ryanjury Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 I am just wondering for my own curiosities sake if mollies and platties can cross breed? I thought that mollies and guppies can cross and swords and platties can cross because they were the same families. I have tried to search the net some say the above and some say they can.. It is purely for curiosities sake maybe someone on here has some factual reports of it happening etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-town... Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 hmmm not that I know of the only two I have seen breed and successfully produce fry are swordtail cross platy havent heard of guppies or mollies inter-breeding with any other species of livebearer but I could be wrong :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 PLaty and molly can only corssbreed artificialy i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesarz Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Check out the livebearers r us website and they say they can cross breed and have done so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 I am sure I have seen platy x mollies at a lfs at one stage, this was out of town and apparently a local breeder there had taken them in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish_tank0311 Posted April 4, 2010 Report Share Posted April 4, 2010 I know that mollies can cross with guppies, its just very rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted April 4, 2010 Report Share Posted April 4, 2010 :-? The last post was from 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted April 4, 2010 Report Share Posted April 4, 2010 ive heard offspring are often infertile when this happens too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbunting Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 hi there i have had platys and swords cross breed and it was the female sword who gave birth and some of the swords were just much shorter than a normal sword but same size and breed from the fry and got platys throuh and through but i found that when the male platy breed with the sword i got about 3 time more fry than nomal tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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