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In my tank, there are two sailfin mollies, two black mollies and one
silver molly. There are also three fry of varying sizes, all black, with the largest having some pale-coloured patches on its abdomen. I know one of the fry came home from the LFS, but I don't know where the other two came from. I've been assuming that one of the mollies in the tank arrived pregnant, but most websites seem to say that a pregnant molly is very *visibly* pregnant - i.e. it's not something you'd miss - and I've not noticed any of mine looking pregnant. Is pregnancy in a molly always unmissable? And could fry born at the same time in the same tank grow at different rates so that they are now quite different in size? (It just occurred to me that maybe the largest is a male? - I'll have to wait for it to come out and see if I can tell.) One of the black mollies is male, one female. The male has a much larger dorsal fin than the female. Is this a characteristic of gender, or is it something he's acquired through breeding? When he flares it, his dorsal fin looks almost as impressive as the male sailfin's dorsal fin. Behaviour - today I've noticed that the male black molly is being very aggressive with the female black molly - prodding her to the extent that he's actually knocked her over sometimes. He's pushing at her just behind her anal fin. She's taken to hiding down near the bottom of the back of the tank, which made hubby suggest that maybe she was giving birth, but I wonder if she's just trying to get some peace from the male LOL. She looks plumpish, but certainly doesn't have the "almost square from the front" appearance I've seen described on websites. If we do get more fry (and from today's reading I think it's almost inevitable, and yes, I can see a larger tank in my future LOL), I know we should use a breeding trap of some kind. What kind is best? - the nets which allow the water to flow through? - the solid perspex kind? - the specific breeding ones that let the fry fall through into a separate compartment from the mother? And when should I move the mother-to-be? I know it should be as late in the pregnancy as possible, but is there any particular kind of behaviour I should look for? I am really liking this fish-keeping business by the way :-) -- FishNoob |
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