More Oddities...

[LauraFrog]

Yesterday - new female, very young (virgin). Yellowish base with grey and green mottling. Won't pose for the camera. Hiding. I'll put up a pic as soon as I get one, but she's hard to get a photo of. I have a photo of her half-obscured by plants and half-obscured by another fish, up the back of the tank and out of the light in both images.

Today - young male. I think Striker is pregnant at last. If she's not pregnant after what he's been doing to her all afternoon there's something wrong with her. Anyway, does anybody know what the strain is?
took long enough... the other male is completely timid and uninterested in mating. You can see that that doesn't apply to this one, he chases the females and they respond, too. Out of the four females in my tank, one is probably too young to mate, he's already caught two and is chasing the third. Shown in the photos are Striker (copperblack/moss) and Jester (orange dalmatian). I couldn't get a good photo without a female in it... lol

A few months - got a clear photo at last. My Loppie. Out of a standard-issue yellow tuxedo female, pregnant when I bought her to god-knows-what and unable to drop anything that's not pretty. Can't say I'm too miserable about being handed this for free. I have another smaller fish with very similar markings. Seen this before either? Photo is pinned to the bottom, it opens in Paint. Not too great, but she's only about a third of her adult size.

 

[LauraFrog]

I got a photo of the other female - has anybody seen either of these strains (not the tuxedo, I know what that is.)? There are some very nice ones turning up at the LFS, not conventional strains at all. Top to bottom: New female, Ranger (Lop's mum) and my baby, Loppie. (Short for lopsided - she has one black fin and one white one!)

 

[kribensis12]

Nice!!!!! Now i know where i saw those before!!!!!!!!! They sell those at petsmart. The are Labeld Platy Variatus( spelling?). All of them have that black marking on them. I asked the guy abotu them( even though they dont know much!), and he said from what he was told, they are mis-colored version's of there tuxedo one's, so all they do is seperate the not-colored-right tuxedo's, put them in another tank, and jack the price up!

 

[HODDY]

the very last photo is of a tuxedo platy.And the others not 100% sure of sorry.Not very good with platies.Dont buy them always look ill in lfs.

 

[LauraFrog]

Not in mine, they take very good care of their fish and the prices are all the same except for fancy fin varieties.
You could be right that she's a variatus. The orange dalmatian that the male's chasing in the other pic is about 50/50 maculatus/variatus as far as I can tell by the shape of her fins. She's a pretty one.