While caring for a handful of platies, I was honored with the job of fostering many platy babies. Wow do those fish proliferate!

Breeding / Mating / Reproduction : They are livebearers which means that the babies can swim immediately after birth. Usually, not much effort is required to get them to breed. If you have a male and a female, chances are they will breed. Click to visit this external linkFishlore.com

This is an image of a single platy baby shortly after s/he was large enough to be seen easily. Notice the little eyes and tiny overall size – that’s a teaspoon measure laying off the edge of a music CD!