help, im swamped with babies

[Fishcrazykids]

i have a 60 gal community tank. bought a couple of each,2 swordtails, 2 black mollies, 2 dalmation mollies, 2 platties, & a small school of about 10 zebra danios.
my daughter asks about baby fish & i figure ill check if i have any females & males(cause i didnt bother when i bougth them, dont know where my brain was) turns out i have lots of pairs. so then i find a couple of fat fish. i run to the store & get 2 breeder nets. Now they are full of babies & i still have pregnant fish. what do i do?
Wednesday in net #1 my swordtail had 14 babies. i threw her back out. Then today Dalmation molly has 30 babies in net #2. i guess mollies are color blind. because now my other dalmation molly is about to hatch any day. the male was one of my black mollies. and i think some of the zebras are pregnant too. OH MY. pretty soon the entire top of my tank will be covered with nets. how long until i can move them? and how big of a tank do i need for all these babies? Can i put them all in one tank?

 

[GSD]

were abouts do you live ill take some
Or msbe your lfs will take them or get a 10 gal for them

 

[laboul]

Those are all good options. I wish I had that size tank! WOW. I LOVE fry. To me they are more fun than the adult fish. I am sure you can find homes for some.

If these options don't work and you can't afford another tank (you will still need to find a home for them then, because you are increasing their chances of survival), consider releasing them from the breeding nets. This may not make me a popular person, but if all those fry live and you cannot find homes you will need tanks all over your house. Some people really love fry, you could advertise in the buy and sell section when they get a few weeks older. Of course if they are released, some will get eaten and others will not survive, but that's nature. Fish produce that many offspring for a reason. If they are quite tiny and you don't want them sucked up into the filter intake, you can wrap some pantyhose around it and secure it with string. They know to hide in gravel and plants and molly fry are very good foragers. Many will make it on leftover food in your tank, especially if you grind it very small when you feed the adults.

I would also love more fry, but I don't have an extra tank

 

[newfishies]

well, the zebra danios are egg layers, so they won't need a breeding trap!

depending on how much you want to keep ALL of the fry, you could let the birthing take place in the tank, provide lots of gound cover and hiding spots for the smartest and strongest fry to survive.

you could set up a separate fry tank for them until they are too big to fit in the adults mouths...

 

[Germyzero]

Where do you live?