molly fry

[Ben]

Hi.

My molly finnaly gave birth when i moved her into my 10 gal with guppys and neons. i got like 20 - 30 of them in a new 5 gal tank. how long can they be in there b4 i have to move them out? or can they live there for a month and a half.

 

[Ben]

help anyone

 

[Sassygrrl]

Ok, so you have a 5 gallon and 20-30 fry. They should be fine in the 5 gallon only for a short period of time. Maybe a month if you are lucky. It depends on how fast they grow. You can tell when it starts to look way too full!

At that point, make sure you have a 10 or 15 gallon tank set up for the babies to mature in. Are you breeding mollies intentionally or did it just "happen"? Do you plan to keep them? This is how I got started breeding mollies, by one of my females having babies. Now I do it as a hobby and sell them to the LFS.

 

[Ben]

well it never just happened. i wanted to get mollys cuz the last time i bred fish was wen i was 9 and i had guppys. so i wantedto do it agen and last month my molly gave birth and she did it agen this month(dw i no everything) and i got a 5 gal a few weeks ago that i wanted to put them in, and i when theyre older i would probably keep 5 of my favorite from each batch and selll the rest off,