molly fry questions

[Hels]

Hi everyone

this may sound like a silly question but hey i'll ask it anyway....

i've got both silver and black mollies... im guessing they can interbreed but what do the babies turn out like???

are they one or the other....or marbled ...... or maybe even a grey colour?

plus are the babies born their colour or do they've develop it???


thanks

 

[morgan]

Hi, I started with two Dalmation Mollies, both female but must have been pregnant when I bought them. One was Silver and one was Black. From these two I had 23 surviving fry, I had to give some away to local lfs. I have some silver, some dark, some with lyre tails and some with large dorsal fins. I am now on the third generation and they are all different too. I only have 3 surviving new fry so the rest must have got eaten when they were tiny. I thought the third generation might be deformed due to in- breeding but they are ok. Their parents must have been cousins rather than siblings. I do not breed them on purpose, it just happens! If the tank gets crowded I will have to give some more away. The ones with lyre tails are very pretty. Mine have always ended up the colour they started out as, although when they are tiny it is hard to tell.

 

[Elisabeth83]

I have black mollies and she throws these silver ones occasionally. They are almost like dalmation mollies but not if you get what I mean? They are silver with some pearly scales on their sides and then have black spots. So yeah I guess you'd say they were marbled. Although I am sure if you've got a pure silver molly and a pure black molly your going to get some black mollies, silver mollies and then some of these marbled ones. I'll try and get a pic of my 2 marbled ones tomorrow for you

 

[Elisabeth83]

Sorry for the terrible quality and the water marks ) But heres a few pics I just took of one of my females. I've got 1 male as well ...he's more marbled than her.

 

[Hels]

thanks guys

great info.....i've got some babies at the moment and not quite sure which colour they are but it sounds like i'll prob get a mix which will be nice!

great pic btw..... very pretty mollies!

 

[fawnmodel]

Apparently they can be the reverse too.. in fact my male sailfin is the opposite, all black with some very small silvery parts - so though technically he is prob a dalmation who has big spots hence being nearly all black - he is called 'marbeled'. His brother and sisters were dalmations and blacks.

 

[fawnmodel]

Apparently they can be the reverse too.. in fact my male sailfin is the opposite, all black with some very small silvery parts - so though technically he is prob a dalmation who has big spots hence being nearly all black - he is called 'marbeled'. His brother and sisters were dalmations and blacks.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Are you sure you can handle raising the fry? Fry can be very time consuming and molly fry take up to a year before they are fully mature and due to being such big babys for so long, if you have 10 or more fry you are going to need at least a 10gal tank to raise them in to a decent size. Livebearers are easy to breed, but due to the large amounts of fry they can produce, they are not always easy or cheap to raise their offspring.