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My older daughter brought home a male/female "dwarf platy" pair from Pet's Mart about 9 months ago. I have known and loved platys since childhood but never heard of dwarfs. Anyway, the pair of charming specimens has been quite prolific. The male is orange and the female is white. All of the many progeny are basically the same which surprised me. The tail and rear 1/3 are basically black which is not expressed in either parent. The rest of the fish is lighter (yellow/white) with some orange in the head and shoulder areas. These are an F1 hybrid and offer the possibility of a new strain if selective siblings were to breed true. If I ever get the time and money for a dedicated tank I hope to find out. They are grand fish showing all of the positive traits of other platys. They do appear to be more stubby and deeper in the body as compared tp platys in general. The adults are surely full grown with the female at perhaps two inches. The male is notably smaller and I doubt that he is more than one and a half inches. The backs of both leading up to the top of the dorsal fin are elevated and the tops of the heads are relatively flat and broad giving the impression of a high if not slightly humped back. This is especially pronounced in the female who appeard to be a very deep bellied specimen because she is pregnant all of the time.
My older daughter brought home a male/female "dwarf platy" pair from Pet's Mart about 9 months ago. I have known and loved platys since childhood but never heard of dwarfs. Anyway, the pair of charming specimens has been quite prolific. The male is orange and the female is white. All of the many progeny are basically the same which surprised me. The tail and rear 1/3 are basically black which is not expressed in either parent. The rest of the fish is lighter (yellow/white) with some orange in the head and shoulder areas. These are an F1 hybrid and offer the possibility of a new strain if selective siblings were to breed true. If I ever get the time and money for a dedicated tank I hope to find out. They are grand fish showing all of the positive traits of other platys. They do appear to be more stubby and deeper in the body as compared tp platys in general. The adults are surely full grown with the female at perhaps two inches. The male is notably smaller and I doubt that he is more than one and a half inches. The backs of both leading up to the top of the dorsal fin are elevated and the tops of the heads are relatively flat and broad giving the impression of a high if not slightly humped back. This is especially pronounced in the female who appeard to be a very deep bellied specimen because she is pregnant all of the time.
