As an inexperienced fish owner, I put a platy and 5 white cloud minnows together in a 10 gallon tank. For the first few months they were fine, but then the platy began chasing the minnows around. He never actually hurt them, but since then I have moved him into a bigger tank by himself and recently introduced 2 females. If you are going to keep them with other fish, get a bigger tank. My goal is to have nothing smaller than a 20 gallon eventually. 10 is honestly a little too small.
Hi! I just have a couple of questions my first question is... would it be ok for a single plate fish to live alone... and my second question is... I’d it ok to only keep females or only keep males together?
Thank you for watching Lailia’. The care requirements would be the same just the food is smaller. I would use the Aquarium Coop fry food or ground up flake food.
@@FishTankBarn for sure, I just love platys they were my first fish and I can’t think of anything else to put in my 5 gallon (my 20 gallon isn’t set up yet)
If I dont want my platys to breed can I just keep all males or females I currently have 3 danios and 1 platy I had 3 but lost 2 and I'm a beginner have a lot of problems with algae my water is very green even after a water change
Stuart you can keep all males or all females and they will not breed. I would recommend testing your tank water and seeing what the parameters are and then testing your source water as well.
The platies in the aquarium hobby are almost entirely hybrids. The red ones are always hybrids. The wag ones are always hybrids. If you put female Xiphorus malaculus platies we with male Xiphorus helleri swordtails the first generation of babies are red with shorter swords than normal. They look like red swordtails with short swords. By breeding back with Xiphorus helleri it is possible to get fish that seem to be red Xiphorus malaculus. In order to get the red color a gene from Xiphorus malaculus must combine with a gene from Xiphorus helleri. The same thing is true true for a wag fish (black fins).
