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brenna
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 169
Location: gentry arkansas
Favorite Fish:: mollies and platys
| | Subject: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 4:03 pm | |
| i have 2 male mollies, a black and a silver, chasing my pregnant black female....is this normal? i havent ever seen them chase my females before. usually my females can stay in the tank until they start to have the babies but being the only female left in the tank i am not sure if they are wanting to get a lil action from her or are trying to do harm to her... |
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Chuy
Corporal/Specialist
Posts: 64
Location: Las Vegas
Favorite Fish:: I like ALL fish! but here are some of my fav: swordtails, tiretrack eels, small plecos, fw puffers.
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 4:32 pm | |
| male mollies are always looking for action.... the dominant male will spend his day chasing the other male and female. a good rule is to keep three females per male to spread their agression or keep an all male tank. if the male mollies are relentless they can really stress the female mollies. |
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brenna
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 169
Location: gentry arkansas
Favorite Fish:: mollies and platys
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 4:49 pm | |
| i had more females, but when i moved into my new house only one female survived...not sure what happened but the other females got injured and died. |
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Ben
Moderator
Posts: 1881
Location: Sandston, Virginia
Favorite Fish:: Venustus and Catfish
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 5:06 pm | |
| In my opinion I would move the female to another tank until you can get some more females to go with the males. I would think that will keep some stress off the female. **********USAfishbox.com*************  |
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Chuy
Corporal/Specialist
Posts: 64
Location: Las Vegas
Favorite Fish:: I like ALL fish! but here are some of my fav: swordtails, tiretrack eels, small plecos, fw puffers.
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 5:09 pm | |
| Moving can be stressful on you (moving a fish tank is a pain in the your kno wat)
and the fish. Like Ben said you should add a few more females to the tank, if its big enouf, to keep all the fish happy. |
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brenna
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 169
Location: gentry arkansas
Favorite Fish:: mollies and platys
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 5:14 pm | |
| its a 10 gallon and i only have a few fish in it...im going to the pet store tomorrow so maybe i will find some nice looking ones. i went a few weeks ago and found areally pretty marble one..it has the colors and marking of a marble colored molly but has an orangy yellow tail....he is absolutley beautiful...i couldnt pass him up even tho he is a hybrid. i thought he was a female till i got him home and got to looking at him |
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Keelo
Major
Posts: 899
Location: Springdale, AR
Favorite Fish:: Mollys, BN plec, and Thoracochromis brauschi
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 5:24 pm | |
| Brenna i have a bunch of molly and platys for sale if you want to come into springdale they are a dollar a fish they are still kinda small maybe like 1/2 inch. I have some neon blue platys as well that are 3 dollars but they arnt showing color yet just starting to! PM me if you want to meet up for some. |
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brenna
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 169
Location: gentry arkansas
Favorite Fish:: mollies and platys
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 5:26 pm | |
| awesome keelo thanks, i would love to come check them out when i get off work tomorrow or maybe saturday
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Keelo
Major
Posts: 899
Location: Springdale, AR
Favorite Fish:: Mollys, BN plec, and Thoracochromis brauschi
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 5:29 pm | |
| alright i'll PM you my number so that you can give me a call or text anytime you want. |
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brenna
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 169
Location: gentry arkansas
Favorite Fish:: mollies and platys
| | Subject: Re: Male mollies chasing my female molly 3/31/2011, 6:11 pm | |
| going to set up my smaller fish bowl for the female...they are just terrorizing her and i dont want her to die |
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