Need Quick Advice About Mollies

[zarebskifish]

hello my mollies have been constantly mating
but the females never become pregnant i have about
12 females and 6-7 males
the water is clean although i have just had some white spot but te mollies have been breeding
for months

any advice

 

[crazysilverwolf]

new to mollies, but do know they like brakish water, are you using a freshwater setup?

 

[lilfishie]

they do better in brackish setups but are happy enough in freshwater as long as it is crystal clear

 

[FishHobbyist1564]

Good work on keeping more females than males though

 

[crazysilverwolf]

On the subject of mollies just been down the local shop, he has some mixed mollies and half look like they finrot and whitespot, when i mentioned it, just replyed ohh they are quite suseptable to all those illnesses, no treatment was underway. don't think i'll be going back there. is this normal in shops for this kind of attitude?

 

[lilfishie]

you hear a lot of storys' about the LFS's treatment of fish, i luckily have a good LFS that treats any ill fish in a seperate tank, and the diseases were probably due to being in poor quality freshwater

 

[Xavier]

On the subject of mollies just been down the local shop, he has some mixed mollies and half look like they finrot and whitespot, when i mentioned it, just replyed ohh they are quite suseptable to all those illnesses, no treatment was underway. don't think i'll be going back there. is this normal in shops for this kind of attitude?

let me guess........PETCO only good for supplies

 

[scorphonic]

Good work on keeping more females than males though

I'm surprised with your view there fishHobbyist1564...its a well known fact that you should always have more females than males. However, zarebskifish you do have alot of males there...if it were my tank I would only have 3 to 4 males tops for 12 females.

I have my mollys in a seperate brackish water tank and they can be put into a fully saltwater set-up so long as they are slowly introduced so that they climatize to the water over a number of weeks.

My mollys were pregnant before going to the new salt tank and did become pregnant in the freshwater tank first. My advice to you would be to feed them with some good food such as bloodworm that you can buy in pre-prepared packets. If you have brineshrimp and the ability to mature the brine shrimp to feed to your fish then this would be a great food for them...good food usually gets the females to fertilise their eggs. Remember that a female can store the sperm until they feel like fertilizing the eggs...

Best of luck with it!

EDIT: How thick am I!! FishHobbyist1564, I re-read your post....haha...I understand what you are saying now!! I guess I just repeated what you were saying!!

 

[zarebskifish]

thankyou