Keeping and Growing PLATY FRY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video we will take a closer look into how to maximise the numbers of your fry, how to keep and grow them in grow-up tank, or inside your main tank with adults. This is the second video of the "Platy Fish Series" and few more will come. If you are interested in breeding Platy fish, make sure to subscribe this channel and click the notification bell, so you won't miss any of the upcoming videos.
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New fish keeper here and this video helped us a lot! I screamed when I saw the adult platy eat the fry and I was like "run baby! Run!" Now we know what to do.
My platy gave birth while I was asleep, but only one fry survived. I have it in the breeders box. It's 5 days old now! So cute to watch it grow up!
@Been Dead that is amazing! 😊 Good luck growing it up and hopefully you’ll be able to save more from next drops 😊
My first batch was the same, now one of my Mickey Mouse platies is giving birth so much that I’m stuck with like 50 fry😩
@@NEnigma777 hahah after the first batch barely survived I got some plants for my tank and BOOM, I was bringing bags of fry to petco since I couldn't keep up lol! Miss my tank so much, had to move to a place that doesn't allow fish (or any pets for that matter).
I brought 5 platys last week I now have 45+ great value lol 😂
Haha yeps, and you can expect much more :) at some point, you'll run out of tanks like me :D
@@undersurfacechannel shouldn't have to buy many more fish for a while 👌
@@Autumn-Hill-TMD haha that is always a hard task when you visit your Local Fish Store :D
I had a a nitrate spike a last week and now I'm dealing with some Ich... so I did a deep clean yesterday and discovered some platy fry while doing so. It gave me a glimmer of hope that if new life can prosper, maybe everyone will survive this treatment. I had to move my Glass Catfish and Peppered Cories into a seperate tank because they're scaleless and may take the treatment harshly.
@@roland_the_cursor did any survive the ich I had a similar situation in my tank none lived 🤦🏾♀️
Thanks for the video
Thank you for watching, I really appreciate it!
How many times should I clean a one gallon platy fry tank
Depends on many factors. What kind of filtration do you have, if you have live plants, what and how much do you feed, how many fish you have in there. So it is very difficult to answer this question 😊
2 months ago I setup a 20gal Platy breeding tank. I now have more than 100 fry! And more arriving everyday. At the first sign of a fry, I turned the lights out in the tank and only turned them on briefly when food was in the tank for the adult platys. After a week I was able to leave the lights on. The adults don't consider them food. I saw one engulf a fry and quickly spit it out, uninjured. Omega One Flakes are good. Also O-Nip. The small particles go all over the tank and everyone gets food.
@Raving Cyclist great job :) interesting way of keeping fry alive... soon you will have plenty of Platies :)
You deserve more subscribers.
Thank you so much for your kind words! 😊
I had a recent Ammonia spike in my 29 Gal community tank and added API zoelite media bag to drop it and on that same day in the afternoon I noticed my largest Female red wag platty had a plump and square belly and was moving funny. I placed her in a mesh breeder box inside the community tank with some hornwort and in 8 hrs she birthed 11 babies. She's now back in the community tank and doing fine and so are the fry in the mesh box. Thank you for this video. I really have no idea what I'm doing and I'm throwing myself into the wind so I appreciate the video alot.
I’m really glad it helped you. Congrats with your fry... 😊
Elaa👍👍
Hmmm... I may have to start trying to separate the fry then from the adults... as I have just witnessed a new-born become a tasty snack for an opportunistic and swift female! Thanks for this useful video.
Can you tell me where I can get a mini tank like you have in the video for the baby platys?
Amazon🙂
There are many places, but try second hand on marketplace :)
Question: Have you noticed that fry being delivered by a female get larger in size the more fry she delivers? The first fry are very tiny. Subsequent fry get larger and larger. It's as if they are maturing inside the female. Have you noticed this yourself?
@Raving Cyclist yes to some extent. Usually it is rather the amount of fry than an actual size :) at the beginning females have smaller amount of fry and as they grow older, the amount of fry in my drops always increases :) Have not really been focusing on the actual size of fry so cannot really relate to that :) But interesting thought...
Yes, it's quite crazy. The first flight of fries consisted of 9 and only 1 survived - which being at 11 weeks old is still fairly tiny. The second birthday round - same mother fish - came in at 32, with 6 dying from onset, but 26 alive and well. And some really are already a bit bigger. Half the size of the older sibling. Quite astonishing.
Wow your fry grow very fast . I need to try the egg yolk too . I hope mine will grow as fast as yours .
It definitely will 😊 micro worms or live brine shrimp works amazing as well 😊👌🏻
Be careful with egg yolk it clouds your water
@@Autumn-Hill-TMD yea, feeding egg yolks requires much more frequent water changes :) but I count with that...
very helpful!
I bought 3 platies and within 3 days have 5 babies. All growing with the rest of the adults. No problems.
