Help! Platy Fry!

[Tehheistmonkey]

So, I got a nice new plant to put into my 10 gallon tank. When I went to put it into the tank, I noticed a tiny fry swimming around. I have 3 male guppies, 3 cory cats and 3 platys. So, I'm assuming its a Platy fry. I've only seen the one, but I'm keeping my eyes out out for others. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do?

 

[5teady_2012]

If you have a breeding trap, put whatever fry you can find in it..

Try to bunch your plants together a bit, this will the fry some cover to hide..

Look in the corners of the tank, fry do tend to swim up to the light and go to corners...

Check the plants for fry..

Also if you have slate or anything, they may be hiding under there..

Depending on the size of the platy, she may not have many..

Write down the date, and keep a breeding diary, then you will roughly know when she is due again (most livebearers drop fry every 4-6 weeks, most at the 4 week mark)

Look for the fish with the slimest belly, you can be sure thats the one thats had them

Good luck

ps, be sure to get some liqiufry to feed the babies

 

[poopsydrew]

Just to add that platy/guppy fry do not need liqui fry, they are quite large enough to take flake and liqui fry pollutes the water quickly.

Drew

 

[5teady_2012]

As stated above liquifry may pollute the water, i personally have used this and had no problem( although i only use to put 1-2 drops in to the breeding trap depending on amount of fry, and not actually put it in to the main tank) but yes i agree flake is fine (i mash loads up in a blender) also i feed mine brine shrimp as well (frozen and dried cubes, whichever as they seem to like both).

Must admit, i feed mine more flake and brine shrimp than liquifry, but sometimes my endlers na dguppy fry are ridiculously small

 

[Amunet]

I have 2 female platies that both gave birth in my 5 gal tank.
I didn't do anything special to make sure the fry would be ok other than putting a netting over the filter intake.
They disappeared for a little while, but then reappeared. Now we have 10 very healthy fat little fry.
You could put them in a net if you want, I would just leave them alone though. If they survive, yay! If not, well you're more than likely going to have more to replace it.
I know that sounds terrible

 

[Tehheistmonkey]

Thanks for all of your help! I think I'm going to try to fed them mashed up flakes and see how they like that. I also have some live baby brine shrimp that my guppies eat that i'll try feeding them in a few days.

I've converted my 1.5 gallon betta tank into a temporary holding tank for all the fry I find. I've managed to get three so far, but a few others have managed to appear and re-appear a few times. And to add to that, my roommates guppy just started having fry tonight. So, I have three of those in my holding tank as well. Do you they will be okay together?