Molly Fry Maybe Not Ready
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The thirds no where to be seen but 2 of the fry are hiding between the plants and seem to be quite full of themselves as they seem to be teasing the bigger mollies then swim back for cover when the bigger mollies turn to get them lol
I have released one of my ninja-patterned fry (called Ninja lol!) in the tank with his sister Pinky.
He's my most beautiful fry.
Has metallic red back and a blood-red face, with red pectoral fins. His daddy doesn't have colored pectoral fins, but has yellowish tail and dorsal fin, while Ninja has those clear.
I hope he gains green-blue metallic scales too, so he will have rainbow colors on him like his daddy.
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Those colours sound sweet we'll have to wait and see if the colours come out
Yeah, those red pectoral fins are looking awesome, bet he got them from his mommy. If he develops red or yellow in the dorsal and tail, he'd be a complete rainbow swordtail.
Oh, and he also has a white belly like his daddy. X)
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I'm sure the colours will come out soon and my 2 fry that I can find in my tank are happy as a pig in mud. They've been swimming in open water so to speak and eating what they can as soon as it drops to the bottom. And I've noticed they have white stomachs which confuses me a little as the mum come out a all black Molly tank from the lfs ??? They'll prob darken off as they grow and I'm hoping for a male as dont have a black male and a female to equal the numbers out
I'm not sure what causes that white patch to appear under some fish such as swordtails, platies and mollies, but I think it's called a tuxedo type.
Also, it doesn't really matter what colors they are, they'll breed with whatever they can lol. I have a black male and red female swordie and he seems devoted to only that red one and ignores the lyretail female (though he did try to score with her when I put her there but his "wife" beat the scales out of him LOL, so now he doesn't even go near that lyretail and always hangs out with his red female)
I just moved Sushi into the main tank too. Now they're 4 fry in there. I think I will name the youngest one Hoppy, since Tzuppy the catfish is his adoptive father and Tzuppy actually means jumpy.
I removed the fry cage, now my hoplo can swim freely until I'll need the cage again for my lyretail's babies, whenever she'll drop them.
I removed the fry cage, now my hoplo can swim freely until I'll need the cage again for my lyretail's babies, whenever she'll drop them.
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im not fussed really as long as their healthy but does it usually happen with females or males ???, plus it means different colours which is always a bonus and my tank looks empty without a fry trap in it but i dont think it will be long till its back in there again lol.
The white patch happens to both genders. At the beginning of this year, when I bought my swordies, I had 3 of them. So they were 1 black male with white belly, 1 black female with white belly and the red female.
So yeah, females can have white patches too. I lost that female due to bullying from the red female and stress from fish-in cycling (long story, had almost no choice).
But anyway, if she bred with my black male, most of the fry would get cancer since they'd end up with extremely black fins, too much melanin. Better to breed black with red ones. Or orange or any other color but black.
These two little ones are black with white patches on belly like their daddy. Sushi has yellow fins like him, I just noticed that now that he is free too.
Pinky's there too, but she's too fast for the phone cam. Lol.
And the youngest fry, Hoppy is pink too, with black fins, but he's too small, can't catch a proper pic of him and he's hiding most of the time.
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My wife and little girl would love pink fish, I can't wait for my viper Molly to get preg as I reckon that would be some weird fry colours
I don't know if mine will stay pink, might turn into blood red. Though I did see a bunch of pink ones at the pet shop. Pale, light-pink ones. But something about them seemed ugly: they had a failed pintail shape or shapeless tail fins. One of them caught my attention though but I didn't buy it: a heart-shaped tailed one, pink swordie. Would have been an awesome acquisition but I was after Java Fern back then, not fish.
What does a viper molly look like?
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Sorry iPhone predictive took over. God I love the iPhone predictive like a hole in the head lol was ment to be copper Molly ( just double checked to make sure it didn't auto correct ) to get preg as I've got marbled/ Dalmatian and silver male Molly's in my tank so could be some wacky colours coming lol
And orange males
And orange males
Wow, a copper-colored fish? I'd sure want a swordie variant of that. Maybe some day I might get some interesting strands.
My goal is to make some cool looking red hi-fin lyretails with dalmatian spots and some normal swordies with cool markings of red and metallic black-green-blue like my oldest male.
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heres a pic of my copper molly, i cant wait for her to get preg as the different colours/ patterns would look cool, and im sure you can get the colour mixture if you male gets busy lol,
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