Molly Unexpectedly Had Fry!

[Sly13Cat]

We bought 2 female red mollies 2 months ago and recently they've both been swelling with eggs and I though they would just absorb them or something but today I look at the tank and there's a molly fry swimming around. I though if they got fertilized at the store they would have had the fry a long time ago but this one suddenly appeared. What do we feed it, how do we take care of it? How many more will she/they have? Right now it's in the cup we got a betta in.

 

[sadguppy]

They can store sperm for six months and have fry every month. They are generally pregnant when they leave the LFS. See the livebearer forum for details.

 

[CezzaXV]

I'd personally leave them in the main tank and let nature take its course. Livebearers will have fry all the time whether you like it or not.

 

[Sly13Cat]

We moved them to a spot where they can spawn and we just checked and they had 12 more!

What do we do?

 

[Cazgar]

If you want to raise the fry you'll need an extra tank to grow them in, or
you could use a large breeding net in the main tank for them, it'll be a few weeks before they're big enough to go in with the adults though.
Just a note of caution, livebearers drop fry every month or so, so if you save them all you'll soon be very overstocked

 

[soybean]

Just leave them in the tank and let nature take its course. You'll probably end up with more, they're always dropping them.. You're already planning on removing/rehoming the adult mollies because theyre getting too big for the tank, why would you want even more?