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agent_alice  Hobbyist Posts: 114 Kudos: 115 Votes: 0 Registered: 11-Jul-2004   | if i have different varieties of platys, can they interbreed if they are different colors? |
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gnr4ever8794 Enthusiast Posts: 253 Kudos: 222 Votes: 24 Registered: 12-Apr-2004  | yes they sure can. i have 6 platies of 5 different colors n they all breed together. |
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fish1 Banned Posts: 1727 Kudos: 1910 Votes: 58 Registered: 09-May-2004 | i dotn think the colors make up the species! |
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| gnr4ever8794 Enthusiast Posts: 253 Kudos: 222 Votes: 24 Registered: 12-Apr-2004 | does anybody know if they prefer their own color or not? for some reason i have this thing with thinking fish are like racist against different colors but I'm just weird. i have 5 different colors of 6 platies so I'm curious |
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Ferox Enthusiast Posts: 219 Kudos: 187 Votes: 28 Registered: 19-Dec-2003  | I don't know about platties, but I did some experiments wiht Bettas and Bettas at least seem to prefer colour similar to their own in a mate. <Vet in Training> Blog under development: http://www.nearlydrferox.blogging4life.com/ |
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Theresa_M    Moderator Queen of Zoom Posts: 3649 Kudos: 4280 Votes: 790 Registered: 04-Jan-2004  | Mine are all different and it doesn't seem to bother them. Makes for some interesting fry colors. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is water at the bottom of the ocean |
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