Identify my fry!!

[Floyd R Turbo]

Hey there, I originally thought that this was a guppy fry...

...when I found it on 1/24. This pic is of at only a few days old, and is the only decent pic I have of him at the time. Now I have 16 or so 10 day old guppy fry, and 20 or so 5 day old molly fry, and I'll be darned if they look nothing like the older fry. I had 5 platies in the tank when I found him, 4 appeared male and 1 is definitely female, so the only other explanation I have is that this is a platy fry. Is anyone good at identifying the differences between molly, guppy, and platy fry?

I'll try to get a few good pics of the fry I currently have and post in this thread if it helps...

 

[peaceablegarden]

Looks a lot like my platy fry...

 

[kribensis12]

Its a guppy. Platy fry grow EXTREMELY slow.

 

[meegosh]

Doesn't look like any guppy fry I've seen. The eye seems too big for how small the fish is. Usually my couple day old guppy fry have tiny, tiny eyes.

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

I think it is a platy. I have it in a tank with 17 guppy fry born on 2/20 and 28 molly fry born on 2/28 and he looks absolutely nothing like the guppy fry - at all.

Here's a few recent pics of the fry in question, at 6 weeks

And a few others of the molly/guppy fry. This one has both, the guppies are dark and mollies are light

Here's a shot of one of the guppies

Not a great shot, but it's a molly

A somewhat better shot of a few molly fry, with a few out of focus gups...

I feel pretty confident that it is not a guppy or molly fry. It has to be Platy, no other candidates in the 55.

 

[mike47517]

the first 3 pics look like mickey mouse platy

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

What's interesting is that, in the 55 where I found it, I have 2 Mickeys, 2 Blues, and 1 Black/Gold. The only one that is female is the Black, I got all of them on 1/2/9 and the fry was found 1/24/9. Before I knew how to sex them, one of the blues got really fat, then thinned out less than a week later, but it didn't coincide with finding the fry. I have read that some livebearers change from F to M even after giving birth, but I guess I'll never really know, or time will just tell.

 

[mike47517]

never eard of livebearers having sex changes but ok. quick warning you will want to get more females or else all thosse males will stress your lone females to death. i really cant be sure about anything with platys as i have never bred them tho.