Platy breeding gene pool

[Bleeding]

two dozen, thats more than ive ever gotten!

 

[ewurm]

Its a miracle! Someone has answered my rant! Thank you sir thank you!
Yep, a record brood. Last months brood is almost ready to go to the lfs, after I select some for breeding. This will be my fourth generation, with no inbreeding.

 

[ewurm]

Now found #'s 25-26. Unfortunately, the mother died in birthing.

 

[ewurm]

2nd Brood. Found my 32nd fish. Got to see one of them being born. A very neat experience. It was born tail first.

 

[mero]

Platies can haved 50+ fry per brood, if females are grown to large size. And they drop fry all together, but it can take a day to get it done. I have had guppies drop 100+ fry. Livebearer biology is very interesting.

 

[ewurm]

Mine took a day to drop 40 between two females, at least thats what I managed to collect alive.

 

[Princley]

Just feed some of the offspring to your monster fish

lol i agree .. breed mollies and swords in more of a salt tank just for feeders to my salts.......platies would work great to

 

[guppy]

Yeah, they birth them one at atime until done, with a big brood it can take a while. I like mollies and platies as feeders and when running plant troughs usually add some to the tubs as mosquito control.

 

[ewurm]

Mine won't be feeders, I'm trying to breed them to develop some interesting color forms. We'll see how this latest large brood turns out.

 

[ewurm]

Also, the breeder net is getting full. I'm going to set up a rearing tank. What size do they reach maturity? I don't want any inbreeding going on. You know what that leads to. Driving a rusty pickup, poverty, and poor grammar.