First Time... Platy

[blaxicanlatino]

Would an amazon sword plant be good for them?

 

[DannyS]

My Platies love cambomba plants and Vallisneria, quite heavily planted in one end of the tank. I would say they would like the Amazon Sword, a nice place to rest at night, my Platies seem to like to rest among the plants when the lights go out. The male also likes to hide in the Anubias plant sometimes, a plant I would recomend.

If you ever want fry you will need something like Cambomba or fern for them to hide in, gives them more of a chance untill you find them. If your not too fussed, I've heard that fry can be a pretty nutritious dish for a hungry Platy.

My Platies absolutely love live brine shrimp. I feed them it once a week and watching them chase them is quite amusing. They also like Blood worms, and its quite funny watching them try to eat them, mostly they cant fit them into their mouths hole. I stopped using them though, last time I did I had four mosquittos flying about a few days later!

I think for Platies salt will keep any parasites at bay (Ick, fungus, flukes etc) but it is not needed, just keep the water quality very high, will bring out the colours of the fish too!

 

[blaxicanlatino]

right now, I have a plant called honeywart. I think I;ll get one female galaxy play, female mickey mouse platy, and 1 blue tuxedo platy.

 

[OldMan47]

Hornwort and java moss will both work as hiding places for fry. They provide a tight cluster of small leaves that the fry can swim through easily but the adults find almost impenetrable. You don't want such good cover unless you are ready to deal with lots of survivors. It can be a difficult balance to strike.

 

[blaxicanlatino]

I just have to find out what kind of plant I bought. Theaquarium said that is was a HoneyWort, yet I cant find it on the internet. I kinda just bought it since i was so cheap and I just purchased Flourescent light bulbs