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~Erik3.8.07~
10-03-2007, 08:43 PM
i was looking at my new platies and was wondering, do platies interbreed? i have 2 red wags and 2 sunburst, could they mate together?
CAF
10-03-2007, 08:46 PM
All platys and swordtails can hybridize. Most platys in LFSes are hybrids already...

So yes, they will interbreed.
~Erik3.8.07~
10-03-2007, 08:49 PM
thx caf, maybe it'll happen and ill have a cool looking hybrid
CAF
10-03-2007, 08:58 PM
I'm a really firm believer in colony breeding. I have quite a few really cool looking guppies from this.

Basically you find outstanding specimens of the species with traits you like and through them all into a really big tank and let nature take its course. As you get traits you like you pull them out and place them into their own tanks so you then have a "new" strain....
~Erik3.8.07~
10-03-2007, 09:34 PM
that sounds like it be interesting to do but i dont have the extra tanks to do it
CAF
10-03-2007, 10:54 PM
that sounds like it be interesting to do but i dont have the extra tanks to do it
One day you to will have a fish room or house.... it is only a matter of time.

I live in a 720 square foot house and I have close to 1000 gallons of tanks in it.... so uh... if there is space for a tank, and in a few cases even if there wasn't there is a tank there.
squirt_12
10-03-2007, 10:57 PM
One day you to will have a fish room or house.... it is only a matter of time.

I live in a 720 square foot house and I have close to 1000 gallons of tanks in it.... so uh... if there is space for a tank, and in a few cases even if there wasn't there is a tank there.
SWEET...i wish that i could do that.
CAF
10-03-2007, 11:02 PM
SWEET...i wish that i could do that.
You will young Squirt.... one day you will....



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squirt_12
10-03-2007, 11:02 PM
You will young Squirt.... one day you will....



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'young squirt' lmao
CAF
10-03-2007, 11:03 PM
'young squirt' lmao
I'm glad you like it....:28:
squirt_12
10-03-2007, 11:04 PM
I'm glad you like it....:28:
still...lmao:hmm3grin2orange:
~Erik3.8.07~
10-03-2007, 11:08 PM
i can only dream of having a 1000 gallons of tank, sadly im still in high school and a ways off from my own house, but i always picture a big house with a full basement full of nothing but tanks! gf may not like it but she'll get over it lol

o and i was wondering if anyone happen to knew how long it takes for tetras and danios to lay eggs, like from the time there pregnant to the time there about to lay eggs
squirt_12
10-04-2007, 01:03 AM
i can only dream of having a 1000 gallons of tank, sadly im still in high school and a ways off from my own house, but i always picture a big house with a full basement full of nothing but tanks! gf may not like it but she'll get over it lol

o and i was wondering if anyone happen to knew how long it takes for tetras and danios to lay eggs, like from the time there pregnant to the time there about to lay eggs
Yeah i know...i picture that too. lol..


Sorry but i don't know how long it takes...but i heard that with the tetras you can usually see the eggs and after that it doesn't take long...but don't forget that tetras are VERY HARD to breed.
~Erik3.8.07~
10-04-2007, 01:08 AM
i know its not common but ive had a black skirt and a zebra danio that have looked bigger and more plump like there pregnant for almost a week
squirt_12
10-04-2007, 01:11 AM
o well i have 3 black skirts and mine have always been so skinny...but maybe i got males lol....yeah wel my glowlights are really really fat (wel like 4 out of the 10 ) so i think that they are going to breed but like the other fish in the tank will just eat the eggs so if you think that that are going to breed...set them in a tank with marbles on the bottom and very heavily plantes with lots of fine leafed plants. The marbles act for a spot for the eggs to drop so that the fish can't eat them and the fine leafed plants are for the eggs to also hath on.

I hope that all of this helps.
~Erik3.8.07~
10-04-2007, 01:28 AM
ya it does thanks squirt, now i just need to convince my mom to let me set up the extra tank :c3:
squirt_12
10-04-2007, 01:30 AM
ya it does thanks squirt, now i just need to convince my mom to let me set up the extra tank :c3:
it doesn't have to be that big...about 10 gallons 15 gallons...somewhere alogn there. bigger would be ok if you wanted to go bigger.
ms1000
10-08-2007, 11:41 AM
Hi all, just out of interest, i have a rather large basement 1,300 sq ft. Would it be possible to have set ups in thereeven though there is no natural light source?
~Erik3.8.07~
10-08-2007, 11:58 AM
as long as you have good lights for your tanks then absolutley, if you have live plants make sure you get at least 2 watts per gallon
ms1000
10-08-2007, 12:18 PM
Thanks Erik.
~Erik3.8.07~
10-08-2007, 12:20 PM
Thanks Erik.

np ms1000 :)