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