I Can't Find My Platy Fry!

[snork6]

So I have one of my platys by her self in a 5 gallon tank to give berth. She has been In it for about a week now and she finally gave berth (or at least I think she did) last night. She is small now and not fat any more. My problem is I can't find the fry! I have 3 plants in The tank ( little plastic ones) and I have searched them down and can't find any fry. The filter if covered up with some fabric so they didn't get sucked up and I have a hard time believing she ate all the fry becouse she was really big. She probably had about 40 fry in her. Thanks

 

[betta fish]

Did you actually see any fry in the tank? what kind of filter do you have? have you opened it up and looked inside even if it looks like they can't get sucked up they may have done, failing this she may have eaten them.

 

[snork6]

Yes she did have them I was able to catch 1 fry. I know they didn't get sucked up by the filter becouse I have bred guppies in this tank before and I never had a problem of them getting sucked up. I just going crazy trying to find the other baby's .

 

[Munroco]

I recently found an adult ram in my filter. I have no idea how it got there. It certainly didn't swim in unless it defied the current and swam through the outlet pipe. So although you think its not possible, it might be worth having a look.

 

[NickAu]

 
I recently found an adult ram in my filter.

 
have you opened it up and looked inside even if it looks like they can't get sucked up they may have done

 
I read a post not long ago on this site, Where a member found a missing female betta that was living in the hang on back filter for a few weeks.
When I clean my canister filter now I always empty it thru a net, I have found shrimp happily living in the filter.
 
Maybe she ate them

 

[betta fish]

Yep, I think it is one of two possibilities she either ate them or they are in the filter I can't imagine it would be that difficult to see them in a 5 gallon with 3 plastic plants 

  if she is still in there perhaps take her out and see if they appear, do you have gravel? sometimes I have seen fry chased down into gravel in a bid to escape but they usually don't stay there too long other times they float near the surface but I would imagine you would see them flitting about up there if they were.

 

[guppiegirlie]

My platy fry hid in the rocky gravel when mine gave birth, I had quite big pea gravel in my previous tank and found the platy fry loved hiding in it.

Quite a lot of my fry survived too (I just left them in the tank, didn't remove them before birthing as I didn't even know she was pregnant!)

So perhaps they could be hiding there?