Platy Fish Life Cycle (Breeding Project)
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Hey Guys! Today I'll take you back in time and show you a whole life cycle of my Red Tuxedo Platies. This breeding project began in February, the first fry was born in March, and by this time the breeders selected from that March fry are already having their own babies. With this video I also want to point out how easy and rewarding it is to breed platies, so in case that you're new into fishkeeping and you're thinking about what type of fish you should get, platies are definitely a good choice...
I also want to thank you all for the great support of my first Platy Fish Species Profile video. Several days ago it crossed 20 000 views and it definitely is a flagship of this channel... For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is the link:
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It is interesting to see the amount of time invested, such as the notebook you keep, and how you determine the various grades for the offspring.
B B Thank you very much, appreciate the support 😊
@@undersurfacechannel how do I grow them quicker?
@@orangescalefishy1258 feed them live brine shrimp and keep them in warmer water :)
@@undersurfacechannel noted
@@undersurfacechannel what do I do if they aren’t big enough to get out of the breeding box at 14 days? Another one of my platies gave birth and it’s day 10 and they still look the same. They’ve only gotten a big fatter.
I just found babies the other day (unexpected as I got two females, and this video was so helpful in showing their growth stages. Beautifully shot too!
@Jess Mae thank you very much! Really glad to hear you found the video helpful :)
I literally caught my platys have some alone time and I’m so exited to have some frys!
@Jousef Yuh you definitely will have soon :) it is always super exciting growing fry up... good luck mate!
Thank you so
Much ,I just wanted to see this video because my fish was sitting not playing and I saw a baby fry and I was like am I imagining but when I took to a different breeding box I saw it and I was like OMG
I am really glad it helped you. Hope the fry are well and they'll grow up nicely for you :)
Pat's Fish Tanks thanks is it ok if give boiled eggs for them ? And how do I give them ?
One of the easiest fish to breed. Super fun also.
Thanks for the whistle stop tour! Keep them coming
That soo good video.nice project keep going dude
Gilang Al Sahid Thank you very much 😊
Passionate man!
@john thank you :)
Very beautiful fishes 🐠
Thank you 😊
Very interesting project! I really enjoyed watching it ;-)
Thank you very much! Really appreciate your support!
Very cool video! Really nicely done! 👍🏽🙂👍🏽
Kivharo The Grey Thank you very much 😊 appreciate your support
Thanks for the video, i am getting started in Platy breeding as well, lots of good information you shared
Thank you 😊 hope your breeding is going well 😊
Nice thought out and structured video, well done, Im not sure why anyone could dislike
@Clint Mackenzie well I would also wish people would leave their reasons for disliking in comment section so I´d be able to improve that in future... but anyway thank you very much for your kind words and support, I really appreciate it :)
@@undersurfacechannel Subscribing is the least I can do to follow your adverntures and trials
@@clintmackenzie3419 Thank you very much! :) People like you are really motivating me to create these videos :)
Another great vid! Thanks so much for the channel inspiration! Hope to be like you one day
Thank you so much for your support :) really glad you like the video
Hey bro, i just came across ur channel. Il support it. Looks quite cool. Keep up the good work
@Prajesh thank you very much! I really appreciate your support! :)
5:04 Ironically, I like some of these fry better then your chosen ones :)
Well some of them were looking interesting and I liked their look as well :) but for now on I am focusing on keeping clean Red Tuxedo line :)
I have a pair of beautiful colors and around 45 baby’s I need another tan This is why I have so many Aquariums addictive Hobby
That is for sure 😊 I hope by now those babies are already fully grown 😂
what a video with great time and efforts invested! perfect explanation matee
i just have had a female laying fries. 2 female platys and 2 guppys in a 17.2 gallon planted tank. it'd be a great help if you can tell if the fries would live in this environment or i need something like a breeder tank in it..
Thanks for this!
Thank you for your comment 😊🙏🏻
Got about 12 of them caught and a couple more in the tank. Mom has been popping a few out at a time
Congrats 😊 it's always nice to find babies in the tank 😊👌🏻
This us so great, im need platies now❤️😬😆
Thank you buddy! Glad to hear that!
Cool
Thank you 🙏🏻
Great informative vid and channel. I'm just starting with platties and watching our females plumping up.
I also love seeing how you have a clever breeding notebook with pictures.
@MacHamish thank you so much and good luck with your platies! :)
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GREAT VID! DEFINITELY A LIKE!!
thank you very much :) appreciate your support!
I’ve been thinking of getting some platy fish. I want to use lower quality as feeders for my turtle.
