so does mollies give birth or lay eggs? cuz i see round orange things underneath my molly but there are babies too. and will they eat their babies? please help me i dun want my babies to be eaten!!!!!
2006-10-27 17:36:42 · 15 answers · asked by Rainbow 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Mollies are live bearers(no eggs) the orange things are the egg sacks. Mollies are very good mom's and the baby's will be ok unless someone else in the tank eats them. You'll need to crush up your fish food to feed them, the fry food at petstores is a waste of money, just put a bit of flakes in a ziplock bag and use a rolling pin to crush them. Good luck with the babys!
2006-10-27 17:41:52 · answer #1 · answered by pharfly1 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Molly Fish Birth
2016-11-13 21:52:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Livebearers
Livebearers are generally very easy to breed. Like most other fish, the hard part is raising the fry. Generally the parents and other fish in the tank become predators to newly hatched fry but there are several solutions to this problem.
The easiest solution is to provide good cover and hiding places for the fry in the form of plant cover like anacharis* and hornwort*. This will help but some will still get eaten. Another solution is to buy a breeding net, which provides a separate compartment in the aquarium for the mother before she drops the fry. After dropping the fry the mother can be removed so the fry are separated from the rest of the tank by the breeding net. Along the same lines the mother and fry can be placed in a separate aquarium so the mother can be separated from the fry when they are born. Breeding traps are also utilized which keep the mother confined with a grating that the fry can pass through.
The fry can be fed baby brine shrimp, which is usually purchased frozen, or can be hatched from brine shrimp eggs. Also pulverized flake food, which is sold as baby fish food, and hardboiled egg yolk strained through a cloth.
2006-10-28 03:30:40 · answer #3 · answered by hhhhhhh 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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Yes, she will definitely give birth again. What probably happened is that she got stressed and aborted the pregnancy before she was ready. It happens when they are bagged and the put into a different tank. My fish did the same thing. She may even be pregnant again, because they can store sperm and fertilize their own eggs. So, don't worry, she'll get pregnant again.
2016-04-11 04:08:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mollies are live bearers so you won't see any hatching egg. Place some plants in the tank so the smaller mollies can have a hiding place and to keep adults from killing the babies. You can also ask the pet shop if they have this little floating cage that separates the molly to its free swimming babies if you have a smaller tank. In my experience larger tank deters adult mollies from eating its babies.
2006-10-28 00:01:41 · answer #5 · answered by John the Pinoy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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so does mollies give birth or lay eggs? cuz i see round orange things underneath my molly but there are babies too. and will they eat their babies? please help me i dun want my babies to be eaten!!!!!
2015-08-06 23:41:20 · answer #6 · answered by Jettie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mollies give birth to live babies. make sure that you have plenty of hiding places for the babies, or get a "nursery net" for them. Make sure they don't get sucked up into your power filter, if you use one. You can put a net over the end if the holes are big enough for the babies to fit through.
2006-10-27 17:43:03 · answer #7 · answered by PennyPickles17 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Guys please help, I have a pregnant molly,,,,, it s 2 weeks n she still looks pregnant,,,,,, I m scared n don t want the babies to die,,,,,, generally how much time do they take to give birth..... Will she have any issues while she delivers,,,, any precautions,,,, I am too scared :-(
2015-04-27 12:21:33 · answer #8 · answered by Dimpy Samwani 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mollies are live bearers. Meaing they give birth to live, well developed offspring. And yes, they will eat the fry. If you want them to survive the best thing to do is to move them to their own tank.
2006-10-27 17:39:33 · answer #9 · answered by piper 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I can't remember if it's mollies or guppies (i kept them together) but we had to put this little floating upside down plant at the top of the tank for the (live) babies to hide in until they were big enough to be on their own in the tank. (you are talking about fish right?)
2006-10-27 17:41:05 · answer #10 · answered by sixcannonballs 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