Platys, swordtails and guppys oh my.

[00Smurf]

Hi new here to the forum, stumbled across it looking for ghost shrimp parasites. As my shrimp had a worm. eww. lol

Exciting things happened today, one of my guppy's, the sword tail and my platy all gave birth to lil fry! I used breeder boxes for the intial birthing then i moved all the fry to a nursery net hanging at the top of aquarium. So far i've been crushing up bits of flake food to feed them. Is there a certain type of food i should get? also will it be okay having the 3 diff kinds of fry together? Oh and my tank is a 36G bow front.

 

[Fishy_Fun]

it should be okay to house them all together but you really should get a rubbermaid tub with a sponge filter and heater.as for feeding there is a food called first bites that is great for fry.

 

[Lupin]

I'd rather you do not mix the platies and swordtails. Both can crossbreed.

 

[00Smurf]

I'd rather you do not mix the platies and swordtails. Both can crossbreed.

i wonder what they would produce?

i will look into the first bites thank you. Could you give me a link to a good sponge filter?

 

[MyHatBarks]

I fed my platy babies First Bites and it worked wonders. Definitely recommend it.

You can find it at almost any store. Petsmart, Petco, even Walmart (here anyways).

 

[KarlTh]

i wonder what they would produce?

i will look into the first bites thank you. Could you give me a link to a good sponge filter?

They'd produce platys and swordtails. True swordtails are a lot bigger than the hybrids sold under that name these days. And true platys are nothing like as aggressive as some of the male fish which go by that designation. In other words, the fish are already hybrids.

 

[jm1212]

a platy and swordtail cross creates a viratus. they look like platies but have the more slender and elongated body of a swordtail

 

[grannylvsfish]

I got these for my baby fry. they love it and grow very fast on it.Decapsulated Brine Shrimp Eggs Tropical Fish Food .
costs next to nothing and the package lasts for ever. you just add a touch of water and let sit a moment. then add. its so tiny all the babys can eat it.

 

[00Smurf]

I got these for my baby fry. they love it and grow very fast on it.Decapsulated Brine Shrimp Eggs Tropical Fish Food .
costs next to nothing and the package lasts for ever. you just add a touch of water and let sit a moment. then add. its so tiny all the babys can eat it.

I'm going to pick up some of that tommorow.

 

[KarlTh]

a platy and swordtail cross creates a viratus. they look like platies but have the more slender and elongated body of a swordtail

Not true. X. variatus is a species in its own right. It does look somewhat intermediate between X. helleri and X. maculatus, but that is not what it is.

I've heard this myth before. I wonder where it's coming from?