Ack! Babies!

[starrynightxxi]

-lol- purchasing female livebearers tends to be buy 1 get 100 free.

not sure on the size of those babies, but the danios and the bettas will also be likely to go after small fry, and won't the mollies try to as well, guys? Not sure on that... You can definately leave the fry in the tank and let them survive from day one on their own. I did that when i kept mollies as a kid, but i still ended up with quite a few.

If you want to be sure you won't get babies, as soon as you can determine the genders of the fry, seperate them, then pick a few of one sex or the other and keep those rather than the females you bought.

As for getting rid of them... try the buy/sell/swap forum, and keep looking into other pet shops. you may get lucky. Or you can buy a predatory fish and feed it live foods for a little while. Unfortunately livebearers breed so readily that there's a definate glut in the market and it's hard to get rid of them.

 

[afishdude]

http/www.loaches.com/species-index/photo...pg/image_medium

 

[Musho3210]

there we go, thats what im talking about lol....

Thanks, you may go on saying remove those loaches

 

[GobyMaster]

http/www.loaches.com/species-index/photo...pg/image_medium

Holy crap, that's a fat fish!!
You'd need a huge tank for that!!
Cheers,
GobyMaster

 

[afishdude]

just a 75g....

 

[GobyMaster]

Well, how big is that fish?
It looks at least a foot long and six inches tall, that's a big fish, or does it just look big in the picture?
Cheers,
GobyMaster

 

[starrynightxxi]

Well, how big is that fish?
It looks at least a foot long and six inches tall, that's a big fish, or does it just look big in the picture?
Cheers,
GobyMaster

if you go to the website, the title says the fish is 11.5"

http/www.loaches.com/species-index/photo...hus_07.jpg/view

 

[afishdude]

still a 75 is like 4.5 feet long and 2.5 feet wide. thats plenty if you had that loach.

 

[Musho3210]

oh... nvm i dont have a pic of a 16" loach, 11.5 inch loach beat the previous record of 10". If i dont get a pic then how will i say that they can get to 16"?

 

[morgan]

I have read that Clown Loaches can live for 40 years given really good conditions. I let my Molly fry take their chances in the tank and I still have lots of fry survive. I was caught out the same way, I innocently bought two females thinking that would avoid babies. I didn't know to research when I started fishkeeping and was advised by a friend. Hope you find somewhere to take your fry. I take mine to lfs.