Platy Fry

[Tim513]

Hi all,

 

I tried looking for the answer in the forum, but I didn't see it.  My platy had its first surviving fry about 2 weeks ago which made me so excited.  Fortunately, I was able to get the little guy into my tank set for him before he was eaten.  I was just curious how long he should be apart from the other tank mates on average?  There was something I read that it could take up to 2 months, but it seemed inconclusive.  Thank you for any helpful feedback!

 

Tim

[Fish Folk]

1 hour ago, Tim513 said:

Hi all,

 

I tried looking for the answer in the forum, but I didn't see it.  My platy had its first surviving fry about 2 weeks ago which made me so excited.  Fortunately, I was able to get the little guy into my tank set for him before he was eaten.  I was just curious how long he should be apart from the other tank mates on average?  There was something I read that it could take up to 2 months, but it seemed inconclusive.  Thank you for any helpful feedback!

 

Tim

Congratulations! If you plant your tank very heavily with lots of plants -- especially floating plants that create escape places for fry -- you'll not need to separate them at all.

Basically, once the fry is 30 days old, it's reasonably bulletproof to predation. Feed it up!

[Tim513]

Thank you!  I do want to add more plants.  I have a lot of java fern, a crypt, and an amazon sword.  I'm looking to just some jungle vallisneria or pogostemon.....  That should help them hide better, but I have to wait a little longer just yet.  Thank you again for replying!