help!! platy fry.... need advice

[tetramoon13]

OMG!!!

theres platy fry in my QT tank....I don't know what to do....I've never had fish babies before! They are burrowing in the gravel....

 

[tetramoon13]

I'm all set.....I did a search....thanks anyway :dance2:

 

[vidiots]

Platys will breed every month without any effort on your part. If you have coarse gravel they will hide in it. It's also common to suck them up when vacuuming the gravel. If you want to keep them, you may want to transfer them to another tank until they are larger than the mouth opening on your other fish so that they are not eaten. The fry will eat flake food crushed into a powder. They love and grow very fast eating freashly hatched baby brine shrimp.

If you don't want to keep them do nothing, those that can't hide will often be eaten by other fish, meaning very few of them will grow. This helps keep your tank from becomming over populated in 6months.

 

[raift]

vidiots good info thanks