Preggo Platy

[Cooky_luvs]

Heyas everyone,

My dad bought me two platies at the store, the female is now preggo, can someone send me links etc, on how to care for the babies, such as food. Should I buy a fry food culture? I've looked online but haven't found very helpful info. My dad owns guppies himself (as turtle food) and they breed and breed and they never need any special foods and grow up fine (and I rescue a few..lol), but I want to double check.

~Danielle

P.S. Also out of curiosity can mollies and platies breed together? I have 3 balloon mollies and wouldn't want to mix breed them. Sorry to bug you all but I am pretty ignorant when it comes to livebearer reproduction. I never knew what a platy was until my dad bought them for me. Until then I just passed by them in the store.


Oops maybe I should have payed attention. I just read the helpful pinned posts here @ FishForums. Thanks for the info

Baby guppies, mollies, swordtails, and platies are easy to raise. Finely powdered flake food is taken readily, and there are commercial baby fish foods (such as Liquifry) that can be used as well. They will also peck at algae and aquarium detritus. Once they become a little larger, frozen foods are an excellent way to speed up their growth, with things like bloodworms being popular and easy to buy.

 

[akudewan]

Yes, the pinned topics will have a lot of info

If the males are constantly badgering the mom, you can put her in a breeding trap or something. You can feed a stuff like liquifry, daphnia, infusoria (spelling?) and lots of other things you'll find in your lfs.

Good luck

 

[Weaver]

Just to let you know that mollies and platys cannot interbreed so you will be ok