Silver Molly Fry

[siren1974]

Hi,

I'm new to this forum and after reading many, many threads am taking the plunge and making my first post (so please be gentle)

I have two silver mollies in my community tank and about a month ago I caught them in what looked like mating behaviour. Low and behold 4 weeks later I have my very first fry!!! After a mad dash to my local fish store to get a fry trap I have managed to rescue 10 fry. I am puzzled though as they appear to be different colours, some are dark and some are clear. I've had them for quite a while now, a good 3 to 4 months so I'm sure my silver molly is the dad. Am I likely to get different colours?

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I was supposed to be getting a new tank to house a betta this weekend but perhaps that plan should be postponed and I should get a larger tank for the mollies. Gosh, decisions, decisions.

 

[nosoup4you]

It is possible that one or both of your fish are the offspring of a darker fish and they therefore are carriers of this trait and passed it on to their offspring.

[Edit] Also, Mollies can store sperm for quite a long time, meaning that the male that you have may very well not be the father. I've heard of Mollies storing sperm for 6 months (perhaps longer).

 

[omega59]

it is always neat to see what your fish will turn out to be as they keep growing

 

[siren1974]

It is possible that one or both of your fish are the offspring of a darker fish and they therefore are carriers of this trait and passed it on to their offspring.

[Edit] Also, Mollies can store sperm for quite a long time, meaning that the male that you have may very well not be the father. I've heard of Mollies storing sperm for 6 months (perhaps longer).

Wow, that would be cool. I can definately see one that is much darker than the others. I suppose the tricky part is keeping them alive now

 

[flash22]

she may well of been pregnant when you got her. imho its nice to get different colours. Ihave fry that are now 3-4 weeks old what are lepard (yellow\black) bred with a black dalmation salfin and 4/5 of them are silver.

As i have said before mollies seem to do better free swimming (not as stressed) fed on crushed flake and micro pellet