New Platy

sunpirate2u · Jan 18, 2008

Here is my new male. At first I thought it was a prego female

. So I have two females and one male. Would that be ok?
How often will they breed, how long until birth, and how many per batch? I have a two year old white micky platy and a ~5 month old new platy.

White platy

stiffler69 · Jan 18, 2008

From what i can see on the pics that looks like a male so not alot to worry about if it is if it isnt it doesnt look very heavily pregnant to me

sunpirate2u · Jan 18, 2008

yeah I thought that too but i just got it today so it may be holding its fins in :sad:

If u do think its a female say so

~thanks

sunpirate2u · Jan 19, 2008

OH NOooooooooo! The new male is herrassing my white female!!!! Now she is floating in a corner! What am I gonna do? It may be becuse the 2nd female is too young to mate so the male is picking on the white female. Some1 help! :sad:

5teady_2012 · Jan 19, 2008

sunpirate2u said:
OH NOooooooooo! The new male is herrassing my white female!!!! Now she is floating in a corner! What am I gonna do? It may be becuse the 2nd female is too young to mate so the male is picking on the white female. Some1 help!

I breed lots of livebearers and the one you have bought are not new, they are called diffrent names all over the country but near where i live we call them, high fin tuxedo platy's

I always stick to the rule of having 4 females to every male, that way they wont get bothered much by male.

As for how often they breed, this will be between 4-6 weeks for most livebearers. (endlers between 17-24 days)

You can get anywhere from 10-150 fry but generally you tend to get around 30-50 most of the time, depends on the size of the fish.

The most one of mine has had was a extra large balloon molly which had 124 fry.

Hope this helps you.

Here is one of my, tiger platys having babies

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Hollymolly4 · Jan 19, 2008

Looks like a male to me.
I agree with the above post, get another female or two. I have only one male with my 3 female platy and one male molly to my 5 other female.
Love the mirror image pic! The last pic, I have one of those, real pretty.
Good luck!

5Teady, great video! I've been keeping fish for a couple years now and had yet to see one give birth. That was pretty neat!

5teady_2012 · Jan 19, 2008

Hollymolly4 said:
Looks like a male to me.
I agree with the above post, get another female or two. I have only one male with my 3 female platy and one male molly to my 5 other female.
Love the mirror image pic! The last pic, I have one of those, real pretty.
Good luck!

5Teady, great video! I've been keeping fish for a couple years now and had yet to see one give birth. That was pretty neat!

Got few vids ready to add m8 of a few of my fish giving birth, like these mollies for example, they have now dropped so i will add the vid of it.

Click to see my 3 extra large pregnant balloon mollies

LauraFrog · Jan 20, 2008

Definitely a male. See the gap between gonopodium and the base of the tail? If it was a female with clamped fins, this would not be visible. Also, the pelvic fins are flowing. I have seen females that clamp their fins and look like males, but never with the anal fin clamped and all the other fins relaxed. I have a male with a great fat potbelly and he chases the females around the tank. I have 8 females to one male. Admittedly it's a strain tank (an OVERSTOCKED strain tank) and he's a pretty good example of the strain so I want them all bred to him. But still, he's lucky!