How Come My Livebearers Won't Have Any Babies!?

[fry_forever!]

Although it is technically possible for a guppy / molly hybrid, I have kept those 2 fish together for many years and have never had it happen. The only likely way that it might happen would be if you only had one gender of each fish and no suitable mates otherwise for either fish. Even then it is not at all common. As far as a chance cross between the two, I would not worry about it.

Yes, oldman47 is right. I've never had the problem, though my guppy did try to mate with my molly once, and succeeded. That was only because he got confused, and he never did it again after.

P.S. I still have ich in my tank..... we'll see the outcome though.... =(
The temp is still up, and I put some more aquarium salt in, so we'll see what happens....
(Hopefully good news! )

 

[Kris T]

I'll be getting my first fish in a few weeks, and I have the opposite problem from you! I'm worried I'll have more babies than I can handle! There are a couple of mollies and platys I like, but what would I do if I end up with hundreds of the little things?? Fry,forever, give me some tips on how to make them *not* breed

 

[fish48]

you can't stop them breeding keep all males only /or put a small cicklid in with them like a kribenses they will eat the fry .

 

[pippoodle]

if your tank is big enough - congo tetras or dwarf gouramis also love munching fry

 

[Platygirl11]

I read it.....
Wow!
That's so cool, for lack of a better word.
If only the pics worked! I'm so curious!

 

[Kris T]

if your tank is big enough - congo tetras or dwarf gouramis also love munching fry

my tank is 200 litres, so it should be okay...If you have a group of congos and perhaps another group of something similar, is it fair to assume you'd never end up with lots of baby fish you have nowhere to put? how about if it's a planted tank with hiding spots?

 

[fry_forever!]

if your tank is big enough - congo tetras or dwarf gouramis also love munching fry

my tank is 200 litres, so it should be okay...If you have a group of congos and perhaps another group of something similar, is it fair to assume you'd never end up with lots of baby fish you have nowhere to put? how about if it's a planted tank with hiding spots?

Like someone else said, you could keep all males. They are the prettiest, (Guppies are, at least.) and they won't reproduce like bunnies. You COULD have females, if you wanted a couple of babies, but really, instead of getting fish that would eat the babies, you could just leave the babies with the adults, and which ever ones survived -- well, they'd survive!

I used to get quite a few babies, and once ended up with over 30 growing babies in my 20 gallon tank, but it's not like that anymore....
It's so weird, though!
It seems that when I started out fishkeeping, I had a whole bunch of luck, and now I am down on my luck!
Same happened with my friend with her guppies! She used to get babies almost every week, and now she has such a bad case of ich that her fish only have babies once every 2 months or so!

AND WE CAN'T GET RID OF THE ICH, NO MATTER WHAT WE DO!!!!!
Please help!!!

 

[OldMan47]

I have a female molly that normally lives in a 120 gallon community tank with lots of different fish. I had her in that tank for over 6 months with no fry survivors at all. When I put her into a 10 gallon birth tank with almost no cover, she delivered 30 survivors on her first try a couple of weeks later. This is her with her fry. I left her in the fry tank until she delivered her next drop of about 20 fry without ever seeing a male in between.

Predation has kept that community tank at zero survivors since I put her back into the tank with the platies, gold barbs, rasboras and the rest of Noah's ark. I don't think population will become an issue in a typical community tank.

 

[fry_forever!]

Cool!

 

[ChiNA MaN]

None of them look pregnant to me besides the last one and its only slightly looking pregnant.

 

[fry_forever!]

None of them look pregnant to me besides the last one and its only slightly looking pregnant.

Ok.