Thanks guys.
NeonBlueLeon said:
Very nice, and congrats on the fry! Looking forward to seeing the babies grow!
Thanks, I had 2 female and 2 male guppies in the tank that the fry are in-I didn't even notice them even when I uprooted everything. They just appeared. I find the growth rate of platies to be very slow we may be a while lol.
Mamashack said:
Her blue eyes are more obvious on the 2nd shot. She's a real beauty!
Looking forward to seeing pics of the fry when they are big enough and brave enough to be seen out in the open!
I hardly see the fry myself they are masters of stealth. I panic all the time, but trying to find 2 half cm long fry in a 64L tank is hard! I should just leave them to it,. they have been surviving like this for years so it's their instinct.
*just had visions of me in a ghillie suit doing a stake out*
Blondielovesfish said:
She's very nice!
I wonder how often the blue eye variation occurs?
Thanks, I have never seen it before, maybe something to do with colouring? I have never seen a white platy before, both her and the male were white with the blue eyes. I am hoping I have a boy and a girl. If I breed the boy to the girl I will have fry that might not have the blue eyes but will be carriers. If I have a male fry I will breed him back to the mum, that way the strain should have more chance of being white with blue eyes.
As with everything genetics is a funny one to work out. We don't know what is in the females strain or the males strain.
For example my dad bred rottweilers and german shepherds when I was young. The mother was a long haired silver sable and the dad a longhaired black and tan. She had 3 litters in her life. Every single one had a white puppy in it! We discovered that in the males line, his great grandparents were solid white so he was a carrier!
I love messing about with guppy / platy colours it's very interesting to see the results.