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[fishboy1232]

thats bad, 30 fully grown platies in a 10 gal, probably an ammonia problem then which is deadly to fish so should always be 0, did you cyle the tank before addibng fish?

i forgot what was cycling the tank was???

 

[lilfishie]

Cycleing is the most important start to your tank, if your ammonia or nitrite is above 0 and you add fish, then its bye bye fish, cycling allows the 'friendly' bacteria that support the fish to 'develope' with out this fish would just keep dieing, normally cycling consists of adding ammonia regually then seeing how long it takes to drop to 0, if under 12 hours then all good, the just allow the nitrite to lower

 

[fishboy1232]

Cycleing is the most important start to your tank, if your ammonia or nitrite is above 0 and you add fish, then its bye bye fish, cycling allows the 'friendly' bacteria that support the fish to 'develope' with out this fish would just keep dieing, normally cycling consists of adding ammonia regually then seeing how long it takes to drop to 0, if under 12 hours then all good, the just allow the nitrite to lower

2 week after i set it up they started to die

 

[lilfishie]

so you added them striaght to the tank? right in order to try save some of the others then follow THIS and good luck

 

[kpintheshed]

guppies can not breed with playies under any circumstances, they have a complete different genus, guppies can breed with mollies, platies can breed with swordtails but thats it, how long have you had her? i'm thinking she was pregnant when brought

i had two female platys and two males and i can tell you they did breed but did not last long as the gene was week, but they kind of looked like very small tadpoles. this happen when i first got my tank and didn't know much about fish until i started researching them.

 

[Xavier]

guppies can not breed with playies under any circumstances, they have a complete different genus, guppies can breed with mollies, platies can breed with swordtails but thats it, how long have you had her? i'm thinking she was pregnant when brought

i had two female platys and two males and i can tell you they did breed but did not last long as the gene was week, but they kind of looked like very small tadpoles. this happen when i first got my tank and didn't know much about fish until i started researching them.

the females were already pregnant. they can mate but nothings going to happen. my male sailfin molly mated with my female sword all the time, but it couldn't produce

 

[lilfishie]

guppies can not breed with playies under any circumstances, they have a complete different genus, guppies can breed with mollies, platies can breed with swordtails but thats it, how long have you had her? i'm thinking she was pregnant when brought

i had two female platys and two males and i can tell you they did breed but did not last long as the gene was week, but they kind of looked like very small tadpoles. this happen when i first got my tank and didn't know much about fish until i started researching them.

you may have seen them breeding but the fry i am certain were 100% platy, guppies are a complete different genus there for cannot breed with platies, they may try but it will never result in fry

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I agree with lilfishie, its simply imposible to crossbreed guppys and platys, its just as imposible to do this as it is to crossbreed a cory and a pleco etc- they might both be catfish, but that doesn't mean they can crossbreed, the same is true for livebearers like platys and guppys.