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I've had some problems for a while with my female red-wag platy. She hasn't looked healthy for a few weeks: she's lost a lot of weight and her fins have been routinely clamped. I thought I was going to lose her after she didn't surface for food for two days, but then she stated doing so again...

Yeah, the more I look at him, the more I'm sure he's a him! He doesn't seem to be badgering the other female in the tank, but it looks like I'm getting more female platys now!

I did a water change last night in my 10 gallon tank. I also cleaned out the intake valve and inner tube of my Top Fin Power 10 HOB filter and replaced the carbon filter. (I didn't remove or rinse the bioplate.) I added a sponge around the intake tube for the first time, since I felt like my...

I have a gold platy that I got two months ago when she was fairly small. She had a black fan-shaped anal fin, so I figured she was a female. (See the "before" photo!) She's gotten bigger over the last few months, and last night I noticed the black fin is gone and it's been replaced with a...

Thanks, all. That was very helpful. I'm heading to switch out one of the platies today!

Thanks for the advice! My LFS recommended the platies because they thought tetras weren't a great first fish for a tank. I hadn't planned on getting them, so I didn't realize I had the drowning-in-babies problem until I got home and read about them. I've got two live plants in the tank now...

After cycling my 10 gallon tank, I got two gold-and-black platies last weekend. They seem to be doing well, and the tank's water readings still look good (no ammonia or nitrites, nitrates at 20). My question is what I should do next. I read the ratio for platies should be 1 male to 2 female...