Molly pregnant AGAIN?!

[endilliteracy]

I know they can hold sperm or whatever but she just had a whole bunch of fry (7 survivors) Her stomach flattened out after she had them and then about a couple days later she is huge again and looking like she is ready to explode! I can't keep having fry in my tank, it is only a 30 gal. As of now, I don't know where the fry will go once they grow up! I am thinking about re-homing the mom and all of the female fry, then keeping all the males. What do you think? Anyone want a pregnant molly? I live in Florida.

 

[isu_guy]

Only keeping males will end the endless stream of fry. I can't tell how stocked your tank is from your profile (on your profile it says a 10g, in the message 30g) But some people control the fry by putting in fish that will eat them. Just a thought

 

[endilliteracy]

Oh my sig is very old and out-dated. This is what is in my 30 gal:

1 bumblebee catfish (I assume he ate most of the fry because when I came home from work his belly was HUGE...he looked pregnant!)
1 kuhli loach
1 dalmation molly
1 opaline gourami
2 blue long finned rams
3 glass cats
7 neons
1 female betta

I would just let the other fish eat them but when I see the little fry swimming at the top I can't help but to scoop them out and stick them in the breeding net to save them. I just can't watch them get eaten. I guess I will donate all of the females to a LFS and just keep the males.

 

[BobK]

I'm going to have the same problem. A week after I bought a pair of Sailfins the female gave birth to 50+ fry. It's a 75 gallon tank and it was lightly stocked so I'm okay for now. I left the fry in there and neither the parents nor any other fish seems interested in them. They all appear to be doing great - eating, pooping and growing. I'll probably have to get rid of them eventually but if mommy keeps having fry I'm doooooomed!

 

[endilliteracy]

I'm going to have the same problem. A week after I bought a pair of Sailfins the female gave birth to 50+ fry. It's a 75 gallon tank and it was lightly stocked so I'm okay for now. I left the fry in there and neither the parents nor any other fish seems interested in them. They all appear to be doing great - eating, pooping and growing. I'll probably have to get rid of them eventually but if mommy keeps having fry I'm doooooomed!

Well the only fish in my 30 gal. that seemed interested in a fry meal was my bumblebee catfish and believe me...he had his share of fry! His belly was so full I thought he had dropsy or something when I came home from work. Then the next few days he didn't eat anything. Now his stomach is back to normal.

I was just going to let my fish eat the fry but I saw 3 swimming at the top just kind of looking at me. I couldn't let them get eaten so I went out and bought a breeding net. I was like, "Eh, it is only 3 babies. I can keep them." When I got home I saw 2 more. Then finally by the end of the night there was a total of 7! I put them all in the breeding net and they are eating baby brine shrimp crumbs. I put some gravel in the breeding net so they can scavenge for food and grow big! They have doubled in size since I put them in there. They used to be all white/translucent, but now you can see some tiny black spots on them. I am thinking they will probably all be dalmations.

I will probably just donate all of my female mollys to my LFS.

Goodluck with the fry! They are really neat to watch grow up. I feel like a mom.

 

[Kittycat]

I can totally relate. Things worked out fine when I put my guppies in with my neon dwarf rainbows, I never got to see any fry as they apparently get eaten up pretty quick. Then I moved some guppies to their own smaller tank thinking they'd eat their own young, anyway, now I have like, 30+ babies in there, plus a few that survived in the tank with the rainbows and I didn't have the heart to leave in there to be found later.