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Hi, I’m new here and I have a question about my new guppies I got yesterday. My new neon sapphire male guppy is nearly constantly chasing my biggest white platy female. He's only about 1 inch long, and she's about 2 inches, and quite pregnant. He doesn't do it all the time, but when they meet in the tank he will come up next to and in front of her and sort of does a dance, he puts his top fin up and waves his long front fins and moves in a little sideways jiggle.

I think it looks like a mating courtship dance. Then when the platy girl turns and moves away from him, he'll sneak up on her and try to mate. :o She doesn't let him though, she swims away too fast. At the moment she's pregnant, so I took her out and put her in a little 2.5 gallon tank, so she doesn't get stressed (it's filled with water from the main tank). She seems happy and swims around in an active way, but looks lonely. She probably has a week or two left to go (but I don't really know because she's my first pregnant platy). He hasn't tried to mate with any of the other platies, or the guppies.

Has anyone else had confused fish like this before? Guppies and platies can't breed....can they? Does he think she's a guppy? She is similar in shape with her big belly, but how can he get so mixed up?
How long can a pregnant platy stay in a little fry tank on her own?
 
Exactly. haha.

Livebearers will interbreed if allowed. A male guppy would mate with a plastic castle if he could.

When I was starting out, I had platies and guppies in the same tank. Sure enough, they mated. My result: PLUPPIES.
 
Mahorela said:
Exactly. haha.

Livebearers will interbreed if allowed. A male guppy would mate with a plastic castle if he could.

When I was starting out, I had platies and guppies in the same tank. Sure enough, they mated. My result: PLUPPIES.
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they try and they do :D
 
My male guppy totally ignores all the female guppies in the tank (4 of them), and all other fish in fact except one: a female, creamsicle molly. I know that mollies and guppies can have sterile fry, but seriously, he's a useles b*****rd.

:D
 
LOL!

Oh, that's good news, I thought I was the only one in the world who had such a crazy guppy. :laugh:

It's funny because a little while after I took my pregnant platy out, he started going for my big male sunset platy.:p: I don't know what he thinks he's going to do when he catches him.

Mahorela:
When I was starting out, I had platies and guppies in the same tank. Sure enough, they mated. My result: PLUPPIES.
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:eek: What did they look like? I'd like to see one, maybe I'll see some in my tank one day.:dance2:
 
Yay! I'm so glad I found this post. I had a different topic post in which I mentioned my male guppy mating with my female Mickey Mouse platy (who has had fry TWICE since I bought them in April and the guppies are the only males in the tank!), and no one believed me! Glad to know I'm not crazy. Apparently the MM platy is the cutest one in my tank, b/c the two male guppies aren't at all interested in the two other females! Thanks for making me feel better!
 
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