Breeding Black Mollies?

Question

Is there any techniques i could use to breed black mollies?

Answer 1

mollies are actually brackish water fish (they love salt) mix part sea water and part fresh for their perfect habitat. Get the water temp to about 75 F and include a lot of plants real or fake. maintain regular feedings and a minimum of 3 females per male. Keep an eye on the tank, they may breed but mollies are notorious for eating their own young

Answer 2

Not at all! It's easier to breed mollies than to not breed mollies :)
Just put a male and females together (it's best to have 2 females for every male - males are very amorous and will pester single females) and they will throw out 20++ babies every 30 days.
Personally, I don't like using breeding nets. It's a lot of stress for the mother fish to be caught in a stuck in there while having her babies. It can result in her aborting them too early. I prefer to go through after and catch the babies with a net. It's pretty easy, and if you provide lots of plant cover for them, they won't get eaten by their gluttonous parents.


Oh, same goes for all your other questions about the swordtails and platies. Livebearers are very easy to breed (including guppies, and endlers livebearers). Just keep the water clean (adding a little aquarium salt can help, about 1tbsp/10gallons, but is not necessary) feed them well, and get ready for the flood of babies! :)

Answer 3

The real question is how not to breed them. There are 4 keys to doingg it right:

1)Only have one type of live bearer. All the molly breed will happily mate, and produce odd looking offspring. Guppy,platty, and swordtail will also mate, but produce no offspring. (This cuts down on productive mating.

2)Provide lots of cover, or use a breeding net/box.

3)Separate the fry, or they will get eaten.

4)Feed the females a healthy mix of algae flakes, and freeze dried blood worms.

PS- Molly are fine without salt provided you have moderate to hard water. That said in all molly tanks throw in 1 teaspon of salt per gallon of salt to prevent ich, and velvet.

Answer 4

Well sure, not exactly certain on what you want to know, but if this is your first attempt at breeding fish, you might want to try a different species. From my experience, Mollies (of all sorts) seemed to give our customers problems. I'd recommend stopping by a book store and picking up something on tropical fish breeding.

Best of luck...

Answer 5

You can almost be on auto-pilot with molly reproduction. Two or three females to a male. Try to keep a smaller tank for the fry. Then transfer the fry immediately as soon as you see them.

Answer 6

i have basically bred a silver balloon molly with a gold balloon molly and they have come out black??? i have had her for extra or less 2 months so i'm assuming that she replaced into taken income of on the puppy keep.

Answer 7

any freshwater livebearer is really easy to breed. They make floating separators that you place the pregnant female in, and it separates her from the newborn young so she wont eat them. the young can eat either a fomulated gel diet, or finely crushed flake food.

Answer 8

well in the beginning you get a male and a female and let them do their thing, then when you see the fem is ready for giving birth you put her in nursury tank inside of main tank. when she gives birth take her out or she will eat the babies.

Answer 9

no just keep the water clean and the fish happy

Answer 10

you shouldn't have any problems breeding them they are very easy





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