Help! Platy fry.... in an all 'male tank!'

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Substrate blending in!
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Errbill wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 19:30 pm I came on to post a question about platy fry and thought I’d add it to this thread.
So I have 4 platys - 3 females and a male.
I performed a 50% water change this morning and took out all my plastic decorations and plants and gave them a clean too.
We noticed 2 little translucent fish hiding behind a zebra snail and haven’t seen them since.
I looked this evening and there is a platy,must be a week or 2 old as it has colouration just swimming around out of nowhere.
I literally emptied the tank of all decorations and 50% of the water and it wasn’t there then.
Where the hell was that hiding?
In/around the filter, the substrate or more likely right in plain sight :D
As mentioned they are translucent and really do camouflage in very well with most parts of their environment :)
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Also found a couple of pics and a video of a singular fry that :)
The orange fry in the tank are swordtail/platy cross fry (plat-tail). The ones in the hatchery are just platy fry :)


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https://youtu.be/w_YEo94UT7I
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I can’t get over how beautiful this lad is!

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