Platy Varieties & Pics
Thanks Ray,
I originally figured they would each have their own scientific name, but I haven’t been able to find anything other than the maculatus name. Everything I found on the variatus name seemed to say swordtails and I didn’t think I had any of those, so I ignored that line of research entirely. All my platies are your basic average kind I guess. I don’t have any high-fin varieties or any with an elongated tail.
When I first starting looking, I figured my orange would be called something along the lines of “sunset”. That was the first thing that came to my mind. Orange, sunset; I don’t know, I thought it fit. But when I looked it up, the sunset ones I found didn’t look anything like her. They were a champagne color with a dark orange tail. This one is all orange, from her mouth to her fin. I’ll look up the name you gave me as soon as I get a chance and see if it fits.
That blue one, I forgot to mention, is also a balloonish shape. She’s not pregnant (at least I hope not, lol) and the tag on the tank when I bought her said balloon platy. I haven’t been able to find anything about balloon palties either so now I’m wondering if these platies have been crossbreed with balloon mollies. maybe? Or maybe its an inbreeding trait? I have no clue. After I got home last night, I studied her real closely to describe her better. She is so heavily covered with the dark blue color (which is definitely a blue and not black) that the pale color is only visible in a thin line on her underbelly, somewhat on her mouth/face area, and I think her tail as well. I still can’t define whether that pale color is more a pale blue or a whitish color.
I’m trying to take pics but they’re not cooporating very well and all I’m getting are blurry ones. I’ll do some more internet research with the info you gave and hopefully it’ll help. I’m usually very good at research but this has stumped me somewhat.
Thanks Melissa
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