Breeding Mollies In A Community Tank

[gulp]

I am thinking about trying to breed mollies and I was wondering whether it was possible to breed them in a community tank?

 

[theotheragentm]

Mollies breed period. What did you mean by whether it's possible? Were you referring to size of the tank and crowding? Give us some more information about your setup: size of the tank, what else is in it, what kind of filter you have.

 

[gulp]

I have got a 30 litre tank. 6 neon tetras, 3 scissor tails, 3 mollies and 1 platy

 

[helterskelter]

Mollies need very good quality water or they suffer plenty of problems unless you add salt, but a lot of community fish cant tolerate that.

How ever if u buy some mollies they will breed and produce fry very easily and well cared for, plenty of water chages and quality flake food and a little live fodd now and then will help.

3 scissor tails..... well they will love you.. they love to catch baby fish.

While the odd one may surive the 3 scissor tails will pollish most of the others off.

 

[gulp]

AH. so it might be worth getting na seperate tank to breed molllies in then.

 

[fishboy619]

sorry to say, its overstocked, 30 litres is about 7 gallons, about 20 inch of fish!
you really need to either take some fish back, or get a newer, bigger tank.
so answer to your question, no mollies shouldnt be allowed to breed in your tank

 

[gulp]

so how many fish could be kept in a 30 litre tank?

 

[theotheragentm]

The general rule is 1" of fish for every gallon. This number goes doen when you have larger first that are 6" or larger normally as they make more of a mess than a bunch of smaller fish. You can go over 1" per gallon, but you will most definitely have to do larger water changes and more often.