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Firenze Fingerling Posts: 18 Kudos: 20 Votes: 0 Registered: 05-Jan-2005   | If a Mickey Mouse Platy breeds with another platy that doesn't have the mark, do the babies typically come out with or without the black spot? |
 Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47 |     |
chelaine Big Fish Posts: 383 Kudos: 343 Votes: 78 Registered: 23-Jul-2005  | well i can't answer this question directly, but i can however say that i had a female white platy somehow get pregnant by a mickey mouse platy, and she had some mickey mouse some white, and some orange fry? so... i think they could maybe store sperm from different breeds and have multiple-fathered fry. if that makes sense. then again im sure its a little genetics in there too. Chelle  *Chelle* I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious... |
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Corydoran  Enthusiast Posts: 269 Kudos: 370 Votes: 1217 Registered: 27-Sep-2004 | How long have you had this platy? Determining paternity can be hard because if you just purchased her, your next few batches of fry might come from a mickey mouse tankmate from the fish store. I have had fry from a mickey mouse female and I'm 99% sure that their father is not a mickey mouse platy. They did have the markings. |
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| chelaine Big Fish Posts: 383 Kudos: 343 Votes: 78 Registered: 23-Jul-2005 | yeah.. the thing is, they can hold sperm from other fish for up to three months, so you could have a fish having fry that are from a tank mate three months before. so you know.. its hard to really tell. chelle*Chelle* I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious... |
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LITTLE_FISH     ***** Little Fish ***** Master of Something Posts: 7303 Kudos: 1997 Votes: 670 Registered: 20-May-2005 | I would assume that something similar to chelaine’s answer would happen. Most of them might show the markings, but to varying degrees of clarity and size. Just my guess. I can’t wait to breed my Sunset Platies with Golden Twin-Bars Ingo  |
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| Firenze Fingerling Posts: 18 Kudos: 20 Votes: 0 Registered: 05-Jan-2005 | I've had her for a while... maybe 8 months? So she's probably already used up any stored sperm, right? And in that time I've never noticed any other fry either, but my other fish could have eaten them. |
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| tankie Fish Addict Posts: 857 Kudos: 848 Votes: 230 Registered: 15-Mar-2005  | its possible...i had mine the same thing. |
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