baby black mollies

[evman333]

i went to to the pet store yesterday to buy a black molly to help cycle my tank, after watching a movie i noticed alot of lil mollies swimming around. I seperated them from the mom and put them in a seperate tank.

Any advice for raising them would be greatly appreciated

 

[heavenly]

Just to make the flakes small so they will be easy to eat. It is a good thing that you separated the babies. The mom will eat them if she is full grown. She doesn't do it intentionally i don't think. Baby mollies are easy to take care of and shouldn't be much trouble. Good luck and congratulations. 8)

 

[evman333]

thank you very much

 

[heavenly]

you are very welcome!

 

[kansaschick08]

is this mollie birthing season? how many babies do you have?

 

[Menagerie]

Be careful to not overfeed. They should be fed a few times a day, rather than once a day. From my experience with cichlid fry, they will eat themselves silly and this may lead to bloating and blockage. Aside from flakes, try baby brine shrimp.

 

[heavenly]

I don't have any right now. they can have babies every three weeks. even if you don't have a male. once she is fertilized she recives four to five pockets of sperm that are good up to a year. she can use them when ever she feels lik it.

 

[evman333]

i have about 15-20 babies

 

[TankGirl]

This is relatively common for them to drop fry following the stress of being netted and moved to a new tank (certainly has happened to me!). If you are cycling a tank with the mother then it was best to remove the fry - they won't handle that too well. I never gave mine any special attention, in that I did not separate the fry from the rest of the tank inhabitants and did not feed them any differently than the rest of the fish, and I still have more black mollies than I know what to do with!

 

[William]

I have between 15 and 20 myself, from 2 different batches from the same mother.

I never did anything special, other than moved them into their own tank. Fed them once a day with Omega one, and filtered the tank with a Penguin Mini without a biowheel.

They thrive.


and on a sidenote, molly mommas will drop a fry, and turn right around and eat it. Sometimes its done to recover so much energy lost igving birth, Thats what I think anyways.

 

[heavenly]

You got lucky. they can have more than eighty babies. I hope they are doing well. I hope everything is going okay with them and that the mohther isn't eating too many. Keep us posted. Thanks!