How to take care of fish fry?

Question

I have five platy fish fry. Can i put them in a piece of tuperware until they are old enough to be put back in the tank?

Answer 1

Yes, feed them powdered flake food, and baby brine shrimp or micro worms if possible. Make sure to buy a sponge filter to keep the water clean, with fry is is double as important to keep the water clean!

Answer 2

My platy had about 30 fry the other day. I left them and there parents in the tank, so far only one got eaten. But as long as the fry learn to swim when big fish come near, they should be ok. But if they don't move, the big fish think that they're food.  

Answer 3

salt them is better

after a couple of years dump in the tank

Answer 4

No.They need the light and filtration and temperture they were born in.What I do is take the filter tube and a rubber band and place a small peice of guaze over it and put it back thet can't get sucked up that way and keep enough plants in your tank real or fake makes no difference so they have plenty of hiding places.I raise them all in the same tank.Yes some will get eaten but some won't.The life of a fish.

Answer 5

i would just buy a breeder net and put then in there.   it's easier then just putting them in a tuperware container.    

Answer 6

when i had platy fry i just washed out a 1liter water bottle and poked a bunch of holes in it and anchored it to the bottom of the tank till it got a little bigger and worked just fine. it was still in the cumminity tank and still got all the filtration and proper water temp it needed

Answer 7

You're much better off to leave them in the main tank with lots of plants.  The water quality in a container will be bad unless you change it constantly and that creates the problem of stress for the fry.  The temperature will also fluctuate a lot which is not good.

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