How Is My Fry Getting On?!

[JohnRossDele]

My Back Molly gave birth on the early mornings of the 28th of march and there are 12 fry at this point.

they all are about 1.2 cms long and have gat a goldyish tinge kinda color on der bellies

they all look awesome!! there is 1 of them half the size of the rest... the runt as you would call it! is this common to have a small one in the batch

they swim in a joyful manner and are really active

they eat: liquifry no.2, crushed flakes, bloodworms & the remains of the other fry which died at birth

i dnt use a filter just to be sure to be sure that they dont get sucked up the intake, instead i clean the water out 25-40% regularly

how long will it take for the fry to grow to adult size according to what i do with them

they look like balloon mollies but the mum or dad dnt be a balloon coz the store dont sell 'em

ill post a pic if i can..... dont be getin ur hopes up though!!

 

[OldMan47]

The fry that big no longer need the fry food. If you have any vegetable based food, that would be a good thing to supplement the crushed flake food. Mollies do not need a lot of animal protein n their diet so take it easy with the frozen, once live, foods. One or two feedings of that a week is plenty for molly fry. Mine don't get much besides flake and spirulina algae flake. The frozen daphnia, bloodworms and brine shrimp go to different fish, not mollies.

At 18 days old mine looked like this. 1.2 cm seems about right to me for 2 weeks. I don't happen to have a picture at 2 weeks.

By 6 weeks they looked like this compared to the adult female.

 

[JohnRossDele]

The fry that big no longer need the fry food. If you have any vegetable based food, that would be a good thing to supplement the crushed flake food. Mollies do not need a lot of animal protein n their diet so take it easy with the frozen, once live, foods. One or two feedings of that a week is plenty for molly fry. Mine don't get much besides flake and spirulina algae flake. The frozen daphnia, bloodworms and brine shrimp go to different fish, not mollies.

At 18 days old mine looked like this. 1.2 cm seems about right to me for 2 weeks. I don't happen to have a picture at 2 weeks.

By 6 weeks they looked like this compared to the adult female.

They are pretty big for their age, i only feed them the bloodworms coz there is some left over since the siamese fighters breeding! i exchanged them for the mollies at my PS.

 

[HCpetraitis]

I would get a new type of food and take out the dead babies. The babies might have died from a disease and to have the babies eating them isn't healthy.