When do i separate my pregnant platy

Then you net them, put them in here, and let them have the babies. The babies are too weak to swim and fall down the V-trap, through a slot at the bottom, and are caught underneath where neither the mother nor the other fish in the tank can eat them. You can then either transfer them to a separate tank or remove the mother and the V-traps, and keep them in there until they get stronger, larger, can eat adult food, etc I've had success with all methods.

Sometimes you just don't get the timing right and the mother births in the main tank. It's surprising how many survive. Also, you don't have to deal with culling. You usually get some fish that are born deformed and it's much easier to have another fish take them out quickly than to have to do it yourself or to have them die slowly from whatever is wrong with them. As for feeding, it's harder to feed them when they're in with the adults, since they have to expose themselves to get the flakes.

Also, the flakes are too big and they have a hard time breaking them off. I typically spend a good amount of time crushing the adult flakes into powder between my fingers and storing it in an old beta food container. It'll last you a long time.

I feed this to my babies till they can tear off chunks of the big food. This is one option and you can get them where the babies can swim back and forth through them or where they're completely segregated with only water exchange allowed.

This gives you a little of both worlds, where you don't have to set up a separate tank, but you can separate them and give them a safe place to grow, also being able to feed them separately.

Platys are very easy, you don't have to help much. Babies are born living and can swim from the first minute.

If there's something to hide, they will survive. If not, other platy will eat them. If you're interested in having young platys, take care about what you do if the grow up. Your aquarium might be too small. If you don't like babies, just remove everything to hide, the others will hunt'em and eat the babies. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. The fins are the same shape. The spot on the sides is still present and still in the same place. I'm not an expert on platies, but looks female to me with that gravid spot. If the fin hasn't changed at all, I would think female. Click to expand It's had that spot for 26 days, and has not gotten any bigger. Contrast that with the orange one, who has gotten much bigger. Here, I finally managed to get some new pictures: Those two fish came home at the same time.

I took these today. No babies yet. Today we also bought four more cories, totaling six in the tank now: three peppered, two bronze, one albino.

The new ones are smaller and very zippy. I haven't been able to get a picture because they're all over the place. Males definitely wouldn't have such a prominent gravid spot IMO, and seems like she doesn't have any signs of forming a gonopodium. She could just be not pregnant if she isn't getting larger.

Which are your original cories? Unfortunately, the peppered cories prefer cooler water than the rest of your fish, and are therefore incompatible for your tank. It would also be better to have cories of all the same type, instead of an assortment. The original ones are one peppered and one bronze. The new ones are two peppered, one bronze, one albino. All six all came from the same tank at the store. With the exception of the original peppered one, who seems to prefer to be alone, they're already starting to hang out in a pile, when they're not swimming in circles at warp speed around the tank or playing in the bubbles.

What temperature is the tank? Peppered don't tolerate high temps well, they like it around 70, which is low for your other fish. When I didn't know anything about fish, I had a few peppered in a tropical tank, and they always eventually died off mysteriously, just getting more lethargic until they died. I'm suspecting the temp was too high and stressing them out. It would still be better for them to have more of their same kind instead of different kinds.

The bronze and albino should be okay, because they're different varieties of the same Corydoras Aeneus, if I'm not mistaken. It's at 74F. At the moment, they all seem to be happily swimming around. Jasper the original peppered cory still seems to prefer to keep to his own company, but he's pretty active.

He's always moving from plant to plant and occasionally comes out to play in the bubbles. Still no platy fry. Pumpkin gets rounder by the day but so far shows no signs of being ready to deliver.

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Live plants also help cut down on algae by using up resources in its stead. But if your heart is set on a particular fancy plastic decorative plant, you can have both it and live plants side by side in your aquarium. Platy fish can take a few hours up to 3 days to finish giving birth. The top view will confirm the slimmer belly. If males and females are kept together, expect to be getting pregnant females every month or so.

Platies are very sexually active fish as evidenced by the behavior of males. In a breeding tank, the incidence of fry death is smaller, with about half of the total number of Platy fry surviving with proper care and feeding. This is usually about 15 to 20 per batch of fry. This is from a single mating alone. However, their highly sexual nature may result in aggression amongst them. An all-female tank is even rarer as Platies are usually bought for their coloration.

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Skip to content Mature female Platies get pregnant all the time if kept with males. Are Pregnant Platys Aggressive? This is normal.