i have two red platys, and two blue platys. each set has a male and female, and both females i believe to be pregnant. but i was just curious weather one red platy would mate with one of the blue platys? also can say a gorami mate with a mollie? or any fish? if not why not? thank you
2007-03-21 05:22:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
i was wondering the same question!
2007-03-21 05:57:06 · answer #1 · answered by *mommy to 3 boys* 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The platies can (and will) mate with any other of a different gender. The colors are different, but they're still a platy - the same species.
Your gourami and molly won't have babies. For one, they are far too different of species. This would be like putting a dog and a cat together and expecting them to have babies. If the fish were more closely related, then maybe. You would need to get a fish that's at least another type of gourami for this to be possible. If the fish were of the same genus (a way to show how closely two types of organisms are related), you might get fry, but the fry might not able to reproduce themselves. If you want to spawn (breed) them and their babies, they should both be the same species (type).
Also, a gourami is an egglayer, mollies will give live birth. If you want to try spawning, the molly and the platies are easy ones.
2007-03-21 12:36:30 · answer #2 · answered by copperhead 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, the red platy will mate with the blue and vice versa because they are all the same species. Platies will not discriminate against color.
A gourami can not mate with a molly because they are drasticly different species. The gourami breeds in a bubble nest and lays eggs that need to be fertalized externally. A Molly is fertalized internally and therefore gives birth to live young after about 30 days. A gourami can only breed with another gourami of the same species, so a perl can not breed with a dwarf. Mollies can only breed with their own species also, so there will be no platy-molly hybrids.
If you are trying to breed for color, its tough, I know. The prefered parents need to be set off to their selves in a 10gal tank, well planted(fake or real) and left to themselves for a while. When you see a dark spot on the back of your platy, that means she is gravid(pregnant). The male fertalizes her internally with his gondopodium(its basically a penis). When you see this spot, moniter her well. When you notice babies in the tank, remove the mother to a small birthing dish and take the father out of the 10gal all together. The platy mom should give birth to the rest of her babies and you can put the babies in the 10 gal. Platies will eat their babies, so the parents need to be away from the fry.
Hope I answered your question! The breeding thing goes for all live bearers, so you can use it on mollies, guppies, or platies, or even sword tails!
2007-03-21 12:31:46 · answer #3 · answered by Sputz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The different colors of platys will mate with each other. There really is no doubt about that, and you will likely get some very interesting fry. As for your other question, a platy will not mate with a gourami, or any other fish (or at least produce any fry). They are of a different species, and its really not possible. Its the same reason you couldn't have any children with a elephant. Its genetics!
2007-03-21 12:30:58 · answer #4 · answered by Audrey A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Platy's are all the same species, regardless of color. Your platys will not differentiate by color. A gourami is a completely different fish, with different breeding behaviors, they lay eggs in this case, the mollies are live bearers. They will not breed together.
A platy will mate with a swordtail, as they are very close biologically. Platy's and mollies are different enough that I've never herd of them breeding together.
2007-03-21 12:31:28 · answer #5 · answered by Sank63 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the male platys can and will mate with either of the females. The color doesn't matter, they are all platys. A gourami cannot mate with a molly, only with other gouramis of the same species. You have a Dwarf Gourami, right? It can only mate with a dwarf gourami of the opposite sex. As to why not, it's all in genetics really. The genes would have to match up closely for the fish to produce young.
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2007-03-21 12:29:21 · answer #6 · answered by magicman116 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes the males will mate with either female.
If your wondering if your gouromi got your molly pregnant the answer is no. Even if you have had those two fish alone for a long time, mollies can have fry without being with male mollies for quite sometime. Just a neat survival thing about mollies
2007-03-21 12:36:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