I have babies in my tank...

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lynnieK

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... but don't have 2 of the same kind of fish!

Well, I take that back. I have 3 glow-light tetras, but the baby fish I found is orange.

I have one mickey mouse platy, one red platy, one black-skirt tetra, one algae eater, one male guppy, and one other tetra (can't remember the name of it).

I guess I'm assuming that the baby fish is a platy. I just didn't think that 2 different kinds of platys would try to make babies.

Any thoughts? I only found one baby, btw. I think if there were more they got sucked up in the gravel vacuum...
 
4.5 months - are fish pregnant for that long?? I didn't think so but I'm sure I could be wrong. :)
 
don't quote me on this, but i thought all platys could mate with each other.
I have one sunset platy and one red one in the old work tank. And they made babies.
 
my platy and molly bred... didn't think that was possible, had the platy for many months until I had babies!!! If you want to keep some fry without messing around with the breeder nets, you can buy some of the breeder grass that they sell at most stores. I think some floats and some you put down in the gravel. I don't think you would have too many survivors that way, but the tougher ones will make it!!!
 
Holly9937 said:
my platy and molly bred.
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Pretty unlikely. Swordtails and platies interbreed and guppies and mollies supposedly can as well. What is most likely is that one of your females had stored sperm. Livebearers can do this for an exceptionally long time.
 
Yeah, I am behind Harlock on this. Your fish just basically stored the sperm from her last mating with a male. It happens, its just natures way of continuing the species with out a male being around.
 
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