I am pretty sure my black molly is about the give birth, for the last two days she is hiding at the bottom of the tank or under the rocks. She is very fat and seems like she is pregnant.
I moved her to the small breeding tank that float in the big tank last night and this morning when I woke up, I noticed that her belly is almost gone but there were no babies, she still looks fat but much less than before.
Does anyone has any clue to what's going on with her???
Thanks for your help
2006-11-17 06:27:45 · 10 answers · asked by orenjuice5 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
One option is that maybe she ate the babies, especially if moving her to the breeding tank stressed her enough to cause her to give birth prematurely to fry that weren't fully formed. Another option is that mollies do get visibly round sometimes after they eat, especially pregnant females, and that her body has just gone back to normal. The third possibility is that she was bloated from stress or constipation and the move to the breeding tank alleviated the problem. My pregnant females typically do not hide, so I'm thinking it could be stress.
2006-11-17 07:16:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They will eat their babies for some reason or other. They make a special breeding tank/holder for that. Has some kind of v shape at the bottom the babies drop into or something. I've usually just left the mom in the tank, when she has the babies, I'd fish them out with a net and put them in the breeding net. That way with the plants and gravel, they have a somewhat better chance at survival/hiding. It's a pain though trying to find them all, they're so small, and just when you think you're done finding them all, there goes another one lol.
2006-11-17 07:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by tikitiki 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could be she was just bloated for other reasons. Or she had them and ate them. Or she was stressed from the move and gave birth prematurely, and they all died, and floated to the bottom. Are you certain that the fry aren't hiding some where in the tank. Ideally a breeding tank should have lots of cover.
2006-11-17 08:38:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe she ate the babies...next time put her in the breeding tank earlier so she doesn't get stressed so close to giving birth.
2006-11-17 20:34:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
she probably ate the babies, livebearers do that, especially since they dont eat a few days b4 birth so they r really hungry
2006-11-17 08:01:39 · answer #5 · answered by Skittles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she could have eaten them, did you put in the divider on the bottom of the breeder tank?
2006-11-17 18:31:34 · answer #6 · answered by devilgirlwithcape 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well baby fish are small my fish gave birth to about 5 but she has many to go and she may have laid eggs instead of live birth but never have the cleaner on when they are born it killed one of my gupies
2006-11-17 07:49:02 · answer #7 · answered by marissa m 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Live bearers tend to eat their babies when it's their first time having them.
2006-11-17 09:23:58 · answer #8 · answered by rahimj_27 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe she ate her babies
2006-11-17 06:32:50 · answer #9 · answered by KCam 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
She may have eaten the eggs.
2006-11-17 08:17:57 · answer #10 · answered by redbass 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