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Should They Be Having...
By markfish from the markfish department, Section Ask Guppylog Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 12:16:42 PM PST Tags: (all tags)

Hey everyone, About 1 month ago my female Platy had 4 fry. I saved about 3 of them and the 1 that i didn't died. Then I put the 3 fry in my other 10-gallon aquarium. 2 of the fry died in my 10-gallon aquarium from the filter. There is only 1 more fry left:(

I just want to know if the female Platy should be having fry again soon? Do platys hold sperm cells in them for 6 months like guppies do? If they do then she has problems because she should have had another batch of fry this weekend. Thank you for the help:)

Mark still growing as ~MARKFISH~

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Should They Be Having... | 5 comments (5 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Should They Be Having... (none / 0) (#2)
by gupppies on Sat Oct 23, 2004 at 05:26:47 PM PST

I don't think in all my years I have ever come across a fish being killed by a filter. When I clean my filters, I ofter find fry swimming around happily inside under the sponge.

Fish often die for one reason or another and then the current takes them to the filter where they get sucked in, or if they are too big, they are stuck on the outside. People then see that and think 'the filter killed my fish'.
That's my experience anyway.

Any yes, your platy will have fry again, just don't count on it happening when you're ready for it, one month is only a rough guide.

Re: Should They Be Having... (none / 0) (#4)
by PeterW on Sun Oct 24, 2004 at 12:14:29 PM PST

One of the local petcos has a bunch of guppies inside one of their fixed fiter shrouds.. They can't reach them and they're way too big to get through the slots. I can only assume that they got sucked in as fry and grew up inside. They've been there for months and they're not willing to disassemble the display tanks to get them out. I mean really disassemble.. it is the middle row in a stack and the shroud is glued in place. They have to remove the top tank to get to the middle tank, there is only a few inches gap between them. They've tried to catch them using a net and mirrors to see down through the shroud, but the fish will not cooperate. I tend to believe them that the design of the display tanks is pretty awful because they can't replace the power heads inside the shrouds.. several have failed and they use external filters for those tanks now.

Anyway, they feed them in there and from what I've seen through the slots, they look rather healthy. They certainly get lots of excercise swimming in the current.

Hmm... I wonder if they've tried siphoning them out.. given my unfortunate success with catching adult guppies with siphon hoses, it might be worth a try....

It disturbs me a lot to know that they're stuck inside. Oh, and this is the same place that I got the lampeyes from...

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Re: Should They Be Having... (none / 0) (#5)
by miskairal on Sun Oct 24, 2004 at 07:23:13 PM PST

I wonder what they'll do if any die in there?

I'd be having a go at sucking them out. Can you imagine what it would be like for those poor guppies to suddenly have peace - less current :)
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Re: Should They Be Having... (none / 0) (#1)
by josh on Sat Oct 23, 2004 at 02:56:10 PM PST

yes they should be having more fry soon just watch carefully over the next week

Platys, in my modest experience, are less (none / 0) (#3)
by unclescott on Sat Oct 23, 2004 at 09:52:43 PM PST

predictable than many other livebearers. Also, while a female may drop most or all of the fry at once, sometimes a female will string them out across a week. In that latter situation, if there is not a lot of hiding places or the other fishes are hungry, the fry became suchi.

If you have baby guppies in that tank, the platy fry may just be initially hard to tell apart.

Platys andmost livebearers are terrible at reading a calender anyway. If your tank temperature is below 76, they may be a tad slower because biological processes slow down a bit.

A worse case scenario, and probably not that of your platys, would be where livebearers and other fish have seemed full of fry when they were really full of Camallanus. Watch their vents carefully. If there are ever little worms protruding, then they are infested with the highly contagious Camallanus which don't show themsekves in the fish until 3-4 months after they were originally infected. There are a zillion references to this malady in the Quicklinks. Here's hoping that is not the issue with your fish.

All the best!
u.s.

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