EEEEPPPP!!!!!! awwww....... and HELP!!!!

[Sleepy_FF]

sooo..... i just finished an ich treatment for my tank. i check on the fish.... and OMG....

i have little tiny platys swimming around the tank!!!!

im doing my best to net them and move them to my small 1-gallon so they dont get eaten bu the filter, but HELP..... how do i take care of them??

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[zsanorah]

OMG! Thats alway a "What do i do now moment" I would say your doing great moving them but i honestly cant offer advice..maybe some site on the net can help. try googling it if you havent already =) Good luck

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[Sponger05]

can't you get a little hide thing for them like baby guppies? I Know nothing about fish, sorry!
pictures!!!

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[Sleepy_FF]

they are hidint in the plant that is in the 1-gallon... i know that once they get big enough to stop hiding in the gravel, they will all get killed!!!

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[Finghin]

if you can move them then just treat them the same as other fish. with food you can buy 'fry food' or you can just grind up regular fish food into powder and feed that to them.
java moss is really good for baby fish. if you can find some place that sells it, buy a clump of it and stick it in there, they hide in it and can nibble on it. it works well for when they're too big to hide in the gravel too.

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[Sleepy_FF]

14 fry so far.... and a few dead ones. guess not all baby fishies make it.

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[Sleepy_FF]

thank you, ill look for java moss.

this is totally unexpected. now im gonna have zillions of red mickey mouse platys!

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[Sponger05]

bring them to a fish store and trade them for stuff????? I dont know... ill shutup.

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[Sleepy_FF]

Originally Posted by Sponger05

bring them to a fish store and trade them for stuff????? I dont know... ill shutup.

i wonder if they WOULD..... ill check on that. fish breeding is NOT what i had in mind when i got a tank....

(tho.... how easy would it be to breed minnows??)

[camille]

crushing fish flakes with a spoon into tiny peaces and then mixing it with water and putting it in the tank is good

and like they said. Java moss. i breed platies and i have a pile of it in there. If you contact a pet store they SHOULD be willing to trade the babys once their big enough for some dry goods or fish.

also filtration and water changes are important. with babys i change a cup of water a day. sometimes a bit more. instead of the water change once a week. because you can kill them if theres a spike of ANYTHING. babys are real sensitive to changes.

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[Sponger05]

you would probably have to get them bigger... then I am sure if they sell them the store would be interested.

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[Sleepy_FF]

thanks camille

i didnt know platys were such prolific breeders, i thought it was just guppies and mollies

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[Heidi]

Tracy, Platy's breed like mad. We had a few females and a single male and I ended up giving a female away because we constantly had babies. I would make sure to have lots of hiding places for them and I know it sounds cruel but I would let the ones hide that could and the others would get eaten. We always had survivors that I would give away though even when I didn't seperate them to give them more chance.

I never found them to be very sensitive. We had an outbreak of ich and surprisingly lost all but one adult at one time and the rest that survived were babies. We also had a freeze and ended up having to leave our house with the kids for a week and when we came to check on the house a few of the adults were gone and babies were surviving.

[Sleepy_FF]

tho this makes me wonder...... would platys have any nutritional value, as far as my watersnakes go...?

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[nomadbean]

Haha, Tracy.
I know nothing of fish, but my first thought was can you eat them? Or does she have cats? Lol.
Trina
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