Help!about To Give Birth! Wut To Do!?!?!

[kaylawuzhere]

My Platy is about to give birth. I bought some floating plants and plants one the bottom. I dont have a trap (?) but i do have a small fish bowl. I was thinking to put her in the small bow with no other fish and when shes done to let her back in the tank with 3 other platys. (2 babys about 1 cm long, and a "teenager" about 2.5 cm long) wut to do?!?! should i leave her in the tank shes in now? she circling the floating plants, so she wants them to stay there but wut to do after birth?!?! Help!

 

[Harlequins]

I'd leave her drop where she is,putting her into a bowl will probably stress her at this late stage,turn the lights off and leave her be,the fry are good at hiding,so will hide out in the plants.

It could take a few hours for her to drop all her fry.they'll be fine for a few days and will live off their egg sac,if you want to save them,you could always buy a breeding trap,but they'll soon outgrow this in a few weeks.

Or set up a fry tank,this could be simple like a clean plastic storage box.buy a cheap filter & heater and away you go.

 

[kaylawuzhere]

Thanks so much, but how long to leave them in a fry tank, and do i put the mom and plants in the fry tank, let her give birth (maybe a couple hours) and put her back in big tank, and wait for fry to grow up? and is a filter necesary?

 

[kaylawuzhere]

And wut is the chance of survival in a fry tank?

 

[chigwellhammer]

I believe the mum eats the fry so its just the fry you want to put into a place on there own.