Hi there,
I'm fairly new to platies, having always kept goldfish so I apologise if this sounds weird or basic. ..
I have a male platy whose tank mate died a mysterious, unexplained death a few days ago (only had her a few days, was very small and i think probably arrived with problems). He, himself has been fine and has 4 other non-platy tank mates in a 250L tank. He swims away quite happily, always busy and hungry.
Today I was watching him getting aggressive with a bit of tubing in the tank and then flexing his gonopodium. All fine, except there was also a red fluid coming from the area.
So my question is, am I looking at blood or spawn fluid? If blood, what on earth is going on? If spawn fluid, I guess I better get more tank mates this weekend!
I'm fairly new to platies, having always kept goldfish so I apologise if this sounds weird or basic. ..
I have a male platy whose tank mate died a mysterious, unexplained death a few days ago (only had her a few days, was very small and i think probably arrived with problems). He, himself has been fine and has 4 other non-platy tank mates in a 250L tank. He swims away quite happily, always busy and hungry.
Today I was watching him getting aggressive with a bit of tubing in the tank and then flexing his gonopodium. All fine, except there was also a red fluid coming from the area.
So my question is, am I looking at blood or spawn fluid? If blood, what on earth is going on? If spawn fluid, I guess I better get more tank mates this weekend!