That is the way I am doing it as well :) Selecting the best ones, and selling the lower quality fish to my friends with Oscars and Turtles... It is much better way than calling the fish especially considering the high nutritional value of it if you feed them high-protein diet :) Thank you for your comment, and have a nice day! :)
Very Educational extremely interesting
Thank you very much! 😊
Great job!
James Smith Jr. Thank you very much 😊👌🏻
Awesome
Thank you 🙏🏻
Wow amazing! ❤️
Thank you 🙏🏻
Awesome video brother
@we are fish lover thank you very much mate!
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I love it
Thank you 😊🙏
Excellent information! ℹ
Great video! 🎦
New subscriber! 👍
@BigSky thank you very much! :)
The babies platy is born live their size is rather bigger than the guppy fish.👌👌💪💪👍👍👍👍👍❤
That's pretty crazy ,great vid bro,left you a like
Slavi Venev Thank you, really glad you like it 😊
Hermosos!!!😍❤🙌
Thank you :)
Amazing
Thank you
Very nice Video. Thank you.
@Dennis Klemens thank you :)
They can cross breed with swordtail fish, and the offspring look like platys and some of the males have a little swordtail.
I have had my frys for about 4-3weeks not and they haven’t even grown. I’ve given them food 2 times a day, cyclops and flakes. I also change their water regularly
@JOUSEFyuh Yuh they have grown a little bit and will grow don't worry :) In case that you have lower water temperature, they will grow slower, but will have increased lifespan. If you would increase water temperature, they would grow quicker. Just be patient and you will see them grow don't worry! :)
I’ve had mine for about 2 months now and they haven’t grown as much as the ones in the video. Must be because of cold water too? I do have a goldfish so water needs to be kept cooler
Perfect
Aww back then this species was my fav fish. I love em absolutely. They’re kinda prone to mysterious death somehow, in that they disappear slowly all of them... idk why
RayMondoART you mean the adults or juveniles are disappearing?
@@undersurfacechannel yes! Idk what happened, the tank was heavily planted too and they bred a lot in one season.
Love it
@Nanette Lai thank you :)
Wonderful video thanks a lot
@Fishers of Men Thank you :) really glad to hear that!
I am starting a similar project with Guppies. It's exciting.
Good luck. Hopefully your project is well on the way by now 😊
@@undersurfacechannel Despite having a few set backs so far it is going well. I have a male born in my tank who is handsome and mellow, and despite all of my original females dying, I have introduced a growing batch of new females. It is a lot of trial and error but I am seeing positive results. My goal is to breed a batch of purple elephant ear guppies. 🙂
Hi great video love the content so much thanks, btw is inbreeding a problem? How long before you have to reintroduce fresh blood?
@Andres Armenta thank you very much! With platies I don't really mind it as they are not that much inbred and also females get to breed with multiple males, not like with guppies when I particularly select one male to breed with all females... So I would not say inbreeding would be a problem here :) But its definitely good to outcross them once in the while...
I like your process of selecting breeder fish, but what about inbreeding? What is your process of dealing with that?
Crossing variety of generations not the lingle line together 😊 for now it is enough to keep the lines clean and healthy 😊
Platy is love I hwant to create hi dorsal of that hoping soon I can get breeders starter hehe. Bluemoon cross hi fin platy
Reggie Fish and Fun That is a great idea, I was thinking about crossing them with Red Velvet Swordtail to get that alongated sword like tail on them 😊
Reggie Fish and Fun But if you’ll be doing that cross, looking forward to video about that 😊👌🏻
@@undersurfacechannel Probable it will take too long beczuse we all know that platy is very slow in growing But hopefully soon hehe
@@reggiefishandfun770 Yeah thats true :) but maybe you can start shooting from the beginning and take us "viewers" through whole process :) would be cool...
Once a platy fish breed and how many days want to next breeding
@Mirsad c k yeps :) it is a great and rewarding feeling to breed them :)
Nice.👍
@alexs aquariums thank you very much! :)
@@undersurfacechannel no worries. You have some lovely platys there .👍✌
Just subbed also I forgot to do it when I wat had the video lol 👍✌
alexs aquariums Thank you very much 😊
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Thank you!
What we should give to one day frys.
To eat.
Brine shrimp, crashed flakes or boiled egg yolk :)
i noticed a fry in the tank in that green plant bush thing around 3:28
i’m that yeeted fetus Yea, there are always some swimming around... I only separate fry once or maybe twice and the rest of the time I leave them to do their own thing... and some always survive hidden in plants 😊
Great video thank you for sharing. I bought 3 female Bumblebee Platy fish from my local pet store and have had them for 3 months now and every month they give birth ! They have not been with a male since I bought them 3 months ago is this normal? Thanks
Can I mix Hamburg platy and Tuxedo platy together?
