How on Earth do you raise Platy Fry?

Question

We just found out that my Micky Mouse Platy had fry, we were only able to rescue two, but how on earth do you feed them, take care of them, we have a net thing that keeps because we have long suspected that another fish was pregnant but what do we do as far as feeding goes?

My family has:

-a 29 gallon tank

-a breeding net

- TetraMin Tropical Flakes

So the main question is, can we grind up the flakes or should we buy some special "fry food"

How long do they have to stay in the net until we can let them go into the rest of the tank?

I will pick best answer promise

Answer 1

1. Feeding- Get a few flakes in a sandwich bag and finely crush it into powder they will eat this for a few months of they're lives also they have to eat 3-4 times a day

2. try to cut back a little on water changes or instead buy a gravel vacuum

3. And you will have more fry next month so it is best to keep her in the tank to give birth their and then scoop the babies as you see them

4. It takes platies 2-3 months(or until they can't feed into any fishes mouth) for baby platies to return to their parents also try buying a tank divider to seperate the males and females however the females will store the sperm for 5-6 months so you will expect 5-6 more batches

5. Lastly don't stress out with this have fun!

Answer 2

put them in da net.feed them the flakes that are crushed up really good or you can buy a fry food called hikari first bites.i use first bites for my fry.put them back in the tank when they are big enough so they dont fit in the fishies mouth.my platy fry are 14 days old and they grew like 1 milimeter.

Answer 3

Pulverize the flakes to powder.  You can get frozen baby brine shrimp if you don't want to hatch your own, but they will generally do well with a good flake ground fine.  If you have a coffee grinder this works excellent, it's what I have been using with fry for years.

  I mostly breed angels, which do require live micro food, but my summer project is a 150 gallon tub outdoors breeding platys; http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/6177/...

  You can let them out once they are too big to fit into the adult's mouths.  What I do, and most breeders do, is to pack the tank with floating plants, live or artificial, it doesn't matter.  That tub has a floating mass of hornworth the size of a couple of basketballs, along with hundreds of fry.  They smaller fry hide in the dense plants, the adults can't fit in, this is how it works in nature.

Answer 4

Put them in the breeding net, grind the food you have for now into powder. Feed 4-5 times a day. It has to be powder to fit in their mouths. You will have to clean the breeding-net often to make sure it's clean and the food didn't go bad. You can also buy food for fry. You will be able to put them back in after they "big" enough not to be eaten by anything else in your tank and when they will be able to eat the same sized food as the adults.