Recent content by Ruth1969

:nod: Thank's guys for all your advice. I have today bought a fry trap and managed unbelievably to catch 26!!! There are still a few left in the main tank, but I'll have to leave them. At least this way I know I can feed them directy so the have a better chance of growing. Also good news is that...

Ooh now I feel guilty! It's not that I'm not prepared to look after the fry as in I don't care, I'm literally "not prepared"! :0( Amy's idea of seeing if I could get stuff on eBay sounds like a plan? As fir feeding I put the normal size flakes in at the side of the tank the adults always cone up...

Indeed it does. Fascinating stuff it really is. However, today I have counted 14 fry and I cant afford for this to keep happening, although a friend has suggested that the shop I bought the adults from would take fry off me. I will see how things go, but if mum starts to look a podgy again I'll...

Really? Wow! Nature is a weird & wonderful thing. Well, I've come down this morning and it doesn't appear that we've lost any fry. So, we shall see what the next few bring. Ps thanks for moving my duplcate post, I was on my iPhone and hit "post" too early. Thanks for all your advice guys, very...

My god! I think my male think he's Hugh Hephner! He's only been back on the tank 5 minutes, and already, his fin is fully up and proud, and he's following Mum around like a dog on heat!! Here we go again. Glad I'm not a female Mollie, I'd never keep up, poor thing! Lol ;0)

Thank you. That was my initial thought, but I suppose the maternal part of me wanted to give them a chance. It may still happen that a few survive, as with our one survivor who arrived within hours of us first getting the mollies. As you say, it's down to nature and survival of the fittest I...

Hi, I'm new to this forum, not knew to keeping fish, but this is our first live birth. Yesterday, I decided that I thought my female dalmation Mollie was ready to drop, so rushed out to get more plants. Checked on her this morning, no change, so off I went to work. Came home and thought, she...