Hello. One of my surviving platies has a vorocious appetite and she is either pregnant or getting plump. I am still cycling my tank and doing lots of water changes. I know that as a newbie I am inclined to overfeed, which I have been trying not to do, especially as I am struggling with my nitrites being elevated, but.......she acts like she is starving! Now that I am concerned that she may be pregnant I want to make sure she is well nourished. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Hungry pregnant platy?
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I have a pregnant platy too but it is worse to overfeed. I give a variety of foods throughout the week. I give tetraflakes, spirulina flakes and brime shrimp. I alternate the food and I feed my fish once a day she shares a tank with another male platy and 2 fruit tetras.
She is very aggressive with trying to get every possible flake and then she keeps staring at me when they are gone. She then starts swimming at the surface and picking at it, even when nothing is there, and then comes back and stares at me. Normally she avoids me. Any sure way to tell if she is pregnant?
same as mine do. when ever they see me they go and swim around the place where i drop food. they are just begging.
Apparently she was pregnant....I found a tiny, tiny fish in my tank last night. When she lost her belly last week without seeing any fry i thought....well, let's say i thought i was mistaken. I've done a few 50-70% pwc since then (50% yesterday). I guess I've sucked a few out. So far I only see one. It hangs out in the java fern. Can a zebra danio eat it? I'm sure the platies can. Should I do something special for it? Someone suggested a special net to protect it.
If you absolutely want to make sure the fry live, I'd get a breeder trap, breeder net, or fry tank. A small tank will work fine.
Reason I say this is because eventhough I had very dense spots of bushy plants, and gravel (which the fry hide in at first), over the course of a few days, my adults managed to eradicate all fry from the tank.
They do hide in plants and gravel, but they will occassionally come out, always one time too many in my experience.
In my tank, this serves as population control. You may want to take an extra step to preserve all your fry if you want them all.
Reason I say this is because eventhough I had very dense spots of bushy plants, and gravel (which the fry hide in at first), over the course of a few days, my adults managed to eradicate all fry from the tank.
They do hide in plants and gravel, but they will occassionally come out, always one time too many in my experience.
In my tank, this serves as population control. You may want to take an extra step to preserve all your fry if you want them all.
It's still alive. We only see one. Your right, he is certainly getting brave. I'm assuming the breeder's trap is the net thing my friend told me about. What the heck does that tiny thing eat? What do I do with it once it is in the trap? I do feel somewhat protective of it since it appears to be the sole survivor.