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I bought a platy and a few days later found out it came from the shop pregnant. It had 3 babies but 1 was born dead. The alive two are in with the mother and the mother is not trying to eat them, they are about 1/4 of an inch at the moment about 3 days old. I have been feeding them crushed up flakes and frozen adult brine shrimp, but I am trying to get frozen baby brine shrimp. They are in a quarantine tank because the mother was still in quarantine when she had the babies. What should I be doing? Am I doing everything right? The temp is about 25-26 degrees. How should I continue raising the fry so they live?
Thankyou for your help!

Given their relative maturity compared to egg-layer fry and overall hardiness, you can treat a platy fry pretty much the same as an adult with a couple minor precautions.
First, be a little more careful with water parameters. Second, the newly hatched baby brine shrimp will be better than adult brine shrimp because they lack the hardened exoskeleton (easier on the digestive tract).

Thankyou for replying.

The babies are going well!

I am feeding the fry frozen baby brine shrimp, I could not get any live one. They are in a breeding sort of netty thing in the qurantine tank, and they will soon be moved into the main tank.

Thankyou for your help.

I've had some fry survive in a community tank and haven't done anything special to encourage their survival. They're pretty feisty and hardy. It sounds like yours have been receiving lots of TLC from you and should do well!

One of the fry died. . .

Three baby fry this morning!!!!

I think one of my zebra danios ate two of them, or I just havn't seen them since my first sighting. I'm sure they are only a day old because mom was fat last night and is not today. i have a question though> i'm treated the tank this morning with a jungle tab for ich and a jungle tab for fungus. you know the ones that fizz. my blue dwarf gourami is fighting both ich and columnaris. will the meds kill my new babies?
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