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They are in the fry tank now and doing great! Can't wait to watch them grow! They all have that orange hint to them like mama so I assume the dad was similar :) I have 3 platy fry from a different fish that are about a month old and are still clear in color. The mom was orange with a bunch of...

Well I'm glad I left her in the trap while I slept today :) this is what I woke up to.... There is about 35 fry... And mama is happily swimming back in the tank :)

Being so new to live bearers just about everything new excites me. Lol. But I think I see fry eyes in her belly :)

Well, my platy tank is now mixed with guppies.. My husban has a tank with glow fish and tetras and he had some guppies in with them that we're getting all beat up by his other fish so I had to rescue them.... Anyways one of (probably all of) the females is pregnant. I know nothing about guppies...

She is in the trap for the night. I will see if we have any fry in the morning when I get home from work :) I hope so!!!

She is still looking huge today so no fry yet. I was hoping it would have happened this weekend since I have to work the next few nights. I would love to see her actually drop!

I think that one of the other platy fish I got the same time as the one that already dropped is getting pretty close... Here are a couple pics of her... Side view as best as I could get.. And a top view... Hopefully as time goes on I will get much better at determining when it's time :) I...

I ended up doing just that. I was afraid to hurt them but they are fine :) thank you

Well, I came back to see of there were any new fry to find the breeder trap with no mama fish. She must have jumped out!!! I don't see how that is possible but she is swimming around the tank and there are 2 fry in the tank now. How do I get them into the breeder box??

These are her pictures from this afternoon before the fry were dropped... And here is a pic of a few of the new fry...

I noticed earlier today that my platy was kinda just laying around the bottom of the tank and didn't come up to feed when I put food in. So I scooped her into the breeder and checked on her throughout the afternoon. I left for about an hour and a half and came home to six fry at the bottom of...

Just a couple new pics from today.... I scooped her into the breeder box for a couple minutes which made it MUCH easier to get decent pictures! Still nice and round. I am very excited to watch her over the next couple weeks and see what it's like to be "squared off" and drop. As a first timer it...

Here are 2 more pics.. One I was trying to get the "white spot" behind the bottom fin that is on 2 of the platy fish and the other is a top view...

I bought 3 platy fish yesterday and was curious if they could be pregnant. This is a picture of one of them but they all look pretty much the same...