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LOVE Platies. I’ve had one for over a year now. Brought a new one about 4 months ago and didn’t know it was female. I now know how to tell the difference between male and female which is very easy. They’re live bearers and she’s given birth quite a few times. Once they get pregnant they have babies (fry) over and over for the next several months. Very easy to care for and exciting to watch. Recommended to everyone^_^!
Great fish, easy to look after, prolific live-bearing breeder like guppy’s usually between 25-28 days from time of birth it shell give birth again.
Females are easily spotted, at the rear of the platy you should see a dark grey, black spot know as the gravid spot, over time this spot will grow darker and the female will grow size-able and noticeably, when it is near to the time of birth you will notice she may not eat as much, swimming near the heater lowering her tail and leaning her head towards the surface in a position to help push out the ready fry, when she is about it give birth you will notice black in her anus this is usually the fry ready to come out, I recommend (If you wish to keep the fry) that you put her in a separate tank or even if you have a fish net breeder, or even a glass bowl small enough to float in the tank, put half water and leave the female in there and drop some food in the bowl so if she gets hungry she will be more incline to eat the food and not her little babies. Once she has finished you may leave her in the bowl to recover for a few minutes-hours, But if you see she is stressed and swimming frantically trying to get out! well then let her out back in the community tank, you can keep and raise the baby fry in the bowl or you can put in a separate tank if you have.
Male is easy to tell usually longer in length, will chase the female, and has no gravid spot.
All in all easy fish for first time aquarium lovers, and very lovely peaceful fish.
I have a Mickey Mouse Platy and she(I think it is ) always stays in the Tiki Hut at the bottom of the tank. The platy will not come out.
The color is vivid not belly rot on her. Anyone know what might be wrong with her? She will not school with the other Platys. My tank is a 36 gallon . Three Platys plus the Mickey Mouse (4 all together)
and four neon glo fish.
i am getting mickey mouse fish….i have never took care of any before ….i have a 15 gallon tank
Any tips how to take care of them?
How do you rell the boys and girls apart?
How mant times a day do i feed them?
How do you know if they are pregnat?
How long do they live for?
if you could help me that would really help(:
i have more questions but no answers
Please and thank you(: 🙂
can anyone help? i have 3 micky mouse platys..2 female 1 male…i of my females has a rather large belly and i can see a pinky browny gravid spot..on closer inspection i think i can see little tiny black dots in the gravid spot…assume she is pregnant but not sure how far along she is….
Hi. I have 5 mickey mouse platy in a fish bowl, then I have 4 cichlids in a tank, I was wondering if I can put them together in just one tank. Thank you.
OUR METHODS SO FAR -HAVE BEEN LEARNING THE HARD WAY THE MICKEY MOUSE ARE MY FAVORITES AND I AM TRYING TO RAISE 17 WEEKOLD FREY. NODEATHS YET AS SADLY EVENTUALLY 2 OTHER LITTERS PERISHED IN SPITE OF WHAT I THOUGHT WAS DILIGENT CARE .
how can i tell the difference between a girl and a boy mickey mouse fish? PLEASE ANSWER!! =)
3 weeks ago, I bought 2 Female mickey mouse platties and 1 Male, i noticed one of the females is pregnant and this morning i found 2 fry in my tank. I’ve read its recommended to put them in a seperate tank, but i don’t have one. any suggestions on how i can raise them without them getting eaten by the other adult fish in my tank?This is my first tank and i’m clueless when it comes to raising the fry. please help!
i have two red mickey mouse platies one boy one girl. the female has a bottom fin that fans strait down and the males bottom fin kinda fans backwards. i have heard that when the females have their babies they will eat them if they are hungry enough so i would recommend either putting the babies in a separate tank for a couple of days to a week. or if you dont have another tank feed the fish so the new mother doesnt get hungry and decide to eat her own young. this kind of fish is a live bearer.
I HAVE ONE MICKEY MOUSE PLATY, ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO WE NOTICED 6-7 FRY SWIMMING AROUND. TODAY THERE’S MORE LIKE 15. WE HAVE NOT SEPERATED THEM, WE FEED 1-2 TIMES DAILY. IT’S A 45 GALLON TANK WITH TWO ADULTMOLLYS, TWO ADULTY ZEBRAS, TWO ADULT NEONS, AND ONE ADULT MICKEY MOUSE. WE ALSO HAVE A BABY DALMATION FRY MOLLY THAT IS THE ELER OF ALL THE BABIES BY A WEEK OR YTWO, BUY HER MOM DIEDTHE SAME DAY SHE WAS BORN, UNLESS SHE CAMWE FROM THE BLACK MOLLY AND NOT THE WHITE MOLLY. SORRY FOR SPELLING ERRORS MY KEYBOARD IS MESSED UP.
I have 4 platys female.. and 3 male platys in different tank. 4 platy babies that will be 3 weeks . To feed baby platy fry shake can to make power inside the container lid. They can eat that. Put a moss ball in with your platy and babies they do it some platy like hide.. and if you put your laboring platy in a breeder box, get her out asap, if she’s not comfortable, stress can effect labor, use a turkey blaster to collect fry from community tank, some fry will cooperate and go into the net , with no problems