Pregnant platies are easy to spot. They have a noticeably swollen belly. Also commonly appear rectangular form of the stomach, when birth comes close.
Many pregnant platies have a clear mark beside the tail. For healthy platies, mollies and guppies, pregnancy is the normal state.
Caring for Pregnant Platies and Baby Platies
Newborn platies grow differently. For instance, some reach one and a half inches after only a week and two days. That shows very fast development.
On the other hand, other children require 6 until 8 months to surpass one inch. Some platies grow very slowly and even can kill each other, when they surpass an inch. Not all children necessarily will survive.
In the same group, some children can seem a lot more little and fresh than the others. Some look like two weeks old, while others already have four weeks.
Feeding matter for good growth. Platies have little mouths, so they require grinded or crushed foods to eat easily. Good answers are powdered fry food, tiny pellets or grinded fish flakes.
For help strong growth, give alive or cool foods as daphnia, microworms either baby brine shrimp. Here protein-full foods, that you can feed from initially. Nutrition with pigments, for instance carotenoids, helps to improve the color of children during they mature.
Legitimate water helps the increase. Platies require permanent heat in 22-25 C. Some uses tank in 82 degrees, but 78-79F are a bit warm; they favour 76-77. For children answers even 2-gallon tanks.
In separate tank, you can lay floating plants or pothos. False plants also well cover. When children quite a lot larger for be not eaten by adults, you them progressively enter in mainstream tank.
That happens around 4-6 weeks. Supply nests for security during removal. At continuous breeding, additional tanks care about the increasing group.
Surveillance of growth and behavior helps to find problems early for fast help.
