Something weird happened all fish keepers read this?

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well i have a fish tank with some guppies and platies and i noticed one of platies was getting plump so i went and got a breeder trap just incase. add soon enough my platy gave birth but out came a blue fish with a black and yellow tail like a guppy has but had the body of a platy. i thought this was weird, really weird anyone know how this happened
well kouneli actually he is just under 1 inch now
 
Like guppies platies come in a variety of colours and patterns and you never know what to expect but it sounds like you got lucky with this one. also I had gorgeous colours on my babies to have then latter fade away with development.
 
Huh, . . . It's really weird that the fry is showing colors that's odd, normally they don't show colors until like a few weeks after birth.

As far as the colors the platy COULD have mated with guppy, but it is highly unlikley. The colors from the platy baby (fry) could have been a "carry-over gene" meaning that the colors came from the Platy that gave birth 's parents.
Platy parents = gene j
Your platy not given gene i
new baby platy was given the gene from your platy's parents. j

Hope this helps! :)
Here's a fish blog it may help you out! Platies are the fish of the week! :)
http://www.simplyfish.today.com
 
Platies come in a wide variety of colors...but what amazes me is that the "baby platy" is already showing colors.
 
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