BABIES

my black molly is having babies. So far only two. How many will she have and is it normal for the babies to swim and then float to bottom of bowl? Any info would be very helpful this is my first time with babies

ok so now I have five babies. Kinda freaking out since I'm not sure what to do

I am not a molly expert. But I would think everything is ok just let the molly do here thing. Hopefully someone soon with knowlege can help you soon!

thanks. I think only think one is going to die

Welcome to fishmotherhood brenna, mollies like any other live bearers is just subject to size and diet, a females that measures 1.5 inches could give birth to as many as 30 fry depending on the diet, the down side is they sometimes can be canibalistic, thats why they recomend the floating boxes with the v groove, this allows the fry to escape and not be harmed and later to be transfered to a separate tank unless yours is heavy with plants then some of the fry will have a chance ,but I would recomend a 2.5 or a 5 gal till they get some size to them and you can re-introduce them to the tank, but you know this might be your first batch don't worry you will have many more, good luck, ps, have some food crushed into dust so you can feed the fry, they will be fine.

Thanks Sam

thanks sam. So far only six.i have them in I think is a one galon and I'm just watching to make sure she doesn't eat them. Should I feed them now or wait

just wait till tomorow to try to feed the fry, but just put a pinch of food later this evening for the mom, you dont want her hungry, remember if she gets fed she wont see the fry as food, good luck

thanks. She started having nothing but eggs and is skinny so we I moved her back to the big tank

small/baby frozen brine shrimp is what i feed my try with a mixture of flakes i used to do just flakes but i started brine shrimp too and they seemed to grow faster and be healthier. I jsut cut a super small bit off the frozen brime shrimp chunk and put it in some water the thaw only takes about 1 min then just dump it in they love it.

you dont really have to do much or the mom and the fry let them do what they are going to do some will die from birth and thats jsut part of it but they can have up to 100 babies sometimes! it usually averages at about 30 though.

Mollys like most livebearers also store sperm so expect having babies every 3-4 weeks

I didn't even know she was ready to have them yet. I put her in the small tank and the next thing I know, here they come

lol you will learn what to look for the two biggest things is they get really really fat :)

I hope I learn I have 3 females for sure. She was fat but didn't look like she would pop soon. I thougt maybe when I moved her it caused her to have them

none of the babies made it through the nigt. I think she had them early cuz she only had six and only four were alive and she had a bunch of eggs

thats usually what happens srry for hearing that but dnt worry cuz after a while ur gonna want them to stop i have over 100 dalmation molly fry with only two females

I have a black molly and a silver molly. The silver one looks like she is pregnant so hopefully before long might have some more is there anything special I should do once she starts having them. Should I put rocks or an air stone in the birthing tank?

I just shove mine in a breeder box let the pop out then toss the female back in with the herd, I don't move them in another tank. It stresses them out.

well once i knw shes pregnant i put a tank divider and then let her swim to the other side

hopefully the next batch will live. It would be fun to watch them grow up

sometimes when you put them in another tank or even the breeder box if you put them in to early they stress and "abort" the babies where they will come out as eggs pretty much.

But we all loose some and gain some so jsut hope for the best on the next go :)

she is already looking fat again hopefully she will give it a few weeks before she tries again tho. How big should they be when they are born

huge lol, mine will pop all the time but ive got tired of keeping the females int he breeder box, now i snatch the fry and put them in the box quick and painless lol

when mine had the fry you could tell she was pregnant but she wasn't huge. And the baby fry were so tiny. Their eyes were bigger than their whole bodies. Lol

yeah thats how they will be ... but they will look big like they swallowed a pingpong ball or something :)

now my female silver molly is pregnant. Maybe this batch will live