Do anyone know how many babies can a platy fish give?

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Yesterday I found 9 newborn platy in my 15 gallon tank. I am 75% sure I got them all. Now today after work I was looking at the tank and notice more. I managed to move 3 into the baby platy tank and noticed 3 more in the 15 gallon tank (currently 15 babies that I know of). Is it possible that my platy gave birth two times? and how many babies can a platy have?
So far the mom, and 2 other platy are just swimming around ignoring the babies. You said she can have 40-80 babies... do you mean all in one go? or do it last for a week or something.
 
Whats happens is that she had some and then waited a little while for the others to be born. She either thought they weren't ready to be born or that it wasn't safe. Some fish have them all in a row and some drop them at different times. Platies can have up to 50 or more but the typical amount is 10-20.

Good Luck!!!!
 
You need to get all of em and put em in another tank, or the fish will eat them even the mom! the mom can have about 40-80 babies.
 
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