lovemyplatties
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Hello everyone! I'm totally new to this fish world...I have been looking for a nice forum where I could actually read people's experiences...find this forum/site the best.
My question is pretty general...what do platties need in order to survive? I have a one gallon fish bowl w/ two mickey mouse platties...male and female. There were three before two females, one male. After about two weeks the female died; I read somewhere that i could isolate the female when it's about to give birth. Isolation, from my experience, was a bad idea...she died
I am not sure thought if either or both female platties gave birth...I now have 11 fry fishies. I found a small fish bowl at a garage sale...so they'll be there for awhile.
So...my questions really are: What can I do to keep my older platties happy? I feed them tetramin thrice a day...the fish bowl has airstones (tiny one) in it. Is there a site that I could check out that'll have pictures of what a healthy platty looks like...and a site that'll tell me what kind of diseases they can get...with pictures? Last but not the least, i read somewhere that I had to separate the fry from the older platties in order for the fry to survive, otherwise they'll get eaten. I'm not sure if I should follow that advice since the same site's advise killed my other platty (I isolated the pregnant female from the rest).
Everyone's input is gladly appreciated
My question is pretty general...what do platties need in order to survive? I have a one gallon fish bowl w/ two mickey mouse platties...male and female. There were three before two females, one male. After about two weeks the female died; I read somewhere that i could isolate the female when it's about to give birth. Isolation, from my experience, was a bad idea...she died
I am not sure thought if either or both female platties gave birth...I now have 11 fry fishies. I found a small fish bowl at a garage sale...so they'll be there for awhile.
So...my questions really are: What can I do to keep my older platties happy? I feed them tetramin thrice a day...the fish bowl has airstones (tiny one) in it. Is there a site that I could check out that'll have pictures of what a healthy platty looks like...and a site that'll tell me what kind of diseases they can get...with pictures? Last but not the least, i read somewhere that I had to separate the fry from the older platties in order for the fry to survive, otherwise they'll get eaten. I'm not sure if I should follow that advice since the same site's advise killed my other platty (I isolated the pregnant female from the rest).
Everyone's input is gladly appreciated
