When to move pregnant platy?

[jbradt]

The tank is new, and just water from the established tank isnt going to help. I would leave her as is. As stated above, it can cause her to loose the fry, stress drop (early birth) and possibly die. I would leave her in the tank, and add plants for the fry to hide in if she does give birth.

I have to agree here... just make sure the fry have many plants/places to hide and they will do well for themselves. It seems best to me not to stress the mother out.

 

[faun]

In our platy tank we have put plants and drift wood in and we seem to always have plenty of fry make it you may loose a few but putting her in a breeder trap may cause the death of her and the babies.

 

[queuetue]

Ok, thanks for the advice, everyone! Anyone want to buy a floating breeder tank cheap? Slightly used.

 

[Winterose]

The way i do it is let her have them in the tank them catch the fry and put them in the breeders net...