tell them apart?

 

[helterskelter]

100% platy

 

[Piti]

Couldnt be a female swordtail?

 

[helterskelter]

Couldnt be a female swordtail?

Nope as it has a gonopodium. So it's defo male Platy.

 

[sausagewinkle]

I'd say a Platy

 

[mattvillas]

Thank you for your help! If all my platys get this big, my tank will look a lot fuller. I've got a 60 gallon tank that makes all my platies/guppies look smaller than they are.

 

[fuzzynicki]

lovely looking male platy!