Mollies "squaring Off" But I Feel Really Cruel

[Liz1993]

as i dont have anywhere to put the fry when she drops so its just gonna be whoever gets hidden the best survives, Ill probably only keep one of her first lot of fry and the rest are going too my LFS

 

[fluttermoth]

Try not to feel cruel. It's just the way of nature that most fry get eaten very quickly

 

[Liz1993]

Theres plenty of plants and hiding spots for them so hopefully some will survive!

 

[OldMan47]

If there are only mollies in that tank, maybe this will make you feel a bit better. This female dropped her fry in a 10 gallon tank and I took this picture 38 days later. I just kept her well fed and she ignored most of them from the very first day.

 

[5teady_2012]

I also had Mollies only tank years back and mine always seemed to leave her dry alone, Molly fry are a decent size when born too and are much stronger swimmers as fry.

Keep us posted on how they get on and good luck

 

[winkle]

My sailfin mollies are great mums; they don't ignore the fry, they just treat them like other harmless tankmates. They will swim around them and if the fry are swarming all over an algae tablet the adults give up and swim off to try their luck elsewhere.

Swordtails are bad for eating fry though; pretty merciless and determined

 

[mcqc4]

In my molly only tank, the mollies ignore the fry for the most part. I do have one female molly that will eat fry. So I put her in a different tank that has guppys, gouramis and platys in it. I have a paradise fish in another tank that takes care of most of my molly fry. Some survive but most disappear. It might sound cruel and my wife was not happy with the idea of the "babies" getting eaten but once I was over run with over 100 fry, she understood that some times you just have to let nature take its course. Please don't write me nasty messages about this. I feel it's much crueler to keep 100 fry in a 10 gallon tank than it is to let the fittist survive.