Sunset Variatus Platy

Popular breeds from the original strains of the southern platy are the half moon the coral the comet the salt and pepper the moon the blue mirror and the bleeding heart platy. These two breeds of the southern platy and the variegated platy. There will be little to no confrontation.

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From these two breeds come more than a dozen other types of platy.

Sunset variatus platy. In other words a sunset variatus. Sunset variatus regular xiphophorus variatus. They do not have any issues being a tank with other fish.

The variatus will prefer a densely planted tank and can be kept in pairs or groups. The variatus also known as the variatus platy or the variable platyfish is a species of freshwater fish in the poecilidae family. The sunset variatus are one of the farm raised color morphs of the wild type originally found in southern mexico.

Popular varieties from the variable platy are redtail yellowtail sunset rainbow hawaii and the marigold platy. They usually live for 3 5 years although some live longer and some that die sooner. Variatus platies much like guppies are highly variable.

Sunset variatus regular xiphophorus variatus the variatus also known as the variatus platy or the variable platyfish is a species of freshwater fish in the poeciliidae family. From that original strain we ve developed several color strains of variatus. Platies are relatively hardy and usually survive the transition from the store setup to the home aquarium.

Sunset variatus platy xiphophorus variatus. Their bodies are short and fat and have a notable tail fin which is both wide and strong. One cull that showed up fairly consistently in our redtail black variatus line was a fish without a black tuxedo or black body.

The sunset variatus has a yellow and red body color. We spend a lot of time culling off colored fish. Parrot platies xiphophorus variatus platy fish are relatively short lived.

Sexing edit edit source females have a fan shaped anal fin and males have a gonopodium these fish breed readily in the tank and produce 50 100 fry every four to six weeks. The fish average a length of 1 5 to 2 5 inches 4 6 cm where the males are smaller than the females. The variatus is generally more elongated than its close cousin the platy.

One of these was sunset variatus. These are very friendly fish to keep in the aquarium. They do not have any issues being a tank with other fish.

Additional names variatus platy sunset platy variegated platy variable platyfish additional scientific names platypoecilus maculatus dorsalis platypoecilus variatus platypoecilus variegatus. These are very friendly fish to keep in the aquarium.