I recently had to seperate my male ans female plattys as they were breeding like bunnies and over-populating their tank.
Neither mom or dad eat their babies, ever. Even the teeny tiniest fry will swim around both parents and they ignore them for the most part.
So I was able to leave mom and dad with their kids for a couple months; now petco doesnt want any more platty donations and my eBay listing has only sold about 8 fish so I had to get a new aquarium and seperate mom and dad, besides he was really starting to just harass her like a crazed horny drunk frat boy who took like 8 viagra just to see what would happen....
anyways, I have dad with 5 neon tetras and realized later that I jad accidentally netted one of his off-spring in the process too - baby is decent size.
I had some neons with the platty fry and they schooled together, it was prettt darn cute
anyways again, he swam around all histeric and crazy looking for his mate.
I was worried about him just having a nervous breakdown or something! Poor hormone pumped Boilermaker missed his Minnie Mouse.. (our fish's names btw)
Its been a half a day now and hes a lot better but still flutters around every now and then
Finally to my question: is he going to be ok just having his one 3/4" off-spring and those friendly neons for tank-mates?
I don't want to buy another male because he was a little agressive towards the last male we had.
His little baby-dude is just hanging with the neons like his brothers and sisters did in the other tank
I will put Boilermaker back with Minnie once a month for a few days so they can breed again, otherwise im hoping he will be ok as is.
please let me know if I should change anything or if there are any other fish that could be his buddies
also, and other sites I can sell my fry on!
thank you!
Neither mom or dad eat their babies, ever. Even the teeny tiniest fry will swim around both parents and they ignore them for the most part.
So I was able to leave mom and dad with their kids for a couple months; now petco doesnt want any more platty donations and my eBay listing has only sold about 8 fish so I had to get a new aquarium and seperate mom and dad, besides he was really starting to just harass her like a crazed horny drunk frat boy who took like 8 viagra just to see what would happen....
anyways, I have dad with 5 neon tetras and realized later that I jad accidentally netted one of his off-spring in the process too - baby is decent size.
I had some neons with the platty fry and they schooled together, it was prettt darn cute
anyways again, he swam around all histeric and crazy looking for his mate.
I was worried about him just having a nervous breakdown or something! Poor hormone pumped Boilermaker missed his Minnie Mouse.. (our fish's names btw)
Its been a half a day now and hes a lot better but still flutters around every now and then
Finally to my question: is he going to be ok just having his one 3/4" off-spring and those friendly neons for tank-mates?
I don't want to buy another male because he was a little agressive towards the last male we had.
His little baby-dude is just hanging with the neons like his brothers and sisters did in the other tank
I will put Boilermaker back with Minnie once a month for a few days so they can breed again, otherwise im hoping he will be ok as is.
please let me know if I should change anything or if there are any other fish that could be his buddies
also, and other sites I can sell my fry on!
thank you!
