Rare Find?

[Kolina]

Hey all! I am brand-spankin new to these forums but not all that new to keeping tanks. I've been keeping trpical tanks off an on now since I was about 15 and have only recently (2 years or so) been keeping up with tropical fish keeping seriously. Anyway, I had just recently had to clear out my whole tank due to my last fish, a gold gourami, die of something odd. I have no clue what it was. With the tank cleaned and established I went out and bought 6 new fish. 3 Danios, 2 mollies and 1 platy. Now it's my platy that came as a huge surprise to me.

I rarely ever buy fish at wal-mart. I think it's been over a year and half since I've purchsed fish from that huge chain-line store but yesterday when I was getting some new food my eyes caught this gorgeous pure white male platy. I almost walked away telling myself that I shouldn't buy him because of the problems my wal-mart has been having with keeping fish but I couldn't pass him up. I ended up getting him and he seems to be doing wonderfully in the tank. I added him into the water at the same time as the rest of my fish and all seems well. He's quite happy to swim around out in the open. Until I pull out my camera that is. I did manage to snap two shots of him as he poked out from behind the plants. I plan on finding him a female or two when I go to visit a few local pet shops. Is a white platy rare? I must admit I am not use to keeping them I've been more into gouramis until recently. OH! And if anyone has any name suggestions for this fella I'd really appreciate it.

 

[Lynda B]

Gorgeous..... how about "Ghost"?

 

[whiteley]

Gorgeous..... how about "Ghost"?

very nice! i am looking for a pure black and some other colours as i have got 1 dalmation mollie, 1 red/orange/black scruffy looking one

6 orange with black tail platties
1 swordtail orange plattie
and one seethrough plattie


do like the white one though very nice

 

[theotheragentm]

Is that a Platy? It kind of looks like a Molly to me. It's hard to tell though. Do you have more pictures?

 

[Kolina]

Is that a Platy? It kind of looks like a Molly to me. It's hard to tell though. Do you have more pictures?

Heh, seems someone spotted something I didn't right away. I just searche dup mollies and platies. (Seeing as I've never had either before) and it seems I've confused the two. I thought my molly was a platy and vice versa. This little guy is actually a molly. I am going to attempt to take some more pictures now if he'll let me. I am telling you this fella is camera shy.

And here's another picture though it's really bad. I can't seem to get a good clear pic of him.

 

[theotheragentm]

Looks like a Molly to me. Silver Mollies are not uncommon, but still great fish. If you notice, the fish is much longer and it's nose comes to a much finer point. For taking better pictures, lights off in the room and blinds closed so you have a dark room. Tank lights on. Try a macro settings on your camera. Avoid zooming. It also helps to have all lights off and flip the tank lights on after a half hour. The fish are "sleepy" and less likely to move during the picture.

 

[Sapphelah]

Heehee, don't feel bad, I'm up to...12 adult mollies and all of them will come up and interact with me until I pull out the camera...then suddenly they're gone.

 

[sunpirate2u]

You could get a black molly and name the white one Salt and, the black one Pepper.