Hey,
I have had a tank for a few years and have always had tetras and platties although the tetras have never given off any eggs, the platties have given me a fair few fry, most of which i'm unaware of as I don't mean to breed them they just do it lol! But I never seperate the fry from the rest of the tank as last time i did they never seemed to grow big enough and also a lot of runts survived and so died as young adults instead of just getting eaten.
However for no reason at all my platties have been having such a short life span and also the shop i go to have had smaller and smaller platties that don't look too good while I prefer big broad chested at least male platties which look very healthy, so I decided I'll have a break from platties and go to Mollies...
I bought 2 female and 2 male mollies to begin with and I've had one female platy for a while now who has been on her own with no male company at all. I have noticed today that both mollies look pregnant... aswell as the platy... so I ask, can platties and mollies breed within each other?? I know they're both live bearers and so in a way i see no reason why not but at the same time, I've not heared of these two fish crossbreed...
In a way I'm hoping she is pregnant as I notice when my female fish get fat and look pregnant they tend to die so I assume it's some sort of illness that caused the death.
advice would be appreciated thanks
I have had a tank for a few years and have always had tetras and platties although the tetras have never given off any eggs, the platties have given me a fair few fry, most of which i'm unaware of as I don't mean to breed them they just do it lol! But I never seperate the fry from the rest of the tank as last time i did they never seemed to grow big enough and also a lot of runts survived and so died as young adults instead of just getting eaten.
However for no reason at all my platties have been having such a short life span and also the shop i go to have had smaller and smaller platties that don't look too good while I prefer big broad chested at least male platties which look very healthy, so I decided I'll have a break from platties and go to Mollies...
I bought 2 female and 2 male mollies to begin with and I've had one female platy for a while now who has been on her own with no male company at all. I have noticed today that both mollies look pregnant... aswell as the platy... so I ask, can platties and mollies breed within each other?? I know they're both live bearers and so in a way i see no reason why not but at the same time, I've not heared of these two fish crossbreed...
In a way I'm hoping she is pregnant as I notice when my female fish get fat and look pregnant they tend to die so I assume it's some sort of illness that caused the death.
advice would be appreciated thanks