Unhatched or unfertilized fish egg - platy/guppy crossbreed

This is an egg that was the result of a guppy-platy crossbreed. We did not breed these fish on purpose, rather they bred without our knowledge and we caught the platy mommy delivering the hybrids in our community tank. This egg was one of the babies she gave birth to while in the birthing tank, and never developed into a baby fish. Other than this unhatched egg the Platy mommy gave birth to three other healthy hybrid babies.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Platy
• Guppy
• Fish Hybrid
• Crossbreed
• Fish Egg
• undeveloped
• unborn
• unhatched
• embryo

[Windhopper]

do you have any picsor videos of the babies yet? I have guppies and platys in my community so would be intrigued as to what a cross would look like

[pxiceman]

Unfortunately the few babies that remained died, some were deformed and the rest did not last past a couple of months. I want to put my platies and some guppies together in one tank again and see if I can get them to breed again.

[junnykunny]

my fries were fine but some died but the rest was ok wen they were atleast 6 or 7 weeks old the fry were a bit big and there colour was showing and plus it looked different it looked like a molllie coz it had a mollie tail and it had a guppy body but it was spotted and some more was different and i had about 25 fry i would of had 37 but 12 died and 4 of my hybrid fishes came out same as the fry guppy mother but it had a yellow body with only a few spot i hope u will be succesful in every matin

[pxiceman]

Thanks :D so far I've been very successful with breeding guppies, I have a whole bunch of them now in 3 different tanks :P

[etcordova43]

I have a tank with guppies and platy. The guppie is pregnant. I noticed a white ball floating at the top of the tank, so I thought she might be giving birth. I put her in the breeding net and a few minutes later there was another white ball floating at the top of the tank. I am not sure what it is. Do you have any idea? Is is a undeveloped egg?

[pxiceman]

Could be. Both guppies and platies are live bearers, so if they give birth to eggs then they are most certainly undeveloped eggs of some sort.

[SHSInTheHouse]

I thought that platies and guppies cannot interbreed. I think it was just platies with swordtails. Mollies and guppies, I dont think its possible.

[yorkiesrule2010]

@CamCool10 Yea but they have eggs inside

[CamCool10]

Guppies are platys give birth to live young...

[angelflight808]

So this is from a guppy? COOL!!!!

[maxanderin101]

5/5

[maxanderin101]

That is very interesting!!!!

[optimousmiky]

iv been succesful with breeding guppies 2

[qStii]

whats that song?

[NSantoro704]

what did they look like?