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Darn those Mollies!
By: Jennifer Date: September 19, 2014, 4:59 pm
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I don't really need help with this, but I thought a birth
announcement was due. I have a 20 gal tank in my office where I
keep a few different domestic species of mollies, just for show.
I usually don't mix my colors in my breeding tanks. And ...
the little stinkers did what mollies do, dropped fry.
I'm not exactly sure what will come out of there because I had
silver and black mollies in there. The mother that dropped was
a silver, and quite a few of her babies do look snow white but
there are some very dark black ones and some ... very dark
colored ones that I don't believe will be all black. Will be
interesting to see who makes it, who doesn't and what colors I
actually get. They're too small for my poopy camera to get
decent pics or video of, but I'll try when they get a little
bigger. So far, they're growing like weeds.
#Post#: 38--------------------------------------------------
Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: kgtropicals Date: September 19, 2014, 5:21 pm
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But that's what's cool about mollies, they're like Chia pets,
just add water and watch them grow:-)
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Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: Jennifer Date: September 19, 2014, 5:32 pm
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True that! It's a trick if you can keep them from breeding lol!
#Post#: 57--------------------------------------------------
Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: Petsotics Date: September 19, 2014, 9:08 pm
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Congrats!!! ;) ;) Breeding is fun, but Mollies, Platies, and
Swordtails, in my opinion are the most fun. ;)
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Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: KGTropicals Lisa Date: September 21, 2014, 10:52 pm
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I had several tanks of mollies for sale and those little buggars
would drop babies every other day it seemed like. so I started a
55 gallon grow out tank with a bunch of sea shells in it. I
would scoop the babies out and put them in the 55. The shells
served as great hiding spots for the smaller guys:) once I grew
them out, they were for sale. Did the same with my guppies
#Post#: 287--------------------------------------------------
Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: Jennifer Date: September 21, 2014, 11:00 pm
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Yea, the livebearers are like rabbits or, well, worse sometimes.
That's why I don't worry on my fry too much. I know I'll
always have more. And they are exceptionally creative little
hiders. I have two little guys that .. I think have been hiding
under my moss ball since birth ... they swam out for the first
time a few hours ago.
#Post#: 362--------------------------------------------------
Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: probn Date: September 22, 2014, 9:49 pm
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My mollies died before I could see them breeding don't know
what's wrong with my water guppies and swordtails have also
died although I had them for about 1 year and nothing had
happened to them until recently
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Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: Jennifer Date: September 23, 2014, 11:33 am
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I've found that water harness has a lot to do with the heath of
most livebearers. They tend to like water very similar to the
African cichlids. Higher pH and higher carbonate hardness.
Some people I know add the cichlid salts you can by to give
their molly/guppy tanks that water harness. I usually have some
oyster shells in the filter which dissolve slowly and add the
carbonate harness. Getting good quality fish to start with
helps also.
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Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: probn Date: September 23, 2014, 8:00 pm
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I didn'd know about that
thanks for the information jennifer
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Re: Darn those Mollies!
By: Jennifer Date: September 24, 2014, 12:30 pm
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No problem!
You can find a ton more info at the American Livebearer
Association site. I'd love to say I'm just that smart and know
so much about livebearers, but I pick up most of the hints and
tricks I know from the Livebearer Association. They have some
amazing people that post to the forums over there. I've learned
a lot of things that make keeping livebearers a lot more fun and
productive.
HTML http://www.livebearers.org/
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