I Think I Bought A Pregnant Mollie

[matchstickman47]

they were kept in a tank with males in the shop, quite possible they are both pregnant one has kinda gone squarish the other just look pot bellied

 

[lil-x-me...x]

any chance you can post a pic?
are they both normal mollies, one isnt a balloon mollie or anything is it?
the way to tell if they are pregnant is that they will have a black spot near there anal fin that is called a gravid spot heres an example:


http/www.aquariumhobbyist.com/guppies/gravid.jpg

hope this helped.

 

[OldMan47]

Lil ME, that works OK for a guppy but most mollies are not transparent, they have color in their skin. That means that the gravid spot cannot be seen. You need to judge a molly by her size and how well squared off she is. A molly can look well along in terms of size merely by being well fed so it really comes down to shape. If you can get a picture up, I can try to compare it to the shapes I have on file for different stages of fry development and may be able to give a half decent estimate.

 

[ldavidson84]

i bought 2 black mollies yesterday, one looked rather fat, i came down to around 10 babies this morning.

 

[matchstickman47]

cool how big are the fry when they first come out

i think they are pregers cause one is getting squarish more and more and they came from a tank with like 20 males in it , they are black mollies thier anuses are white and they have small whit dots in places

 

[HCpetraitis]

Congratz! There is a chance the other one is pregnant too.

 

[OldMan47]

Newborn molly fry look the size of these newborns. Picture taken at less than 8 hours old. (They were there when I got home from work that day)

 

[HCpetraitis]

Wow those are tiny babies.

 

[matchstickman47]

i hink they have about a week left i will keep posted if i need a hand or a brain!

i want to seperate because i have some merciless fish in my tank so i would realy like if i put her in a fry trap so i can raise em in it, what would i feed the fry?

 

[OldMan47]

You feed the molly fry crushed adult flake. I go heavy on the vegetable flake with mollies because it seems to help them grow healthier than a plain flake does. Mollies need some form of veggies in their diet and mine get crushed spirulina flake more than anything else.

 

[matchstickman47]

wow thank you have been the most help! shes definatly squaring off the back end is nearly at th same level as the front