Really hard time taking decent pics, but this was the best I could do for now.
There are this pair of adult mollies, I really like them and these photos don't do them justice at all. Blurry because I've messed up my camera settings and the mollies are constantly moving, while also blending in to the black background. I'll try again tomorrow, but I want to show what I can now.
The male does court the female pretty constantly, but she definitely puts him in his place and chases him off when she's had enough! Then he moves away and I swear, he sulks for a bit before going back to her.
@emeraldking he does have some gold flecks! His other side is more white/possibly some blue. It does look like he might have some blue to him, but that might be the tank light reflecting on some white scales. Wish I could get a photo when he's flaring his fins, they're really nicely shaped.
The female is a good size already, and have 30 or so molly fry too, which is a nice surprise! The guy said they're guppy fry, but I'm much happier to have some molly fry.
There's oddly this one slightly larger molly baby from a previous batch, then another 30 or so tiny fry just colouring up. Looks like there might be some bright white and black speckled dalmation-like fry that I like the look of so far.
The guppies! He said there were eight male guppies, but I count 10 males, and there was one poor young female being followed by a queue of males. Have separated her now! I do wonder how long she's been the one female guppy! She looks about 3-4 months old, doesn't look as though she's had fry before, but she will soon I'm sure...!
Most of the males have the red tail, silver dorsal and dark purple body, which is the same as guppies I've had before, but there are a few that are different. There's this lighter coloured cobra(?) guy, who is much prettier in person:
And a single male with the red tail and yellow/white body, which I like even more.
This guy has purple through his tail, nice deep purple colour body.
A couple of the smaller molly fry
More photos coming of the one unhealthy looking guppy....
These guys are in quarantine, I might worm them just as a precaution since I've dealt with worms in my tanks before and don't want to again! Since these came from *big box store I won't name, but do not like at all* I feel like worming while in QT would be sensible, but I'm pleasantly surprised at how well all but one look.
The long term plan is set up my 240L tank and scape it in a way I like! Playsand, live plants, decent amount of wood, and more planning than I've done before. So there will be a tank build soon! Likely at the end of the month, so the plan is for these to live in the 240L with my bronze/sterbai cory gang, two plecs, last remaining elderly tetra, and my very shy, well behaved female blue gourami. I've really missed having mollies like these, so I'm happy to have these guys!
There are this pair of adult mollies, I really like them and these photos don't do them justice at all. Blurry because I've messed up my camera settings and the mollies are constantly moving, while also blending in to the black background. I'll try again tomorrow, but I want to show what I can now.
The male does court the female pretty constantly, but she definitely puts him in his place and chases him off when she's had enough! Then he moves away and I swear, he sulks for a bit before going back to her.
@emeraldking he does have some gold flecks! His other side is more white/possibly some blue. It does look like he might have some blue to him, but that might be the tank light reflecting on some white scales. Wish I could get a photo when he's flaring his fins, they're really nicely shaped.
The female is a good size already, and have 30 or so molly fry too, which is a nice surprise! The guy said they're guppy fry, but I'm much happier to have some molly fry.
There's oddly this one slightly larger molly baby from a previous batch, then another 30 or so tiny fry just colouring up. Looks like there might be some bright white and black speckled dalmation-like fry that I like the look of so far.
The guppies! He said there were eight male guppies, but I count 10 males, and there was one poor young female being followed by a queue of males. Have separated her now! I do wonder how long she's been the one female guppy! She looks about 3-4 months old, doesn't look as though she's had fry before, but she will soon I'm sure...!
Most of the males have the red tail, silver dorsal and dark purple body, which is the same as guppies I've had before, but there are a few that are different. There's this lighter coloured cobra(?) guy, who is much prettier in person:
And a single male with the red tail and yellow/white body, which I like even more.
This guy has purple through his tail, nice deep purple colour body.
A couple of the smaller molly fry
More photos coming of the one unhealthy looking guppy....
These guys are in quarantine, I might worm them just as a precaution since I've dealt with worms in my tanks before and don't want to again! Since these came from *big box store I won't name, but do not like at all* I feel like worming while in QT would be sensible, but I'm pleasantly surprised at how well all but one look.
The long term plan is set up my 240L tank and scape it in a way I like! Playsand, live plants, decent amount of wood, and more planning than I've done before. So there will be a tank build soon! Likely at the end of the month, so the plan is for these to live in the 240L with my bronze/sterbai cory gang, two plecs, last remaining elderly tetra, and my very shy, well behaved female blue gourami. I've really missed having mollies like these, so I'm happy to have these guys!