Keeping Mollie Fry

[alysonpeaches]

I have a pair of platinum lyre tail mollies in my community tank, which is well planted, and the female is such a beautiful fish, I really want more like her. Unfortunately I have only got two fry to survive to the juvenile stage. I have had her 10 months so we have had a few drops. I dont know if its another fish or the male who is eating the fry or they arent surviving. Other tank inhabitants are a pair of adult platys, several juvenile platy and fry (they seem to survive), guppies and fry, a pair of juvenile bristlenoses and several different corys. As far as I am aware none of those fish are particularly predatory. I have ordered more floating plants as they other ones got eaten. I have also bought some high protein small granules to try on the fry. My pH is around 7.6 and my water is moderately hard. The two that I have had survive I caught along with several others and kept them for a while in a fry saver net, and fed them more frequently and I am guessing this is the way forward. But now the plants are growing quickly its hard to see the fry let alone catch them!

I have read old man's post on mollies and its very good. Is there anything else I can do to help the mollie fry survive?

 

[MagicFish]

If you have a net designed for keeping fry in, then they will be much more likely to survive and will be easier to keep an eye on, which is probaby all you need to do. And if the pants are growing too big just take a few out or cut them if you'd rather.

 

[the_lock_man]

Having lots of plants for the fry to hide in is best.

 

[Paradise3]

I always leave the babies with the adults. Then again I do selectively breed mine so the females are separate to the males... I've found that lot's of hiding places in the tank are the way forward.

 

[alysonpeaches]

Well despite all the new plants and floating plants, the mollie fry that were there last week before I went on holiday, arent there now. So next time they appear I will get them into a fry saver net.