Mollie Fry

[kewskills]

hi all

At the moment i have separated my Mollie females and males as they breed to much and i keep having to re-home etc. The females are in a brackish tank and the males have been placed in my FW tank with corys, i want to put all the mollies in the brackish tank so they can all be in a brackish environment which i personally think is best, however they will breed again,
What kind of brackish fish could i get that will eat the fry when born but leave my adult mollies alone.
i have only ever kept mollies and corys so I'm investigating this elsewhere also just any help or suggestions are welcome.

Many Thanks for your help

Karl

 

[el_vulture619]

Congrats on the breeding! I have had no success with my mollies yet and bought them for the sole pupose of providing fodder for my wasp fish! I have a post here about my wasp fish, (panther gobie). This fish will eat the fry and leave the adult mollies alone. They all get along just fine! Its also a cool looking fish. Send your extra fry to me!! Ill help you rid of them!

 

[kewskills]

Congrats on the breeding! I have had no success with my mollies yet and bought them for the sole pupose of providing fodder for my wasp fish! I have a post here about my wasp fish, (panther gobie). This fish will eat the fry and leave the adult mollies alone. They all get along just fine! Its also a cool looking fish. Send your extra fry to me!! Ill help you rid of them!

i have never had a problem breeding them its stopping them that was the problem thats why i separated them in the first place, thanks for the reply shall go look up this Wasp fish.

 

[kewskills]

anyone else have any ideas please

EDIT: Spelling

 

[Freedom18]

Younger Sleeper gobies. they love eating fish, and although some say that they can get up to 12" (dorimatitor maculatus) mine (D. Maculatus) I've had for several months and has stayed at around 7 inches, and hes fine with anything larger than 2 inches (5 cm for you UK boys)

 

[kewskills]

thanks for the reply, they would be OK with my mollies they are over 2"

 

[BIG SHARK]

my mollies never breeded either and i had them about 3 month. got rid of em now like

 

[Freedom18]

They should be. Mine ignores anything that stays out of his cave, unless its small and tasty!

 

[kewskills]

They should be. Mine ignores anything that stays out of his cave, unless its small and tasty!

how big is yours ? fish by the way hehe

 

[Freedom18]

lol, 6 or 7 inches, hes hard to measure...

 

[Freedom18]

k, that might not work. I have mine in fresh water right now (thats what the LFS had him in) until I get my brackish tank up and running. Well i think he ate my african dwarf frog (nothing else in the tank big enough) and spit out his spine. and the ADF was around 2 1/2 inch's in diameter...