Racist Platys

[absolutangel04]

I love livebearers and I have kept a bunch of different sorts of platys. I noticed that my patys seem to only like patys who are similarly colored or a similar variety. My red wagtail males never paid any attention to the panda or bumblebee females. Has anybody else experienced this?

 

[absolutangel04]

Hmmm. I meant platy, not paty.
Anybody have a similer experience?

 

[Evaunitone]

yes mine were like that too! That's funny. I had three black females and two black/orange females, and two males and a few babies and they all seemed to stick with others of their same color. The black females wouldn't tolerate anyone coming into their area.

 

[Aces11]

In my experience they tend to be like that. I have painted platys and blue rainbow platys in my tank now and they only try to mate with each other not the other variants. I'm not sure why though.

 

[absolutangel04]

Well, I am glad to know that I am not the only one! I was just trying to get some color variety, but instead they formed their own individual clans.