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mishababy
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: April 2005
Location: arkansas
Posts: 42
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Review Date: Fri May 20, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $2.99
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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easy to take care of
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Cons:
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need at least 2 females to 1 male
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Easy fish to breed, and lovely to watch grow bigger. I currently have 8 babies YIPPPEEE 
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Lotus
Moderator
Registered: August 2003
Location: Southern California
Posts: 13635
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Review Date: Sun May 22, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Hardy, peaceful, attractive
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These are some of the most peaceful livebearers, that don\'t have some of the \"peskiness\" of swordtails or mollies. They breed less than guppies, so fry are generally easy to find homes for. They make great community fish.
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CAPSLOCK
Super Fish
Registered: July 2004
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 3032
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Review Date: Thu June 16, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1.99
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Many available colors
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Nice fish, available in any color imaginable. Great community fish, pretty hardy.
There are also dwarf platies available, which get to around 1 inch long... so they still look like babies when full grown. As a plus, my dwarf male doesn\'t pester the regular size female, although they do breed. He\'s about 1/4 the size of her, so he couldn\'t pester her if he wanted to.
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bmw3027
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: August 2005
Posts: 11
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Review Date: Wed August 17, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $2.49
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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nice color
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somewhat dirty
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My platies had fry within a week of being in the tank, and as of now there are about 6 left hiding in the plants.
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Smalltank3
Large Fish
Registered: December 2005
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 958
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Review Date: Sat February 4, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $2.49
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Color Variations are fantastic
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Cons:
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This is such a great fish there isnt any
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This is a wonderful fish for beginners of breeding. Since they come in so many colors like the guppy, they are so beautiful and add so much color to a tank. These are easy to breed. Have atleast 2 females per male as having one female the male will make the female stressed out. Anyway, I highly recommend this fish to any aquarists willing to have a peaceful and colorful tank.
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tubbs24
Medium Fish
Registered: January 2006
Location: USA
Posts: 460
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Review Date: Mon April 10, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $2.99
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Very colorful and peaceful
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Cons:
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None
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These fish are great! I currently have 5 adults (2 males, 3 females) and 18 fry! They breed like crazy, but make sure if you plan on breeding have at least 1 male per 2 females. If they do have fry, the fry are really small so you'll have to search!
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TheFighterFish
Large Fish
Registered: February 2006
Location: California
Posts: 847
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Review Date: Fri May 19, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1.99
| Rating: 7
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Platies are real peaceful fish. They might not be the most interesting to watch, but its a great pleasure to the eyes. This is because platies have all different types of strains and colors.
If you have females and males, they mate. There's hardly anything you can do about it. It's good to keep this in mind when buy platies or swordtails.
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John C
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: May 2006
Posts: 1
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Review Date: Mon May 29, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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Very colourful fish and excellent for algae control
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Cons:
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Nothing negative to say about platys
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I decided to set up a a planted aquarium but also wanted something a little different and eye catching. I ended up opting for a planted central american biotope as both fish and plants from this area of the world were readily avilable at the LFS. Several fishes available included ameca splendens, mollies, swords, guppies and platys. As my tank was small, 15 gal, the most suitable fish for my purposes was the platy.
The planted tank was initially cycled using a raw shrimp. During the cycling process there was considerable algal growth on the plants, rocks and the substrate. Within 1 week of introduction to the tank the platys devoured most of the brown algae and the green beard algae .
This was my first planted tank and the platys add intrest through the wide variety of colours. Also due to their ability to control algae people viewing the tank actually believe that I know something about keeeping a planted aquarium.
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jamiecarter
Little Fish
Registered: July 2006
Location: uk northampton
Posts: 154
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Review Date: Thu August 31, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 6
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Pros:
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cheap
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Cons:
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mine wernt hardy...........
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ive always had bad luck with these fish, they haver always died on me
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Cas
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: January 2007
Posts: 82
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Review Date: Sat January 13, 2007
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $3.95
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Cheap, Good beginner fish, Active
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Cons:
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Pick a good one
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Great fish, great beginner fish will survive anything, very inquisitive and active, but won't bother other fish much. Howvere, don't pick the quiet ones that hide and won't ever come out they aren't usually good. I had 3, 2 lively ones I still have and one shy one that died (although they will be shy and hide to begin with as it may take a little while for them to come out of their shell). I have a male and female, male may bother the female slightly but she can hold her own so its okay.
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Jake
Little Fish
Registered: February 2007
Location: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia , Canada
Posts: 105
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Review Date: Mon March 12, 2007
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $3.95
| Rating: 9
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Playful, Active, Easy. That is what Platys are all about.
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Cons:
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Medium Bio-Load
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Platys are the most dosile fish I have found in my 10 gallon they were so active, always meeting you at the front of the tank to be fed. Always swimming around playing in the bubbles, filter current, or anywhere else they can find. Including pushing my snail off the glass.
They do have a medium Bio-Load. I did 40-50% Water change every Sunday when in my 10 gallon, and it was always clean. Now they are in my 30g, and they are even more active.
Great Fish for begginers!
Fun to watch..
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drake53
Medium Fish
Registered: March 2007
Location: southern Texas
Posts: 394
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Review Date: Thu May 29, 2008
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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perfect fish for beginners. good reproduction too
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Mturner615
Little Fish
Registered: December 2005
Location: Harrison Twp. Michigan
Posts: 112
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Review Date: Mon September 1, 2008
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1.99
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Colorful, fun to watch, easy care
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Cons:
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Suicidal
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Mine are fun to watch. They love to pick at some algae on rocks or plants. They're pretty gentle and get along with most fish.
Mine tend to try to be suicidal and jump through gaps in my tank lid. But now I have the gaps covered, and they haven't tried to jump out since then.
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