"Far Thunder" wrote in message
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Looks like total of 15 dead, still only found one survivor, looks to be
comparatively small in regards to some of the dead fry. the mother is
definitely *way* deflated, but hard to imagine she really had that many
largish fry in her..some of the dead have wispy things attached to their
abdomens..do livebearer fish have umbilicals or the equivalent?
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I don't know about fry imbilicals but it sounds reasonable since something
has to attach them to the yolk or the mothers uterus (for lack of a better
word where fish are concerned). I recently lost a platy female who gave
birth twice to dead fry or the fry died shortly after birth - this last time
she passed away as well. None of the other platy's are affected. She was
about 2 1/2 yrs old.
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