Giant Platy Fry?

[fishkeeper694]

i found late lat night, a massive platy fry that is really big for a platy and im wonderin if i should check the rest of my tank for fry? x

 

[FishBlast]

i found late lat night, a massive platy fry that is really big for a platy and im wonderin if i should check the rest of my tank for fry? x

How massive? It must have been there for over a month. Unless the platy mother had a lot of proteins in her diet.

 

[fishkeeper694]

i found late lat night, a massive platy fry that is really big for a platy and im wonderin if i should check the rest of my tank for fry? x

How massive? It must have been there for over a month. Unless the platy mother had a lot of proteins in her diet.

like 1.5 cm big which considering ive only jus found it xD its quite cute tbf, i found annother platy fry last night as well which was half the size of Tigger (what i called the big one)

 

[FishBlast]

like 1.5 cm big which considering ive only jus found it xD its quite cute tbf, i found annother platy fry last night as well which was half the size of Tigger (what i called the big one)

1.5 cm is around 2.5 months old, maybe 2 months old if well fed. My biggest fry (swordtail) is 2.5 months old and 1.5cm long.
So I guess your platy fry survived for a long time there. At this point I think other fish won't consider it a meal unless you have some really big adults in there. I only have teenage fish there and a catfish that could eat anything small but doesn't.

 

[OldMan47]

As Fishblast has said, the fry at 1.5cm is not a newborn, it is at least 4 weeks old. The smaller fry may well have come from the same female on her next drop. A typical time between drops is around 4 weeks more or less which matches your fish size difference.
+1 to Fishblast on this subject.