Molly Fry 1 Week On

[Althamon]

My Dalmatian Molly gave birth to fry last week and they were pretty big. 7 of the fry made it this far in a breeding tank and I accidentally dropped some live bloodworms in with them and they polished them off to my surprise, they already look too big for the danios to fit in their mouths so my question is this:

After 1 more week with them being in the trap will they be able to join the general population?

 

[Biddles95]

can you tell me roughly the size of them now?

 

[Althamon]

When they were born about 10mm in length 4-5 mm in height now they are 15-18mm and 7-8mm in height, I understand they were probably slightly larger than normal when born

 

[Biddles95]

haha yeah they were a bit large when born
i reckon after the week they should be able to live
and for sure they would be if you have some plants in your tank...
i remember in my 4 foot fish tank i had angels and gouramis and my mollie's fry survived in that and i had lots of other fish much bigger than them fry haha

 

[Althamon]

That's great thanks. they have some dense plastic planted areas and sparsely planted too and they have a moss ball to play with too.

I have already noticed spots starting to appear now on a couple of light ones but I know itcan be a good while yet before the main colours show

 

[Gilli]

The rule with fry is dont add them to the tank until they are too big to fit inside any fishes mouth and they will be fine!