Last night I went to move my big rock to start a good old tank clean... and out from underneath swam 4 baby sunset platy's!!!
One is about half the size of my little fingernail, immediately called Nemo, and the other 3 were really no more than dots with tails.
After emergency texting my fishy guardian angel Jenny, I put the rock back and watched the babies till the i-light went into moonlight mode.
This morning, there was no trace of any babies, but 2 of my Oto's have doubled in size over night!!!
They looked guilty so maybe they have eaten them as I disturbed the babies last night
I am secretly hoping that when I get home tonight and the i-light is in full daylight mode that I may still see Nemo swimming about in his secret place, but I am not overly hopeful!
It was really a night of totally unexpected excitement, and whilst it lasted it was lovely!
So fingers crossed that Nemo was too big to be eaten by the Oto's. I am hoping he was too big to be swallowed......
I am just so excited as I never knew the world of fish keeping held so much drama.......
You need to get yourself I fish breeding isolation tank (floats in main tank quite cheap) Or an islotation Net that clips to the side of the tank to protect the young, a lot of live bearers fish will eat their own young 
never mind your other fish. I will need to post you some pictures of my tanks (nothing spectalour but i have been happy with them). As for drama the first time i noticed one of my marbled mollies had given birth I only managed to spot 6 babies but i managed to secure them safely in the isolation net. The other female gave birth 3 weeks later but i had obtained the birthing chamber which collected 32 baby fish and safely kept them away from the other predators 
(my memory sucks).
23/01/08 @ 10:25