My female platy has been hiding from all the others, she has a growing belly and her tummy is getting darker as the days go on. Is she pregnant?
@Logan Shaver I'd need to see her to be 100% sure, but from your description yes she seems pregnant :)
please help! My platy gave birth and only 8 survived so far they are tiny newborns the filter i have it way too powerful what do i do!?
Just remove them out of the tank, and try to grow them in smaller aquarium. In case you do not have other tank, use breeding box inside the main tank where you place the newborn fry :)
@@undersurfacechannel ok thank you!
My platy gave birth last night sadly I wasn’t prepared since it was overnight and most got eaten so I got 3 left hoping to take care of them the best I can
Hope you had better luck next time 😊👌🏻
@@undersurfacechannel update now I have too many of them 😭 they breed like crazy
@@ZimmFor3 haha glad to hear that. It is always good to have more rather than less :D
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Tiny 4 Fun Thank you 😊
What if you don’t want fry but have like male and female. I dont own any platies but this is a quick question.
Well, if you don't want fry, you just keep them in the same tank with parents, and they'll eat them. At the end of the day it is a healthy snack for them :D
Pat's Fish Tanks Thx!
Hi Pat! Nice video! Would you mind if I use some footage in this video for some videos of mine? I will make sure to provide credit. Thanks!! 😃
@Simple Fish keeping of course mate, just use whatever you need no worries 😊👌🏻
I have a question when do I s sry feeding the fry ?
@Dax Winch I am not sure if I understand question correctly, but from letters you've used I assume you wanted to ask when do you start feeding the Fry? You can start feeding them immediately :)
Son hermosos!!!😍❤❤🙌
Do I need a filter for platy fry
Just subscribed!
@Thank you very much! :)
@@undersurfacechannel I have a fish keeping channel as well! Feel free to check it out! 😃
Nice video👍what is the size of your grow out tank
@John De jesus thank you very much! Grow out tank was 25 Liters and main tank was 60 Liters :)
@@undersurfacechannel thankvyou
John De jesus you’re very welcome 😊
Fries are already in the main tank how to get them to the other tank because it is very small
@Pradeepa Nalluswamy just use very fine fish net :) they are already hardy enough to handle being netted, but be super careful :)
I have a 4 week old baby platy and it’s literally the same size as when I got it 2 weeks ago.
Sometimes that happend. It may have lack of food if there are more fish in the tank or it may just genetically be smaller and it will not grow as big as other platies 😊
Have 5 babies, looks like they grow about 1mm every 2 weeks.
Think my Mickey Mouse platy laid eggs before she passed away and today my nephew pointed out he sees baby fishes and I was confused and showed them to me and I was in shocked. I quickly got them all out and counted 12, I put them in a bowl and ordered a separate tank for them and those breeder net so it can be easier for me to feed them
@Madison Stegar good luck growing them up :)
good wideo
Thank you very much :)
Thank you I always see all the signs of my platy being pregnant but she never gives birth even though she has all signs
@Miraculous Ladybug make sure that you have enough hiding spots fro the fry :) they hunt their youngs pretty hard. There is a high possibility that she has fry often, but she or other fish in the tank eat them all before you see them :)
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@BANG TAN BOY you're welcome buddy :)
I keep my fry in with the parents. I feed the adults 2 times a day so they don't eat the babies.
@J B yea that is possible as well :) I feed mine also 2 times per day, but they usually go after them anyway...
I feed the parents twice a day but originally it didn't help however eventually they realised they were babies and haven't eaten any since the first day they were born. 4 have managed to get to over 1 month old, 8 are 15 days old and 4 are 4 days old.
CAN THEY LIVE WITHOUT HEATERS (68-72)
@VB 23 that 72 would be quite alright for them and generally around 70 they can accept. They will not grow so quickly, but will have longer lifespan in cooler water :) 68 is a bit cold so try to keep it steadily over 70 and you'll be fine :)
why my platy birth 8 fishes only and 5 of them dead
Dear Bojoeee, it may be for several factors, if the fish was in the main tank, the rest of the fry could possibly get eaten. Also if the female was young, and it was her first time giving birth, usually first drop is only small number of fry. Also possibly if you have too high male to female ratio, female could be way to stressed and it is negatively influencing the quality of your fry 😊 hard to say from just your comment, I would need more information to give you a correct answer, but hope this helps 😊👌🏻
ohh i see , i didn't remove the fish from tank before i knew it was giving birth, poor fryss
Bojoeee Torres Yea in that case they most likely got eaten by the parents 😊
I had my platy give birth to twenty five fry
@Ps4 Gamer congratulations buddy! :)
MY PLATY ATE HALF OF HER BABIESSSSSSS!!!!! :((((((((((((
Thanks or this
I didn’t want them so I’m just gonna let nature take it’s course and if some survive then maybe I will keep them