What Is One More Fry Topic Gonna Hurt?

[Monte20]

With my 2 female mollies spitting out withing a week of each other, I have more fry than I can handle. I have 49 in a breeder, and I see about 4 swimming around the tank. There is no way I can keep all these fish. I have a 55 gal and 20 gal. the 20 has just 5 zebra danios. Im thinking of releasing the fry and let nature do its thing. The ones swimming around arent being bothered at all right now. I think they are just big enough to be left alone. My thinking is to let some into the 50 gal, and the rest into the 20 gal. and when they are big enough to give them to my fav lfs for store credit. me loves store credit. hehe. What shoudl I do. Im torn because I have already grown attached to all the fry.

 

[WILDER]

Just let them take there chances in other tanks, if you have plenty of plants and hiding spaces most of them will survive, it must be better than being a breeder net.

 

[Monte20]

Thats whay I think. I just feel guilty.

 

[paulthegreat]

If you do not have a grow-out tank then the best thing is to leave it up to nature. Some may make it and sales or store credit are not bad things! There is always the chance to get a grow-out later since you are likely to get 50 or so fry every 4-6 weeks for the rest of your mollies lives

 

[Monte20]

by grow out you mean what size tank?

 

[Annastasia]

A grow out tank for Mollies would have to be about 20 gallons, and that wouldn't even raise more then a few generations at a time.

I'd say let nature do it's thing. I know you feel bad, and guilty, I felt the same way. But you get the strongest, healthiest fish, which will be good.

 

[Monte20]

I started to release some. I let the first 5 out. the danios immediatly started after them. I paniced and netted the frys back into the breeder. took me 3 hours for 5 fry. lol. I just cant set them free. im such a sucker for these things.

 

[tonilee7]

I Started with just a few mollies and guppy's at first, I tried desperately for months to get a batch of fry. About 6 months ago I got my first batch, and I know what you are going through, letting them out into a tank with big fish is not fun.

So it got the better of me I went and brought a seperate tank for my babies to grow out in. If you are interested in trying to breed fish your best bet would be to get another tank for the babies only, but if you just like them having babies for the fun of it maby it would be best just to let them go and let the toughest survive other wise you will end up with one very over stocked tank.

I was only doing it for fun but now my fish are breeding like mice I have decided to keep breeding them coz my lfs will buy them of me.

At present I have roughly about 500 baby fry and that is just from 4 weeks, now they are starting back at the start.

I feed my baby mollies powder form flake right from when they are born,but for my smaller fry (plattys, guppys, and swords) I feed liquid fry food for the first 2-3 weeks and then flake.

When my fry get to about 4 weeks I start to introduce small amounts of Frozen bryne shrimp.

 

[Monte20]

i give the ones in the breeder fry food. but the ones in the 55 gal that i cant get too are a little harder to feed. the biiger fish will get the food beofre they do. cuz they are way down hiding all the time. there are 4 in the tank itself. just cant seem to net them so i left them alone. the other fish dont bother them anymore. how do i feed these particular guys.

 

[Tolak]

When I was doing livebearers I kept them with the parents in a 55. Survival of the fittest works to a point, adults can only eat so many fry.

To get food down to the smaller ones, I would put some regular size flakes on the end opposite of the hob filter to feed the adults, then put some finely cruched flakes directly in the flow of the filter. It shoots the tiny flakes right to the bottom.

Tolak

 

[!Gina]

I would let nature do its thing, Its often the best way and trading them for credit sounds good when they are large enough. goodluck.