Platy breeding gene pool

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Platies can breed at about 1 1/2 inch for females. you can raise several in a 5 gallon tank.
 
My rearing tank will be 10 gal. I have 40 fry right now that will go in it. When should I take fish that I don't want for breeding stock to LFS?
 
I now have 90 fish, started with 4. Hmm, rabbits aren't that promiscuous after all.
 
I'm hoping to pick up a pair at the lfs today that may create some colors that I've never seen before. The male is a "sunset tux" (goldish-orange turning to red toward the tail and the usuall black"tux") with the darkest cleanest markings I've seen in a while. The female is a red tail dalmation (white body, red tail, and black spots) . I'm hoping the results might be calico, and calico tux???

I'm still sore from missing out on a pair of white wag hi-fins...
 
Good luck with your platy project ewurm.Im doing something similar with common guppies,just started this time but years ago had a strain I had been woking on for 10 years.I agree with the maintain 3 groups and cross them every few generations thats what I did.And I would also very occasionally introduce a male that had characteristics I was breeding for from the lfs feeder tank.Great fun long term project. :thumbsup:
 
Thanks for the encouragement.
 
Are you letting them drop their broods in the tank or seperating them into a breeding trap / net?

Do platy's eat their young?

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you should breed belonesox, and selectively breed them until they are all 2 ft long. That would be awesome :D
 
Keep all the fish of one sex and buy the other sex from a diff LFS or supplier to keep the gene pool varied. ;-) I've seen blue/sunset variants- blue body with a bit of orange on the dorsal fin and uppermost region of the body.
 
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