platy breeding question!!!

[abrahamavelar]

how can u get them to breed or how can you induce them so they can breed???

 

[Cleggat]

Just add water. One male plus a female should do the trick!

 

[Fishguy2727]

They need no trigger, one male and up to a dozen or more females =babies. Favoring the fry to live and not get eaten is a little trickier, but not hard. Dense plants are good, live ideal. The best way to produce a lot of fry are to put pregnant females in a separate tank right before they give birth, when they do put them back in the main tank.

 

[abrahamavelar]

ohhhh ok im looking into getting some platys this week well my sister is giving me 1 blue mickey (female) 1 sunburst mickey (male) 2 red wag male and female and 2 sunburst male and female so im planing on breeding them

 

[Copachick]

I have one male and 6 female Platys (I had 2 other males but the one I have was too territorial and stressed the other two out so much he ended up killing them) And it always seems like one of my females are pregnant. They all get along great though. We had fry live once for a few weeks. We had 3. We had floating plants that they were staying in. Which we though was going to work out well, but one morning they were gone.. guess they got eaten which was ashame. But we bought a 10 gallon for future fry to live in so hopefully it works out.
Good luck with your Platys!! They are silly little fish that are very entertaining to watch.

 

[abrahamavelar]

they are but i talked to my sister and she had them for 3 months and they never breed for some reason

 

[abrahamavelar]

either the female are 2 picky or the male r gay they never seem to chase them like guppys but they r healthy tho