You sure can, but I am not really sure what the offspring is going to look like :)
@@undersurfacechannel, thanks I will try and see… May be some new offspring ‘Hamxedo’… Haha. Thank you for the reply. God bless!
@@ChongChiuSenOfficial Share the results afterwards 😊 I am super curious as well 😂
Im new to breeding plattys, can i ask how can you tell they are great quality? It it colours etc? Thanks!
@Emily Quincey19 mostly focus on the general body shape, shape of the fins and general vitality... Try to choose fish that have healthy beautiful coloration, robust and uniformed body, healthy fins with no damage and of course super active and vital. Try to avoid fish that seems paler (it is one of the sings of fish being unhealthy), avoid fish with weird body shapes (mostly genetic defect), ripped fins - these fish are usually bullied and also avoid fish that are not very active, just swimming passively at the top or bottom of aquarium... I hope these tips help and good luck with choosing :)
my platy just gave birth. How long until i feed them powdered food
You can do that immediately 😊 hopefully they are grown by now 😅
@@undersurfacechannel another one of my platies gave birth. And then the first one that gave birth gave birth again. And I have 3 pregnant fish
@@undersurfacechannel where can I give them away? I think it’s about time that I give them away because if I keep them with my adults any longer it’ll stunt their growth (it’s another batch)
Any tips to breed them quickly?
Feed them a lot of live/frozen foods. Ideally brine shrimps. Those are like steroids for them 😂👌🏻
One of mines is having fry as we soewk
Congratulations and good luck growing them up 😊
Do you think I would be able to breed guppies or platties in a 10 gallon tank? And also what do you feed the fry?
@RWX you definitely can if you would get yourself group like 10 of them. Just don't overcrowd it and make sure to have good filtration a do regular water changes :) Also remember male to female ratio 1-2 and you can feed fry variety of food. Powder fry food, baby brine shrimp or crushed fish flakes are definitely most popular. If you have some high-quality flakes you can simply put them into small plastic bag and keep squeezing them until you got them to powder and feed it to fry that way :) Hope this helps, and in case you have any other questions, feel free to ask!
What did you do so she got pregnant tell me to do the same, I have a question if I can take that bucket and put a male Platy and a female Platy in it and how long should I keep them there until they make babies
Hi, am first time having fish. my fish is pregnant. While separating from other fish, for setup that time also the water needs to be in perfect condition. What about heater and filter it’s required r not
Not necessarily, but it would help for sure 😊 most important is that there will be no stress for the fish. Platies are quite hardy 😊
Ou, and good luck, hope it'll go well 😊👌🏻
I wonder how to tell the difference between a female swordtail and a female platy, because my female swordtails look a lot like your platies. I also observe that my swordtails overwhelmingly have female offsprings with F/M ratio of 5:1. I wonder whether because I keep them on the cold side of their temperature range, at 70~72 F.
@Humphrey Appleby well, they are the same family of fish... swordtails can cross-breed with platies so by naked eye it is very difficult to tell the difference in females... important is their genetics. If you would put female platies and female swordtails together, it would be really difficult to separate them again. Therefore always make sure you ain't got platies and swordtails in the same tank. That ratio sounds really interesting. I also keep plates on the cold side but do not have such a crazy ratio... I'd be really curious what can theoretically be causing that :)
My platy fish babies are 14 days old but still they are of the same size what they were at day 1 they are not growing
Try feeding them more food like baby brine shrimp or boiled egg yolk 😊 Sorry for late reply by bow they are probably twice the size 🙈
What type of plants do you use in your tank?
@Nusheen Jafari Amazon Sword and Java moss :)
i just bought some platties. but how do i recognise their genders?
@Samruddhi Gaikwad it is very simple. If they are sexually mature - around 2 months old or more all you have to do is look to the shape of their anal fin. Females have it shaped as Triangle and are usually bigger than males in size and males have anal shaped like a tube/stick called gonopodium :) It really is very simple to figure out, but I also explain it and show pictures in my other video about platies in case you'd have problems figuring it out :) Hope this helps...
