Kaga's Kritters
07-19-2008, 02:20 PM
I went to the lfs and got 3 female balloon mollies the other day. I picked out 3 that I liked and that looked like they were possibly pregnant. I brought them home and stuck the bag in the tank to float it for a while. Later when I came back to transfer the fish to the tank I found a few babies in the bag! One had already started giving birth. It was the gray female I believe, she had been the biggest and looked like she was about to pop anyway. I moved everyone into the tank and put some floating (fake) plants in to give the babies a place to hide. The gray female hides their a lot too, the other 2 girls are out swimming with everyone else...not sure why the gray one hides. Anyway, their are now a few more babies, probably somewhere between 5-10. The mom is on the smaller side, so I didn't figure she would have too many babies this time. I'm not not too sure the other 2 girls are preggy, the one might be but the other probably isn't. Oh well, at least I got a few babies, lol....they are so cute! The thing that kind of surprises me is that the babies are living in the same tank as 3 bumblebee gobies. The gobies don't bother them at all. I have also had ghost shrimp in that tank that the gobies didn't kill either. My gobies love their flake food though, they come up and gobble down the food I put in just like the rest of the fish. I do have some frozen fish food that I haven't gotten around to trying out yet. I keep forgetting I have it, lol. I have never used frozen food before, so it will be interesting to see how it goes. I know pretty much all my fish are hogs, so I should't have a prob getting them to eat it, lol. I think it's in blocks, so I will just break one loose and see if I can cut it in half and put half in the 10gal and half in the 29gal and see how it goes.