Got some new dalmation platy's today

I had a bad ratio of platies (1f, 2 males) which, and lately the males have been getting aggressive with each other and hassling the female.

The weird thing is that the males were trying to breed with each other at first and ignored the female for the first week I had them. Well, I guess the west hollywood lifestyle turned out not so great, so now they needed some females.

Sooo, I decided that I'd go pick up some coral red mickey mouse platys that my lfs had, but when I went, their whole stock were males!! wth?

But, I did spot some nice ones at wal-mart, so i picked up a trio of dalmation platys (1m, 2 f), a gold sunset female, and an all red female. I hope this puts an end to the sausage fest in my 30g.

I was only able to get some decent shots of the dalmations:



Female full of babies with my original platys in the background:



Female in front, male in the back:










The female is full of babies, their eyes can already be seen:

Nice!!

Been getting some spotted/dalmation platys out of my mickeys lately so been pulling them to a tank of their own to see what they produce. So far have sunsets, white, blues, greens and not sure what to call the other color yet. Okay rambling nice looking platys.

Nice looking tank !

Nice looking fish! The plants are very nice too!

Nice looking fish! ive never seen a dalmatian platy before in person. I have a orange painted though which is liek the same ... the spots are on the back half and some on the tail. If you ever get some dalmatian platy fry keep me in mind :)

Shaysfishys wrote:

Nice!!

Been getting some spotted/dalmation platys out of my mickeys lately so been pulling them to a tank of their own to see what they produce. So far have sunsets, white, blues, greens and not sure what to call the other color yet. Okay rambling nice looking platys.

Cool, have you posted any pics? I want to see the blues and greens, and the uncategorized colored one.

lifeisgood wrote:

Nice looking tank !

Thank you, this is definitely my favorite tank right now.

Fern wrote:

Nice looking fish! The plants are very nice too!

Thank you Fern :)

Keelo wrote:

Nice looking fish! ive never seen a dalmatian platy before in person. I have a orange painted though which is liek the same ... the spots are on the back half and some on the tail. If you ever get some dalmatian platy fry keep me in mind :)

Thank you! I am hoping some of the fry will make it by hiding in the plants. I would like to give some away at the SoCal meetings some day.

Nice looking platy's. Never seen the dalmations before.

MarkM wrote:

Nice looking platy's. Never seen the dalmations before.

Thanks, I just kinda called it that, it could be called almost anything, white spotted platy, spotted panda, ink blot platy.... wait... I'm changing it to ink blot platy. MODS change the title!

Nice platies! They make my Sunburst/sunset platies look boring!

Nice find especially for Walmart!

Nice Platys!!!

Just beautiful

I love the coloring on them. I am so jealous. My female black molly just had babbies a few minutes ago.

Pretty fish and looks like they have a very nice tank to live in!

Very nice fish. I like the colors!

Thanks everyone! I'm very happy with their tank. I put it together in one day, but I recently added another piece of driftwood that has the anubias and windlov growing on it.

Update pics soon...