Platty Fry With Unusual Colour Variations

[stiffler69]

Look at the colours on my 5 week old platty fry here this one is light blue with some dark blue spots but her top fin is a red/orange colour its a great variant of colouring what ive not seen before?

 

[helterskelter]

nice fish you got there, good luck with rearing them and soon your be granparents

 

[babybell911]

I had one like this he was blue mickey mouse platy with orange fins. they grow up to be beautiful congratulations x

 

[LauraFrog]

One of my adult females looks a bit like that, she has dark edge on her anal fin just like that fry.

Is it just me or is the top right fry (first photo) spotty? I have a red dalmatian and loads of her fry. I'm currently working with two rare strains or I would select for lighter fry and try to breed a pink dalmatian. But that fry seems to have gotten its spots younger than mine, most of my dali fry don't get spots for six weeks after they're born.

 

[stiffler69]

platy fry seem to get their colours really early i have about 40 all with spots only a couple of days old

 

[kribensis12]

Those ones are usually sold as: Platy Variatus( at my lfs's). But nice fish none the less!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LauraFrog]

You reckon that's a variatus? It seems to have the maculatus body shape to me.

A lot of mine are born red or pink and darken as they get older. My yellow tuxedo throws black and white fry which colour up at two months without fail - most are pink, yellow, orange or red tuxedos.