Platy Pregnant?

[unfitgit]

I have 3 platys all of which i initially thought were male as there lower fins all looked the same however it turns out that the bigger one's fin was just not expanded (dont know how you should describe this) so it looks like i have 2 males and a female.
The female has been acting quite differently over the last good few days, always hidding down the bottom of the tank, sitting still and a white bit underneath her has appeared around the fin area. I dont see any black spots on her, she is a dark orange colour and dont know if this would prevent seeing balck spots.

Anyone any ideas?

 

[Fishy96]

hey
haha i had the same problem but it turned out i was givern three male insted of 1 male and 2 female but it all good now.
but if she is pregnant you should be able to see a black area,
but there are other ways of telling how close she is to birth or if she is pregnant.
she should look really fat and have a low belly. If you look from the top of your tank down to your platy you should be able to see if
her side are kind of out like this picture which tells you shes pregnant or just over feed

and here a picture of a pregnant platy

notice the squared low belly. when a pregnant platys belly become squared its close to birth.

Im sorry if you know what i have just told you and if there is a mistake with the infomation but i dont think there is.
Im not sure if your a newbie to the hobbie or just to the site but i hope this helps.

Fishy96

 

[Platygirl11]

You are supposed to have 1 male to every 3 females. A 1:1 ratio would stress the female way too much, and your current stocking has way too many males. You would need 5 more females to keep the males you have.

 

[unfitgit]

New to fish keeping.

Thanks for the info, i had read about the ratio of male to female however i did think it was only males i had as didn't really want to have fry as dont have anywhere else to put them and new that if i did get fry it would end up extremely over populated.
What do you do if you get fry and it's to many for the tank?

 

[OldMan47]

Platygirl is right when the fish are kept in small populations. If you had 15 or 20 of each gender, an equal number of males and females would not be a problem but in small numbers it is best to have at least 2 females to each male. For a commercial breeder, the ratio would be more like 5 females to each male because the males do not really play a large part in producing fry. A few seconds work and their job is done but the female is tied up for a month developing the fry. Excess males just means more hungry mouths to a commercial breeder.

 

[Fishy96]

yep i know