baby platy/molly with ghost shrimp - Aquarium Advice

dubleshortlatte · 02-20-2006, 07:59 PM

So, I have both pregnant mollies and platies...I found one baby at the surface of my tank and scooped him out. I can't tell if it's a molly or a platy...will he be safe if i put him in my 5 gal with ghost shrimp? Thanks!

rollin_22 · 02-22-2006, 02:35 PM

i would say that he would be safe..... fry are very fast, and i dont know if ghost shrimp will be able to catch it....

good luck

fish_4_all · 02-22-2006, 07:18 PM

Ghost shrimp can catch them and I lost many guppy and sword fry to ghost shrimp. They will wait until they get close and can hang on well enough to actually swim with the fry and eat the tail at the same time. I have had as many as a dozen fry disappear overnight in a 2.5 gallon tank with 6 ghost shrimp in it.

If you put it in there, don't be surprised if it dissappears or you find it with missing fins.

dubleshortlatte · 02-23-2006, 04:11 AM

phew, thanks for the heads up. I have them in a plastic breeding bin sort of contraption for now...good thing I didn't put them in with the shrimp!

02-20-2006, 07:59 PM	#1
dubleshortlatte Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: the CO Posts: 23	baby platy/molly with ghost shrimp So, I have both pregnant mollies and platies...I found one baby at the surface of my tank and scooped him out. I can't tell if it's a molly or a platy...will he be safe if i put him in my 5 gal with ghost shrimp? Thanks! __________________ -Kristina 12 Gal Planted 3 Balloon Mollies 3 Platies 3 Julli Cory Cats 1 SAE, MTS 5 Gal Planted 1 SD Betta 4 Ghost Shrimp, MTS

02-22-2006, 02:35 PM	#2
rollin_22 Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: brainerd minnesota Posts: 150 Images: 1	i would say that he would be safe..... fry are very fast, and i dont know if ghost shrimp will be able to catch it.... good luck __________________ I HATE PET STORES

02-23-2006, 04:11 AM	#4
dubleshortlatte Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: the CO Posts: 23	phew, thanks for the heads up. I have them in a plastic breeding bin sort of contraption for now...good thing I didn't put them in with the shrimp! __________________ -Kristina 12 Gal Planted 3 Balloon Mollies 3 Platies 3 Julli Cory Cats 1 SAE, MTS 5 Gal Planted 1 SD Betta 4 Ghost Shrimp, MTS

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02-22-2006, 07:18 PM	#3
fish_4_all Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Aberdeen, WA Posts: 1,809 Images: 4	Ghost shrimp can catch them and I lost many guppy and sword fry to ghost shrimp. They will wait until they get close and can hang on well enough to actually swim with the fry and eat the tail at the same time. I have had as many as a dozen fry disappear overnight in a 2.5 gallon tank with 6 ghost shrimp in it. If you put it in there, don't be surprised if it dissappears or you find it with missing fins.