One of the many options for keeping the fry safe from adults is to keep a breeding box in your fish tank.
Marble molly fry.
Short finned molly common molly sailfin molly black molly.
Today we processed the two giant marble liberty molly vats.
I separated the phenotypes and selected the three best males and 10 females as breeders.
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Marina molly fry i had 35 fry black mollies 20 died now i have 15 fries left.
And you will have to feed them bloodworms microworms and stuff like that.
The molly fish is a live bearer which means that its eggs are internally gestated until highly developed fry are born.
The main reason why we preach that bigger aquariums are better is because they are easier to care for.
Some of the flake food goes to the bottom and my fry eat it happily.
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The remaining f1s and various f2s f3s and back crosses were set up aside to grow up.
If you plan on raising the molly babies to adulthood then you will have to choose from a couple of options to prevent the female molly from eating the newly born fry.
Because it s doesn t scatter its eggs there is usually a high survival rate among its fry as long as the tank doesn t have any large predators.
The balance of this blog is about the giant marble molly although we also are working on the giant liberty molly.
I feed my fry 2 times a day a little bit.
This variety is bred in lots of different colors and patterns.
It s most distinctive feature is the large dorsal fin which is taller and runs from behind the head to just before the caudal fin.
The fish can pretty easily adapt to the smaller living space but the water quality is the factor that suffers.
This is a video of the fry swarming the top of the tank waiting for food.
Aquarium size setup.
However recent studies show that there is a symbiotic relationship between the mother and the developing fry with an exchange of fluids the total extent if which is still under investigation.
But soon they will get bigger and you will have to get a bigger tank.
Salt n pepper mollies at 8 weeks.
It s pretty funny how they re almost climbing all over each other trying to stay.