Our platys have been busy, we have about six babies in the tank, we spotted them yesterday but they could be a few days old already, I am not sure. Our tank has plenty of hiding places, and the babies were quite good yesterday, just hung around cautiously in the pond weed. Today however they are all off and about, swimming around totally unconcerned that the bigger fish may eat them. My question is how old do they have to be before the danger of getting eaten is passed? The babies are very quick swimmers, which I suppose gives them some advantage. The big fish in the aquarium are very 'lively' today and seem to be poking around trying to get into tiny nooks and crannies, so I presume they know there are fry around and are looking for them? The 'babies' seem quite long, I am not convinced the big fish could get them down without a struggle, but I an worried for them. Any advice? (ps- we do want to try and keep these babies as my DD wants to set up a tank of her own, so she is waiting for some baby platys to put in it)
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