Amanda77

I have some platy mothers who are aggressive hunters and will run down each and every baby to eat. From about 40 babies form 3 mothers I had one survivor. In this situation I removed the mother the second time and the babies (about 23 of them) are doing great. Other platys don't seem interested in their babies and I do not need to remove the mothers or babies. I always have some community tanks with just shrimp/snails/live plants hanging around in case there is a baby wave that needs salvaging. All I do is get tanks from Facebook marketplace (never pay more than a dollar a gallon), some guppy grass and/or hornwort, some pond snails, some neocardinia shrimp, sponge filters/tubing/bubblers on Amazon and park the thing by a window with a lot of light.