Help! Platy fry.... in an all 'male tank!'
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In/around the filter, the substrate or more likely right in plain sightErrbill 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?
As mentioned they are translucent and really do camouflage in very well with most parts of their environment
To the tune of “the saints go marching in”:
Oh fluffy sheep! Oh fluffy sheep! Oh fluffy sheep are wonderful, they’re white Welsh and fluffy! Oh fluffy sheep are wonderful!
Oh fluffy sheep! Oh fluffy sheep! Oh fluffy sheep are wonderful, they’re white Welsh and fluffy! Oh fluffy sheep are wonderful!
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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
https://youtu.be/w_YEo94UT7I
The orange fry in the tank are swordtail/platy cross fry (plat-tail). The ones in the hatchery are just platy fry
https://youtu.be/w_YEo94UT7I
To the tune of “the saints go marching in”:
Oh fluffy sheep! Oh fluffy sheep! Oh fluffy sheep are wonderful, they’re white Welsh and fluffy! Oh fluffy sheep are wonderful!
Oh fluffy sheep! Oh fluffy sheep! Oh fluffy sheep are wonderful, they’re white Welsh and fluffy! Oh fluffy sheep are wonderful!