Pregnant Mollies

[stue123]

hi was just wondering if anyone knows if you can keep more than one pregnant mollie together i have a juwel rio 400 community tank and under it a seperate quarentine tank. noticed 3 of my mollies r pregnant and starting to buldge so i have put them in the seperate tank but do i have to consentrate on 1 of them having fry or will they all be ok together can anyone help me on this as i am kinda new with breeding mollies

i tryed to get pictures of my mollies but they are 2 fast and cant get a clear picture but they are deffo pregnant

i just could do wit any help towards caring for them and to know if i have 3 female in my quarentine tank will they eat the fry

thanks [/size]

 

[OldMan47]

Welcome to the forum Stue.
As long as they are well fed, mollies are not big fry eaters. My big female is in a tank alone with the fry that she had on Wednesday and is pretty much leaving them alone. With all of the fry drops I have seen her have, I have never caught her eating any fry and I never bother to remove her after the drop is finished. In general your females can be expected to be OK together with the fry as long as there is cover for the fry to hide, just in case one of the females is an exception to the rule. Make sure that the food you give your mollies is high in vegetable content because the kind of mollies we get at a pet shop are largely vegetarian in nature.

This is my big female the day one of her drops happened. The fry in the picture were just a few hours old at the time.

 

[stue123]

nice 1 for that i am not 2 sure ow long they have i just noticed they ave gone massive and i ave 6 females to 3 males so i have just took tem all out they say its best to leave te light off is that true

 

[OldMan47]

I keep my heavy females in a planted tank to give the fry some cover so they need a light for the plants. When I notice that a drop has started, I like to turn the light off to give the newborn fry a better chance to escape but I don't think it makes much difference with my mollies.