T Think Shes Going To Have Fry

[Littleleopard]

I have two mollies in my tank, I know one of them is going to have babys as i saw the man do the deed >> naughty boy! But the other i'm not so shore.

Here is my Little spotty dotty molly. sorry its not to clear.

 

[Reret]

Cool

 

[the_lock_man]

Just a little confused - you have 2 mollies, they are both female, but you saw the male "do the deed". That makes 3 mollies?

Anyway, assuming you meant you have 2 female mollies and 1 male molly, in the same tank, at the same time, then both females will be baby machines until their last breath.

 

[Littleleopard]

Just a little confused - you have 2 mollies, they are both female, but you saw the male "do the deed". That makes 3 mollies?

Anyway, assuming you meant you have 2 female mollies and 1 male molly, in the same tank, at the same time, then both females will be baby machines until their last breath.

Sorry about the confusion yere i have three. Two molly girls and a molly boy. thing is. would they still breed if they aren't in a brackish water system?

 

[fluttermoth]

Yes, they will. Mollies don't need brackish water at all, though they will do better if the water is hard rather than soft.

 

[OldMan47]

Pet shop type mollies will breed rather freely in any water that can keep them in good health. That means anything from hard fresh water to a pure reef tank salt water concentration. I happen to have fairly hard water where I live so all of my mollies live in tap water. If I want fry, I just remove the female to a separate location and in a month or less I have tons of fry. The separate drop location is needed for my mollies because they normally live in a community tank along with many much larger fish. I have ever seen a fry of any species survive in that environment, not even cichlids where the parents provide care and protection for the fry. Mollies provide no parental care so their fry are even more vulnerable than cichlid fry.