Monster Platy

[Butch]

I want to see what's biggest platy you guys have. I have 4 inch long red wag female platy along with few 3inch long ones mainly MM types.

 

[nosoup4you]

How do we know that this isn't another 'fish story'? LOL Do you have pics?

 

[LauraFrog]

4 inches I have seen also. It's the biggest I've seen but I swear to god I'm not lying. If I ever see one of those again I am SO buying it, but both times I've seen those monsters have been large females in the same pet store when I've been away for days and in no position to buy new fish.

Swordtails which are in the same genus get much larger, I have seen a female at six inches.

 

[fish48]

butch & laurafrog are definitely right platys can grow to 4 inches long .

 

[jonnyf84]

4 inches, i've been keeping fish for a long time, if i had to choose i would say livebearers are my speciality and i have never seen a platy bigger than 3 inches, the biggest i've owned was maybe 2.5 inches, some pics of these monsters would be fantastic.

 

[nosoup4you]

I was just giving Butch a hard time...trying to goad him into posting a pic. I don't doubt that they can grow that large. I've never seen it myself, but have heard of 4 inch Platies before.

 

[jonnyf84]

Its up to Butch to prove my suspicions wrong then, give us some pics of this monster

 

[nosoup4you]

Considering that a lot of Platies that you find have been interbred with Swords, and Swords DO get over 4 inches, it isn't all that unreasonable to think that a Platy might reach that size. Would LOVE to see it!

 

[jonnyf84]

ah well if we'r talking about cross breeding then its a different story.

 

[omega59]

my gree varitus platy is about 4 inches.

 

[nosoup4you]

Will someone get me a pic of one of these behemoths?

 

[helterskelter]

All cultavated platies and swords are crossed already it's just depending what body shape the breeder want, this is done by breeding the desired fish back with a platy or sword.

This is why u can get platy body shape but the size of swords but their far from common
Last tine i saw platies over 3" was at least 7-8 years ago

So their possoble but not common

 

[Butch]

Sorry, i forget this thread so here is my picture of female red wag platy.

 

[nosoup4you]

Wow, what are you feeding that thing? Now we know where all the missing pets in Butch's neighborhood have gone...

 

[Butch]

Wow, what are you feeding that thing? Now we know where all the missing pets in Butch's neighborhood have gone...

Now you knows about what I feed to my monster platy....you're on her menu tonight!

There are lots of missing pets ads in my neighborhoods lately lol.