Platy Breeding

[Erica]

Hey there. I am new to this forum and have done a fair bit of reading, but have not yet come across an answer to this question...

Is there any way to determine the colouring of the Platy's babies?

i.e. I have a pregnant Platy, her name is Laverne, she is a gorgeous pale yellow with irridescent scales (they shimmer blue/purple in light) and black "scratch" marks down her sides. She's really beautiful - and young.

I THINK she's mated with the dominant male in my tank : he's a red mickey mouse (black tail and fins) - he's HANDSOME! His name, funnily enough, is Mickey.

Mickey is obsessed with Minnie though, so there is a slight chance that Mari, the orange sunset (shades of orange thru to goldy yellow tones) mated with Laverne.

Is there any formula or known fact for knowing what these babies will look like and whether some of her offspring will also be yellow with or without the black scratch marks?

I wish I could post a photo of her, she's just so pretty!!



Erica.

 

[ferrikins]

If there more than one male in the tank could be any of them, but the good thing is if there mother is the best looking one, your have very good looking fry.


Best way to get a good line going is to get virgin females, and mate them with the male you want as soon as this is done, remove the male so he does'nt continue to stress her.

If your realy serious about color breeding, I sugest a tank for the female and a tank for the males, at least then you can garrentea witch make has mated with your virgin females.


HTH

 

[Erica]

Thanks for your reply, very helpful!

I am not serious about breeding to the point that I can afford to purchase yet another tank and set-up... I would love to though, if I could.

I do want to keep her first lot of babies to pick from though. I think this would be her first lot of babies because she was only 1/2 inch long when I bought her, very small. She's getting more yellow as she gets older.

Thanks again for your advice. One day, I hope to have a couple of tanks... but probably not in Laverne's lifetime unfortunately !

 

[willywonka099]

Well as far as a fry tank march your but too wal-mart get some 40 + qt. plastic containers .... a sponge filter and some bbs !!! will work fine and bbs will make them grow like weeds

 

[Angry_Platy]

You will know if it is the fry from the wagtail male as ther wagtail colouring will show fairly early....they will be born with little black tails.....SOOOO cute

Remember though that a female can be impregnated by a few males around the same time....so you may get babies whos fathers are different....

Thats what I love about platy fry....if you have a few males you never know who the father is until they are quite a bit older

 

[Erica]

Thanks to all for your replies... the exciting day came earlier than expected!! I went to the local pet store and bought a fine-net trap for babies, put Laverne in it and over night, I now have four babies. I caught the existing baby which is about 2 weeks older and put it in there too.

I can already see that they are Laverne's fry. Two of them bear the same tail markings!!!

Her tail is clear-pale-yellow with black on the top and bottom - two of them have these markings and the four of them are clearly pale yellow (yes, this may change as they get older, I realise!).

Thanks everyone, I am really excited!!

 

[Da_Oz]

You can take a blue platy male and a blue platy female. Have 35 fry and the fry be red, yellow and orange. With not one blue fish. I got a pair of blue platy fry rasied them bred them and this is what I got.