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Information On Platys2007-11-24 23:37:10

2) Supplement your livebearers diet with vegetables which form an integral part of a livebearers diet in the wild I would reccomend blanched zucchini (courgette) or cucumber, flakes are only so good and try to add to the meaty part of your livebearers diet with blood worms or adult brine shrimp.

3) This should probably be number 1 as it is the most important. Patience! there is nothing to stop your livebearer giving birth and the odds are stacked in her favour if you have followed the procedures already mentioned.

Now you've got the fry leave them in the net breeder or their own aquarium, feed them little and often - 3 times a day for maximum growth- with finely crushed flake food (as fine as you can crush it, use your fingers and rub them together really grinding it up very finely because any large bits will remain uneaten and will rot polluting your tank). When your baby fish have grown to about one inch which will take between two and four months you can release them back into the aquarium with their parents. This is also the size fish stores will be willing to buy livebearer fry off you. Growth will vary on quality of food and also of tank temperature, 79 degrees fahrenheit is about the maximum recommended and at this temperature the fry will grow faster than at a lower temperature. Not recommended if you have other fish in the tank though and step up the temperature increase slowly.

I would be suprised if you had poecilid that wasn't "hit". Technically these fish don't get pregnant as this is a term reserved for the mother providing nutrients during development. Although it would appear to be a pregnancy since the young are born alive it is not. The eggs are developed by the female and then fertilized by the male (or by stored sperm). The fry then develop from the egg without any nutrition from the female other than an oxygen supply. The term used for a female with developing fry is "gravid".