Red Mickey Mouse Platy

Common Name
Red Mickey Mouse Platy
Other Common Names
Red Crescent Platy
Scientific Name
Xiphophorus maculatus species
Family
Poeciliidae
Community
General
Class
Platy
Temperature
78 ºF
Swimming Range
Top-Middle-Bottom
Adult Length
2-2 1/2 inches
Feeding Habits
Fresh spinach, zucchini, peas and lettuce. Live fish, blood worms, glass worms, brine shrimp and tubifex worms. Frozen plankton, vegetable diet, daphnia, beef heart, brine shrimp, glass worms and blood worms. Freeze dried and flake foods also accepted.
Compatibility
An active, peaceful and schooling fish that mixes well with other community fish.
Habitat
Mexico: Moderately decorated with rocks, live plants and driftwood.
Breeding
The male has a gonopodium (underneath the body of the male is one fin that hangs down and what looks like a fin folded up against his body, this is the gonopodium. Where as the female has two fins that hang straight down). They are livebearers that can have between 20-40 live babies at a time. The fry should be removed as soon as possible as the parents are cannibalistic.
Additional Comments
There have been many different color variation developed by commercial breeders throughout the years.