Seven
Aquarium Advice Regular
Today I got some platies to put in my tank. I was floating the bag, and I came back to check on the fish and I noticed several fry at the bottom. I made sure to get all female platies, so I already realized it was possible that some or all of them might be pregnant, but I didn't expect any of them to give birth while still in the bag. 8O Perhaps it was the change in temperature or something?
In any case, I had no intentions of raising any fry (thus the reason for getting only females), and I seriously considered feeding them to my bettas, but I decided to just release them in the tank with mom and let nature take its course. I am wondering however if it is possible they will survive without any special care? It is a planted tank with one medium sized aponogeton, one small aponogeton, and a few good sized pieces of anacharis (used to be one extremely long piece that I broke into smaller pieces). One of the anacharis pieces is anchored while the others are floating (they were anchored too, but floated back up and I was too lazy to anchor them again ) . A few of the fry seemed to like the floating anacharis, while others burrowed themselves in the gravel and under the stones I have at the bottom. They seem to be really good at hiding so I don't think the adult platies will eat them, but I wonder if they will starve without special food? I saw one of them nipping at one of the leaves on the anacharis, and it even seemed like it was "chewing", but thats all I've seen so far.
In any case, I had no intentions of raising any fry (thus the reason for getting only females), and I seriously considered feeding them to my bettas, but I decided to just release them in the tank with mom and let nature take its course. I am wondering however if it is possible they will survive without any special care? It is a planted tank with one medium sized aponogeton, one small aponogeton, and a few good sized pieces of anacharis (used to be one extremely long piece that I broke into smaller pieces). One of the anacharis pieces is anchored while the others are floating (they were anchored too, but floated back up and I was too lazy to anchor them again ) . A few of the fry seemed to like the floating anacharis, while others burrowed themselves in the gravel and under the stones I have at the bottom. They seem to be really good at hiding so I don't think the adult platies will eat them, but I wonder if they will starve without special food? I saw one of them nipping at one of the leaves on the anacharis, and it even seemed like it was "chewing", but thats all I've seen so far.