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This video shows a group of Marigold Platies in an aquarium in our
facility. Click here
for more about buying Platies like these from us.
Here is a large aquarium in our
facility with hundreds of assorted Platies.
Scientific
Names Xiphophorus maculatus and Xiphophorus variatus.
Comments
Platies have been an aquarium favorite for a long time. Our late friend Richard Buttner brought some of the very first Platies to America from
Germany in 1899 on a steamship from Germany.
He told us that he kept the Platies in tin cans and every day there was an oily scum on the water in the cans. So he poured some of the water out and added good
fresh water. He repeated pouring out the old water and replacing it with fresh water several times, until the water in the tin cans was crystal clear, and the oily scum on the surface of the
water was gone.
Platies are available in many color varieties. They are livebearers like Guppies, Mollies, and Swordtails. Click here
to read about breeding Mollies. Platies are easy to breed, but the babies are smaller than the babies of Mollies or Swordtails, so baby Platies are a little more difficult to raise.
Platies are available in many color varieties. They are livebearers like Guppies, Mollies, and Swordtails. Click here
to read about breeding Mollies. Platies are easy to breed, but the babies are smaller than the babies of Mollies or Swordtails, so baby Platies are a little more difficult to raise.
Here is a beautiful young Male White Calico Platy about 1.5 inches long.
A Female Gold Wag Tail Platy about 1.5" long. Click here or on the picture to
see a bigger picture.
Red Painted Platy. A young male about 1.5" long. The coloration of Painted Platies is natural. They are not artificially painted like Painted Glass
Fish.
A young male Neon Orange Mickey Mouse Platy about 1.5" inches long. Can you see the Mickey Mouse image on the tail?
The pictures above show some of the Platies for sale at our online retail tropical fish store. They are deep bodied, colorful,
healthy, and always near the water's surface looking for food. Click here for more about buying Platies like these from us.
Appropriate Home
In an aquarium with an External Power Filter with a BIO-Wheel,
1/4 inch or less of gravel, and an Aquarium Heater
adjusted to between 78 and 82 degrees F. Click here for more about warm water aquariums. Like most livebearers Platies will do better with 1 Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt per 5 gallons of
water. Click here for more about Aquarium Salt.
Recommended Diet
Feed Platies a diet of
floating flake food plus
freeze dried blood worms,
which are actually
mosquito larvae. Click here
for more about feeding fish. I feed all livebearers a few Black Worms every other day. Click here for more about Black
Worms.
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this advertiser's web site.
Compatibility
Platies live best in a group with a few male Platies and several female Platies. Platies are good tank mates for Mollies, Swordtails,
Angels, Corydoras Catfish, Plecostomus,
and Bigger Tetras such as Black Skirts, Red Serpaes, and Silver Tips. Click here to read more about several groups of compatible fish.
Size and Life Span
Platies can live for 3 to 5 years and grow to 3". Sometimes they have lived longer and grown bigger.
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Replies about Platies.
Books about Platies
The books shown below are listed on Amazon.com. You can click on the title or on the image of a book to go to the page at Amazon.com, where that
book is listed and discussed. In some cases you can preview several of the pages in that book.
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