Do you have any tips for feeding fry that won’t eat? I gave them some egg, fish flake, and crushed up fish food, I can’t tell if they ate or not they’re just laying at the bottom of the breeder box, and they’re about 1 1/2 days old. Is that a bad sign? This is my first and unexpected fry batch so I’m very inexperienced with caring for them
@Jimmy Wise make sure you´re feeding them food they can fit into their tiny mouths... if they are healthy they should be moving and free swimming immediately or worse case after couple of hours... What sometimes happens is when they're born in breeding box, female will give birth to premature fry because of stress and in that case they might be lying around at the bottom for a while but they should definitely be free swimming next day. If you would be able to hatch baby brine shrimp, that is the best food for fry but you´ll be fine with crashed flakes or egg yolk as well :) Hope that helps...
@@undersurfacechannel Ok thanks so much! Im pretty sure she gave birth prematurely because I just got her from the fish store the same day she had her fry she was probably stressed from the trip, but right now 1 out of 3 is swimming and looks really healthy its been eating egg yoke and brine shrimp the other two are eating too but just aren't swimming
How did u even make them grow so fast
Just feed them well and they'll grow :)
What food you're feeding to these platy baby fishes?
@Raji Prahald I feed them fry powder food & live baby brine shrimp :)
@@undersurfacechannel oohh thanks for your reply
@@rajiprahlad3302 No worries :) Have a lovely day!
@@undersurfacechannel ☺️☺️☺️
I wanna do this but no LFS here that takes the offsprings haha
kevin banal Yea the same here... I usually only move it forward to my friends for free 😏
Hi, do you put any Snails or Pleco in your platy tank?
@Jun Hao yes I have malarian trumpet snails, ramshorn snails but I currently do not have any placos, but you can definitely get some for your platy tanks no problem :)
How many times a day did u feed and change water?
@Kyle Mohammed I am feeding smaller amounts 2-3 times per day and changing 50% of water every Sunday :)
Nice meet broo
Thank you!
Just babies , older 10 days
How long are they pregnant for
Dude. I set up a tank, dechlorinate. Let it run for an hour or two and then just put in the fish. Ive never ever ever aclamated a fish, or cycled a tank. And i havent lost 1 single fish and i have 10 tanks, everything from galaxy rasboras, to pea puffers and plattys to shovel nose catfish and oscars. Why keep fish in quarenteen for 2 weeks? Jut make sure you do a watwr change every singe week for a month that first month, because beneficial bacteria is still building up. And then your good. I water change my tanks every 2 to sometimes 4 weeks. Through out the old whives tales omg
And “dude”, I drive all the time and have never been in a car accident, so I guess that means it is pointless for me to wear a seat belt…
Precautions and redundant safety measures are not without reason. It’s good that you have fish safe tap water and the stock you get are all healthy enough. That doesn’t mean “extra efforts” are unwarranted.
How do you determine the gender of your fish
Hey, it is very simple. Females have their anal fin shaped as triangle. Males have "gonopodium" instead that they use for breeding. It looks like stick/tube... If you check my other video about platies, it is clearly explained over there with pictures :)
Thank you so much you really helped
Hi there, Should I feed the fry immediately after they or born?
Yes you can 😊 And feed them less but often 👌🏻
@@undersurfacechannel Thank you! I only managed to get 2 Baby Platys alive the rest died....
I think they are smaller than usual.... is it normal? They are too transparent... 🤔🤔
Yes brine shrimp etc
@@MargieB51 😅 Thank you...
Feeder fish?
@Christina Kemp yeps, raised up on high-quality protein diet :) great feeders...
To feed other animals?
Do you sell them or giveaway to viewers? 😅
@Prosun Sakar I do sell, but usually only on local auctions :) Depends on where in the world you are mate :)
Amazing platies. Love from India bro ♥️
Are you available on Instagram?
@Posun Sarkar yes, my instagram is @patsfishtanks :)
why do people put the day first if we say the month first?
Who has the answers?
From what i heard its not Sway
Great vid BTW
Can we feed fish flakes or fish food dude ☹️❤️
@RAY-J of course, flakes are always a very good alternative :)
It's a fack Platy fish reach full size after about Four months.
wish i was good with fish...mine always die.
Wil Average Its not that difficult 😊 just watch some of my videos for beginners, get some easy to keep fish and they’ll be fine 😅👌🏻
Dont sale as feeder fish . Give them free ..to others who can buy ..
I am doing that sometimes too :) especially with my guppies
I have a kind of weird question haha. I have a female platy who’s been pregnant and is supposed to give birth in maybe a week. the male keeps getting it on with her today and she seems to be swimming away each time. Even tho I just put them back together because I had them separated for the last few days bShould I separate them again or is that normal? Lol