Care of baby platies

Mandy Leech · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

We've recently bought a very small aquarium. For the first 4 weeks we
were recommended to purchase 2 small fish or dwarf frog and fish. We
opted for a Platy and African dwarf frog - this was Saturday, 8th June.
Subsequently, our Platy has delivered, upto now 10 babies, the numbers
are growing each day. Can anyone tell us how many babies may arrive?

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Mandy Leech

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Jürgen Exner · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

Mandy Leech wrote:
> [...] Subsequently, our Platy has delivered, upto now 10 babies, the
> numbers are growing each day. Can anyone tell us how many babies may
> arrive?

As platies have no moral objections to incest their proliferation is only
limited by the amount of available food and space and the cleanliness of
tank and water.

jue

Terry · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 12

Find a good LFS who will take your babies and either continue breeding them
or give all but one away Smile

I breed them for my LFS, i don't charge them or anything but always comes in
useful for a discount on equipment etc. Smile