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Platy
Xiphophorus maculatus
Family: Poeciliidae
📍 Mexico & Guatemala
Platies are cheerful, colourful livebearers available in a wide range of colour morphs. They are very beginner-friendly and tolerant of a broad range of water conditions, preferring slightly hard, alkaline water. Females give birth to live fry roughly every 28 days, so population management may be necessary.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – flake food, spirulina, brine shrimp, blanched vegetables
- lifespan
- 3–5 years
- max size
- 6 cm (2.4 in)
- tank size
- 10 gallons minimum
- temperament
- Peaceful
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.8–8.0
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 10–28 dGH
- temperature
- 64–82°F (18–28°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
72°F — 79°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Apr high)