Fry!

[Yavin]

Just after some advice. My tank is only two weeks old and two Sunset platies have been in there for 7 days. Today while carrying out a water change I have spotted a couple of fry in the tank.

Firstly will the parents eat them? I have limited room and plants in the tank as it is a Fluval Edge. If i did want them to survive do I need to get special food or small compartment for them in the tank?

Cheers

 

[-FighterFishh]

Just after some advice. My tank is only two weeks old and two Sunset platies have been in there for 7 days. Today while carrying out a water change I have spotted a couple of fry in the tank.

Firstly will the parents eat them? I have limited room and plants in the tank as it is a Fluval Edge. If i did want them to survive do I need to get special food or small compartment for them in the tank?

Cheers

If you wanted to keep them, I wouldn't do anything except provide lots of hiding spaces, unless of course you definitely wanted both of them, in which case I'd probably be tempted to get a breeding net..or whatever they are Never had to use them myself, the biOrb has too many hiding places!

 

[OldMan47]

If you can provide some cover for the fry, some should survive and thrive. I use java moss in most of my livebearer tanks for cover because it will grow in almost any light and provides a gret place for fry to hide. This is a clump in my guppy tank.

This is a smaller clump in my Heterandria formosa tank.