Get Food To Runt Fry

[theotheragentm]

One of my platies had babies about a week ago, and I just found another fry yesterday. It's half the size of the other fry, so I'm having a hard time getting food to it. Is it going to be the same case as with tiny fish and voracious platies? It just has to learn to get its own food?

 

[xoedusk]

I've read platies can give birth over a long period of time. So he may be small because he is a newborn.

I know what you mean by voracious platies and feeding other fish. I try and have two separate flake piles going on, one of the platies and one for the rasboras, who are much less pig-like as far as eating habits. If that doesn't work, you know how platies sometimes hang out at the bottom? Well, you can feed the other fish during that time. Take a few seconds for the platies to realize they're missing out.