My female platys were brought prego which I have no problem with. But now I'm starting to wonder what to do with the fry. I'll definitely ask the pet shop if they want them and if they say no they'll probably go for sale on here and trademe... But I'd like to hear your thoughts on letting the females just eat them or possible killing them off myself. I'm just exploring the options here. I really would like to watch a few fry grow up but I don't want any males so if one does grow to be a male they'll breed again and I'll just be repeating the process.

if they are young platy they might not have big broods anyway. After a week, what's left won't tend to get eaten by the parents you can sell them on TM or give them away. It takes a while before they will be ready to breed.

Perhaps you might need a 2nd tank for fry and then keep it as a QT tank (Quarantine tank) for sick fish and new fish. I keep a very basic splish splash tank for that.

Are you kidding?? Feed them to some monster fish!! :happy1:

i would just leave them in the tank to go for it, and then when they get to a decent age where theyre big enough, about 2-3cm then sell them off leaving your original lot in the tank so you dont overpopulate the tank