Should be Molly
Should be Molly
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Andrew
It's a female of one of the fancy varieties of Platy.
Small is beautiful.
So is this Molly or platy?
Platy. Mollies are somewhat longer
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How to know which is male or female ?
It is not like guppy which male has a anal fin
Apparently, platies have anal fins too. Look at the picture about Male:Female ratio.
http://www.wikihow.com/Breed-and-Care-for-Platies
More information here on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platy_(fish)
That's unreliable
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From the pic, your red platy is a female as it lacks the male genital organ, gonopodium.
Females gonopodium looks like a triangle. And males have sharp gonopodium
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I can differentiate them in lfs ==
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You can't just assume that what the LFS ID is correct, sometimes they ID wrongly or don't even have any idea how to ID the fishes properly, so they end up just anyhow guessing.
Here is a comparison diagram to help in differentiating livebearer fish genders:
Source: http://www.thesmileyfish.com/?p=50
If you don't see any distinctly elongated gonopodium on either of the fishes, then both of them may just turn out to be females.
Well this lfs is a famous one
is there any other fish that will mate with platy?
Swordtails can interbreed with platys... the offspring will exhibit the characteristics of both swordtails and platys.
But lfs say swordtail cannot put with platy cos they will bite them
Depends on their aggression. Like rams, some may co-habit but others may not
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