red platy fry HELP... PLEASE... : [

[DEM]

HI i need help rasing my platy... as you can see ... My red wag platy had
just given birth to 25 fry and one non-fully developed one that was all ready
dead ... I had recently had 2 males but 1 died so i returned him on a warenty
but the other was beat up badly and slowly died days after so i did the
honerable thing and flushed him after a few words..=( so after the the
sarrow went away i bought a new female but she was already pregnet so i
bought a breader . she was only in there 4 a day ... so far none have died
buy from what i hear i would be lucky if one survives ...one more question my
platys look like they are starting to grow big will all of them fit in the
breader for long?

-- DEM

[ExPat]

On Mar 12, 4:11*pm, "DEM" <u42059@uwe> wrote:
> HI i need help rasing my platy... as you can see ... My red wag platy had
> just given birth to 25 fry and one non-fully developed one that was all ready
> dead ... I had recently had 2 males but 1 died so i returned him on a warenty
> but the other was beat up badly and slowly died days after so i did the
> honerable *thing and flushed him after a few words..=( * *so after the the
> sarrow went away i bought a new female but she was already pregnet so i
> bought a breader . she was only in there 4 a day ... so far none have died
> buy from what i hear i would be lucky if one survives ...one more question my
> platys look like they are starting to grow big will all of them fit in the
> breader for long?
>
> -- DEM

ONce the fry are brom its best to keep all adults out of the breeder.
The breeder is just that, a place where the female can give birth and
you can confine the fry, but inall reality they need to be in a tank
not a breeder once they start to swim. How long they can stay inthere
depends on how much and how fast they grow but a separate tank is
best. I hope that male platy was dead before flushing. If your going
to breed fish yu need to make sure you have ample tanks for the fry as
well as a means to place them in your tanks for a home or in other
folks tanks. Live bearers can inundate you with fish and once they are
exposed to a male the female can have young on a continueing cycle for
approx 5 or 6 months with no futher need of a male to mate with

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thx 4 the help
the adult is out of the breeder i got her out as soon as i saw she was done ..
didnt want her to die from the being lonely. she is doing fine. turns out i
miss counted so i took a digital pic and i have 37 live and 1 miss so far
none have died $- )
i read about seperating them as soon as posible so there is no weird growth
problems but how can i tell what is what ...
please get back to me ASAP thx

ExPat wrote:
>> HI i need help rasing my platy... as you can see ... My red wag platy had
>> just given birth to 25 fry and one non-fully developed one that was all ready
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>>
>> -- DEM
>
>ONce the fry are brom its best to keep all adults out of the breeder.
>The breeder is just that, a place where the female can give birth and
>you can confine the fry, but inall reality they need to be in a tank
>not a breeder once they start to swim. How long they can stay inthere
>depends on how much and how fast they grow but a separate tank is
>best. I hope that male platy was dead before flushing. If your going
>to breed fish yu need to make sure you have ample tanks for the fry as
>well as a means to place them in your tanks for a home or in other
>folks tanks. Live bearers can inundate you with fish and once they are
>exposed to a male the female can have young on a continueing cycle for
>approx 5 or 6 months with no futher need of a male to mate with

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