What do I do with all these little guys?

[Arok2092]

Hi! Yesterday I bought a couple of Mollies and put them in a quarantine tank. Turns out one was pregnant and started giving birth today! I didn't know what to do so I put her in my 10 gallon tetra tank for now because there is a big natural plant there and I wanted the babies to have a fighting chance at surviving. I think the Molly has finally stopped giving birth and I'm counting around 9 fry! This is great but I don't know what to do with them!

They seem rather large. I say large because I rescued my buddy Phillip when he was a fry and he was so tiny I couldn't tell what he was when I first got him (he is a Molly though) and these guys are way bigger than Phillip was when he was a fry.

I plan on trying to keep them until they're bigger and might even fully keep one. But if the others reach maturity, what should I do with them? I don't have the room to keep them and also how should I feed them?

Here are some pics of a few who I could easily get a good shot of:

 

[flitabout]

Well you can raise them and talk to your pet store and see if they will take them. It could be worse I got 2 platys and 2 swords and 3 dropped fry within 3 days of each other. My poor tank is positively alive with babies! And no the adult aren't even slightly interested in eating them. I think I now have roughly 50 fry in a 37 gallon. There might be more.

 

[Fishforlife]

My fry were that big too when my black Molly give birth. I kept all the babe in a 5.5 gallon , feed them frozen bbs or frozen blood worm (crush) and there was 50 fry. They all survive to adult hood. I kept them all and put In the community tank.

 

[Canary bird]

Yeah mine were that size too, and huge now at 2 months old, and she had 30 and that was her first brood , her second lot are 2weeks old and another 30 of them ... But they are huge fry in comparison to platy and guppy .. I also have them needing bigger tanks now !