kdklovesfish
Aquarium Advice Freak
With my fry I have found that the more hiding places my tank has the better. My birthing tank is nearly all different sizes of fake plants and driftwood. that tank has tons of fry aging from newborn to six months. My fry have fry. i get so many i sell them on ebay. Like I've said before, I don't move my fry away from momma fish, I just overfeed. What I do is feed two times a day. At the beginning of every feeding I start with a few shakes of the food. I watch the adults come up and eat it all. I add more food but this time I crunch it up into as small of flakes as possible. The adults still eat some of it, but some of it falls to the bottom. Here's my fry saving trick: I then add one more shake of full size flakes. The adults are more interested in the new food, and the fry swim out from their hiding spots and eat the crushed food off of the bottom. I also have some red cherry shrimp so anything the fry don't eat gets cleaned up later by the shrimp. Disclaimer: this tank I'm referring to is a 15g tank and it is way overstocked with platy momma and fry. What fry I don't sell I move to my 55g tank once they reach nearly full size. I move the mommas back to the 55g tank after a few days of them becoming round instead of squarish. But I have a 40g filter on this 15g tank, plus Otos and shrimp to keep it clean. I do at least 25% pwc per week. If you wanna try it my way and have questions you are more than welcome pm me. I'd be glad to help or send photos, whatever would help. I have found that it is really fun to breed different colors of males and females to see what I get! Plus I happen to live Platys!