Male Platies
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Yes but they will have babies every two minutes, breed like rabbits, one male to three females.
Sorry brain not in gear read that wrong, if you buy them all at the same time they might be ok, but they will sort a pecking order out to see who is the boss.
Sorry brain not in gear read that wrong, if you buy them all at the same time they might be ok, but they will sort a pecking order out to see who is the boss.
Yeah, you can. What size tank do you want, and how many males are you thinking of? Just the two?
Usually, it works better if you have more males, just to spread out the aggression. Of course, a big enough tank for them to be able to get away from each other is a must too. Lots of decorations and plants will help. But it really comes down to the fish. Most times this will work, but ocasionally you get a male that just won't tolerate being with all males.
Usually, it works better if you have more males, just to spread out the aggression. Of course, a big enough tank for them to be able to get away from each other is a must too. Lots of decorations and plants will help. But it really comes down to the fish. Most times this will work, but ocasionally you get a male that just won't tolerate being with all males.
Tokis-Phoenix
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What other fish do you already have or plan to get?
Tokis-Phoenix
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A group of 5male platys with the 4 danios would be good, you might also want to get some corys as they make peaceful bottom dwelling fish, do you know how to cycle a tank yet?
My uncle who gave me the Platies he didn't want gave me his used filter sponges to use and told me to wait a couple of weeks before adding any more fish, but do you think I should get a couple more platies tomorrow or will they be ok
Tokis-Phoenix
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When your tank is brand new it has nothing to break down the ammonia that fish produce and nitrites, left alone these toxins build up and kill your fish. Fish pee and poop ammonia so this is a problem. There is a type of beneficial bacteria that will grow in your filter sponge that is capable of breaking down these harmful toxins but it also needs a source of ammonia to survive.
When you cycle a tank you are basically growing the right bacteria in your new filter sponge carefully making sure that you don't put more fish in the tank than what the filter bacteria can handle in ammonia load terms. As the tank matures the bacteria will become more and more stable and the tank will stop cycling.
You need to buy some test kits for ammonia, nitrates and nitrites(you are using dechlorinator/water conditioner right?) so you can accuratly moniter your water quality, ammonia and nitrites should be 0 while nitrates should be under 40 in a healthy tank. If ammonia or nitrites rise above 0 you should do a water change with dechlorinator. During the first couple of months your tanks water stats will be quite unstable so you have to stock slowly and carefully making sure you don't add more than 3 fish a week of platy size preferably.
Any water that goes into the tank must be dechlorinated as tap water contains chlorine amoungst other things and will kill off your beneficial filter bacteria, the same goes if you need to clean your filter sponge -only clean it in water from water changes and never in tap water, also don't clean it out more than once every 10days or over clean the sponge(only remove the gunky bits) otherwise you'll kill off too much beneficial bacteria from the cleaning process or starve it.
As long as you don't overstock your tank and only mix compatable healthy fish species and do 20-30% weekly water changes and follow the rest of this info you should do well as far as keeping a heathly tank goes
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When you cycle a tank you are basically growing the right bacteria in your new filter sponge carefully making sure that you don't put more fish in the tank than what the filter bacteria can handle in ammonia load terms. As the tank matures the bacteria will become more and more stable and the tank will stop cycling.
You need to buy some test kits for ammonia, nitrates and nitrites(you are using dechlorinator/water conditioner right?) so you can accuratly moniter your water quality, ammonia and nitrites should be 0 while nitrates should be under 40 in a healthy tank. If ammonia or nitrites rise above 0 you should do a water change with dechlorinator. During the first couple of months your tanks water stats will be quite unstable so you have to stock slowly and carefully making sure you don't add more than 3 fish a week of platy size preferably.
Any water that goes into the tank must be dechlorinated as tap water contains chlorine amoungst other things and will kill off your beneficial filter bacteria, the same goes if you need to clean your filter sponge -only clean it in water from water changes and never in tap water, also don't clean it out more than once every 10days or over clean the sponge(only remove the gunky bits) otherwise you'll kill off too much beneficial bacteria from the cleaning process or starve it.
As long as you don't overstock your tank and only mix compatable healthy fish species and do 20-30% weekly water changes and follow the rest of this info you should do well as far as keeping a heathly tank goes
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Tokis-Phoenix
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If the platys are fine with each other for the mean time and aern't harrassing each other then i would just leave them be for now. I would seriously advise you buy your own test kits for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates as lfs's(local fish store's) will often tell you that your water quality is "fine" when actually it is not so good. You will need to test your water quality alot in the first couple of weeks as well so not only will you know what exactly is going on in your water quality but you also won't have to walk down to your lfs every time you need water tested if you buy your own kits 
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Tokis-Phoenix
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Glad to help, if you have any other questions feel free to ask
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