On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:08:54 -0000, "Donegal Paul"
wrote:

Well, we had two female white mollies in a tank upstairs and moved them this
evening to the 50 gallon tank downstairs which had a male and female.

Well, hot diggity but the male was all over the place and im pretty sure
managed to mate with one if not more of the females :-)

So, the question is, what now??

You might as well start asking what you are going to do with the fry.
I moved a female to my quarantine tank and the next morning there were
50 fry, a cloud of the things. Most lived and I ended up putting
mollies in all my tanks. The natural actions of these lusty live
bearers will overwhelm all the tanks you can afford and have space to
make available.

I have no segregated all live bearers by sex. I still have one platty
that I have kept an eye one for months and now think it is a male for
sure, but I dread chasing it around the 75 gallon tank. These young
ones tend to be very evasive.

Putting females together is pretty risk free, but boys will be boys.
I have had to move males around trying to find compatible
associations. I have also lost a few male mollies over the months
after separation. I have had it with live bearers. A pox on them
all!

dick