Up To My Ears In Fry...

[LauraFrog]

Good point - but there are four females lol.
I found somebody who can take a big lot, fish ponds in the backyard. I was also talking to LFS's away from my immediate area (an hours drive away) and most of them have relatively dull platies compared to what I'm having born, so maybe they'll take some. I'll figure something out. I live in Australia, in far north QLD, so I doubt that there's too many people who can take fry up here.

 

[theotheragentm]

What's the weather like there? Outdoor ponds, even if the weather is relatively warm, will fluctuate quite a bit. That might spell trouble for the fish. Also, you want to make sure there is no way for fish to get into local waterways. A flood will send fish right out into drains and streams a lot of times.

 

[LauraFrog]

Thats why I have to be careful, I can't just put them in my dam because that overflows into a creeek and that would be a total disaster. The weather up here is tropical, and I know a lot of people with goldfish and guppies and gambusia etc. in ponds that are all fine. Goldfish can take just about anything, but gups and gambies are livebearers.
I just rescued another lot, but I'm not worried about these. I can afford to look after them etc. the only problem is finding homes for them. These are out of my tuxedo female. There are less than twenty and so far the entire lot are either patched, dalmatian or tuxedo. All of them have black markings and one is red and black. Most vividly marked fry I have ever seen. They are hot! I think they'll sell like hotcakes, there aren't many that colour available up here.

 

[wendyngd]

Why not donate to lfs? That's what I DID WITH SOME Baby mollly fry..now I DON'T WORRY IF MY GIRLS GET PREGNant because I HAVE AN OUTLET FOR THE FRY....in USA -Wendy

 

[dunchp]

Why not donate to lfs? That's what I DID WITH SOME Baby mollly fry..now I DON'T WORRY IF MY GIRLS GET PREGNant because I HAVE AN OUTLET FOR THE FRY....in USA -Wendy

Assuming you have cultivated platies, you will find that some of the 84 fry will look like their mother and others will regress to wild type and will be duller; depending on what you decide to do you will need to cull these wild type fish as, if you don't you will end up with all dull fish in future generations (these fish are neither wild nor cultivated and are not worth much.

One of the keys to successful breeding is culling; I know it is difficult but if you breed cultivated species you have no choice.

Do not put them in 'the dam'; I think it is illegal in Australia to put tropical fish in watercourses anyway because, if they escape the effect on the natural, endemic species could be devastating; in the UK, we have cold spells which are able to kill off any tropical species irresponsibly added to watercourses, in Australia they do not.

I have friends is Texas who use totes; just buy a few plastic containers of around 50 litres and split the fish in there.

There are many species which have been eradicated in the wild by the introduction of non native (i.e. feral) species; the species Allotoca goslinei for instance have been outcompeted by the common swordtail.

 

[merry78]

please don't put them in the dam!!!!!!!! Apart from being illegal, our native fish just can't compete with livebearers.

an lfs will take them, i go to one lfs with my good babies and get store credit for them, then the same day, i go to another lfs with my dull babies and give them in free. It has always worked for me.

In the meantime, just go ahead on the plastic tub idea for growout tanks, you can get some that will hold about 30 gallons from Crazy Clarks for about $15......