Posted by breezin on February 24, 2003 at 21:06:08:
In Reply to: One of my mollies is pregnant, maybe 2? w00t! Net Breeder? posted by paradoxic on February 23, 2003 at 20:42:50:
Dear Paradoxic,
Please, when you do get a job, pleeeeease get a bigger tank. Your fishies are very crowded. It will only get worse with one, maybe two pregnant mollies. If you have a local free paper with flea ads, you may find a good sized tank with all the necessary equipment at an affordable price. Also, keep your eyes peeled when passing yard sales (although depending on where you are located, yard sales may be a few months off! LOL)
Good luck with getting the photo. Without having one, however, you can still tell when birth is not far off. Your molly's belly will square off, looking flat on the bottom. She may also start acting strangely... sitting on the bottom now and then, nipping at the others, acting fidgety and uncomfortable. You'll know when she' not her normal self. The belly is the dead giveaway, though.
Best of luck.
~Patricia
:I know for sure one of my dalmations is pregnant, her belly has grown quite a bit since ive gotten her and just today I finally noticed her 'gravid spot'.
:another dalmation has a belly slightly smaller then her, but i can see a 'gravid spot' just bearly. I might be just seeing what i want to see. I hope my eyes arent playing tricks on me.
:as i had posted before, does anyone have a really good picture of a pregnant mollie. A picture taken right before the mollie gave birth. I want to know how big I can expect her to get.
:I would love to post up some pictures of my fish but first i need to get a job :(
:I plan on working at a pet store a few blocks away. I would have gone today to ask but they are closed (booooo to being open 6 days a week)
:anyway, the pregnant mollie is shorter and fatter then the rest, i am guessing the youngest. Im guessing if she gives birth it will only be to a dozen of so.
:I guess i should stop rattling on.
:oh yea. I have a 30 gallon tank with: 22 white cloud mountain minnow babys (have a inch maybe) and 3 female dalmation mollies, 1 male dalmation, and 2 female silver dalmations, also some real plants (a pot with 5 plants and 1 big floating one), 3 fake plants (2 big, one small), and a little cave thingy i bought for $17. I am aware i will have to cover the pump/filter intake with a piece of panty hose or such so the fry wont get suched in (thats why i want pic of mollie right before birth, so i know when to cover intake) Do you guys think i should get a Net Breeder to protect the fry or will they be ok?
:I read that Minnows will eat fry of their own kind if the fry are smaller then them, not sure about baby mollies. I think i should but i do not want to buy un-nessisary equipment. I also have a small 1 gallon plastic tank that i have kept at hand for a nusary and/or a hospital for the fish. I think i could just grab the fry with the net but i want some other opinions.
:I have read up alot about breeding on the net, but everyone has a differant opinion. Some people have said that their mollies ate their fry the first time the mollie gave birth, others said they have had no problem.
:I believe these mollies have been in the same tank as fry before. the pet store where i got them has a little container with baby mollies that had unexpectidly shown up in their tank.
:ok, ill stop talking now. Please reply.
