Cross Breeding Mollies?

[ricko10]

will mollies cross breed with any other fish?

 

[scorphonic]

I haven't a clue. I do have Mollys, plattys and swordtails in one tank and they only show interest in their own species so maybe not.

I have heard of a person crossing a molly and guppy to make a muppy but if thats true or not I'm unsure!!

 

[mcdanielnc89]

Mollies will breed with guppies...

 

[mlawson]

Most mollies in the shops are infact crosses anyway from a few species from the Poecilidae genus. Guppies of course, are also from the same genus. There have been successful crossess, but the hybrids are normally weaker and less tolerant to their parents, they will be unlikely to live for very long.

 

[kribensis12]

I have a golly, it is doing well, i am determined to take pics and show it to u guys but the pic wont load onto photobucket.

 

[mommyof2bettas]

Oooooh would love to see that!!! Try uploading it to Imageshck...I've heard some people use that.
BTW, sticking to the topic... mollies and guppies can crossbreed, although the fry are usually weak.

 

[helterskelter]

e-mail it to me plz krib helterskelter(at)livingfish.co.uk and I'll upload it and have a good look for you.

As for crossing mollys all the shop lines will cross as their basically the same fish. but in the wild their is around 5-7 molly species that may cross, but as ever i advise to not crossing different species, as the cultivated one's are lovely as they are.

 

[Xavier]

The guy in the hybrid forum did it. the fry looked amazing. he's going to start over again since all the muppy fry died. a male guppy female molly would be less of a strain on the mother

 

[h@g]

Hi,
I had a large community tank, it places outsize...
including: molly, platy, swordtail and guppy. I see
molly, platy and swordtail can cross breeding easily.
But with guppy i don't know . I think that
three of them are hard to cross breeding with guppy B)

 

[Miss Wiggle]

platys and swordies can't cross breed with mollies, they are a different genus and the biology of it doesn't work.

i know guppies are much smaller than mollies and it looks more impractical, but biology doesn't work like that!