3 Fry---not Anymore :(

Yupp! I put him in the main tank with the other fish now, that seems okay right? I mean, he is 5 weeks old...
 
Oh gosh! That's happened to me before, only I had 50 babies in a large breeder net, and a platy jumped in! :blink: :crazy:
None were hurt, eaten, or killed! :good:

Anhow, I'm really sorry about what happened, but I'm sure the last one will be fine! Plus, you'll be getting more babies soon probably, so no worries! Swordtails are bad for eating babies! :angry:

-fry_forever!
 
): Breeder nets right?

Ugh, now I think I should get rid of my breeding box. :/ Is a breeder net, just an oversized net that hangs on your tank with fry inside?

@oldman : Whoa, the mom isn't eating 'em?
I noticed how the dad's more protective over them, like he won't eat them. And the mom is always somewhere near the top of the tank.
 
That female is not a molly fry eater. She does eat platy fry when given the chance but I raised her fry with her until she had her next drop and didn't notice that any went missing. I tried it because I remembered way back to my first livebearer experience as a child. A tank with 5 or 6 black mollies, the ones that were mostly P. shenops, in it would suddenly have 15 to 20 fry and most of them would grow big enough that I had to get rid of them elsewhere. I didn't figure that we had changed their nature all that much by the selective breeding done over the next 50 years so I tried it. I have no idea how a tank full of P. velifera or P. latipinna would do. Nor do I know how any of the other 20ish species with a common name of molly would do.
 

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