Platy Help

[neil180]

Hi All,
I have had 3 different platy have fry in the last 3 days, The first 2 had fry with no colour, The one today has had 6 so far and they are all orange in colour (see Photo about 3 minutes old ). Is this normal or is something wrong.
Thanks for all your help I love this site.
Neil.

[gm72]

Livebearer fry can be all kinds of color combinations. I have 18 swordtail fry that don't really have much color yet. Some develop color as they get older. Nothing to worry about!

[neil180]

Thanks for that. So far this week Monday 10 fry, Tuesday 12 fry, Today 15 fry. Think I need a bigger tank lol.

[neil180]

Sory meant to ask which is the best food to feed the fry, I have Interpet Liquifry and TetraMin Baby, I am using the Liquifry at the moment should i use both or stick with the Liquifry for the time being.
Cheers
Neil

[gm72]

Since you already have them you can alternate to give them a variety. I personally just used finely crushed flake food with good results.

[dev]

Sory meant to ask which is the best food to feed the fry, I have Interpet Liquifry and TetraMin Baby, I am using the Liquifry at the moment should i use both or stick with the Liquifry for the time being.
Cheers
Neil

Best? Live artemia. You won't believe the difference until you see it :)

TetraMin Baby will do just fine. No need to use Liquifry for platy, but they will eat that aswell.

[troy]

Most fry foods will do and brine shrimp is the best. I'm feeding my molly fry crushed flake and powdered fry food.

[dev]

For the record, brine shrimp and Artemia is the very same thing, around here we use the scientific genus name for some reason.

[neil180]

cheers was wandering what it was

[RobbieG]

I got a bunch of Platy fry a while back and couldn't get anything else so I had used the crushed up flake also - they did fine. They're about 6 months old now (almost ready to move to a real tank so I can convert my 10 gallon back to Brackish!)