Seeing as we have a few baby Platy in our 29 gallon, and we know two of our other platies are going to have kids real soon we went and bought a 10g yesterday to keep future babies into. Its cycling now.
Any tips on how to care for the new babies?

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Live bearer fry are very simple to look after, you can feed them baby brine shrimp, infusoria, frozen and very finely crushed flake amongst pretty much anything. I fed mine on a diet of crushed flake and also frozen and they have all done great

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Good to know! We had found 2 babies in our 29g, and we had no idea one had even had babies. We assumed the others got eaten. Theyve done a good job for about 2 weeks hideing up in the floating plants so none of the others get to them. We fed them the crushed flakes and they seemed to do fine. Well come yesterday we cant fine them :-( so sad. Now we will have a separate tank for the others to have their babies in.

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You may be surprised fry are extremely good hiders, i thought i only had 2 fry remaining from my guppies after about 3 weeks i noticed my guess was way out and was actually 15 fry they hid amongst anything they could find and once they were big enough they emerged

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With my heavily plants tanks I just let the babies growup in the tank.


my .02

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fw leiden since 1979, fo salt since 1979, mixed reef 55g 2002-2009. Strong emphasis on the tank taking care of itself. Balanced with plant life, no water changes, tap water, no filters in FW. Only dosing calcium, alk, mag in marine reef tanks. http://www.aquariumforum.com/f15/my-...ods-26410.html
recent tanks (till 2009) 7 years- 10g FW leiden 7 yrs, 55g mixed reef 7, 2 yrs, 20g FW leiden, 10 g fw leiden , 29g mixed reef, current tank 55g leiden