I'm gonna have mollies!!!

[TowBoater]

Watched my orange sail fin mollie stud go around chasing his 3 girls this morning. I think he is breeding them, he gets right beside them and like pushes his lower fin onto them, yes I got him a 3rd female and man is he happy.:19:

[salman]

What a pimp lol. Mollies are breedaholics!

[*Sarah*]

You know, I got a male and female Molly about 6 months ago..well after a couple of months, for whatever reason, the male died. Well the female is happy as can be, and just a few days ago SHE HAD BABIES. She stored those fertilized eggs for MONTHS before she had babies. I found only 2, and I have them in the breeder box right now. :)

[RobbieG]

Congrats to both of you:19:

[TowBoater]

I am just gonna let them get really full and place them in a smaller tank until they pop and put them back in the big one with the "pimp".:hmm3grin2orange:

[Dave66]

You know, I got a male and female Molly about 6 months ago..well after a couple of months, for whatever reason, the male died. Well the female is happy as can be, and just a few days ago SHE HAD BABIES. She stored those fertilized eggs for MONTHS before she had babies. I found only 2, and I have them in the breeder box right now. :)

When I used to keep livebearers, the record for a female velifera was 228 fry in a day's drop.

Dave

[TowBoater]

Wow, that girl was filled out nicely!:laugh1blue:

[Dave66]

Wow, that girl was filled out nicely!:laugh1blue:

Pure blood velifera mollie males reach five or six inches, females about an inch less, so that was a big girl that had that many. Velifera females routinely have well over 100 fry at a drop.

Dave

[TowBoater]

I have orange sailfin.:c5: They are roughly 4" at the moment.

[*Sarah*]

mine are the orange as well :)

[TowBoater]

They are the prettiest in my opinion of the sailfins.

[*Sarah*]

I hope that one of my babies is a male :)

[TowBoater]

I hope you do as well, the are beautiful.

[nanaglen2001]

I have only female Sailfins, the males I got are mixtures between sailfins and normal mollies. Purebred sailfin males always die off in my tank. I whish I would know why, then I had a fair chance to change whats wrong.

I cross your fingers at least on of the fry is a boy:ezpi_wink1:

[Dave66]

Nanglen,
WC/F1 Mollies, especially velifera, need algae and lots of it. They have to be able to graze on it all day. Also, they need pH 7.5, moderatly hard, with sea salt added at a teaspoon per two gallons. Parelling humans, mollie males are more fragile than females.

Dave

[TowBoater]

My pH is 7.2, hard water, and no sea salt, only aquarium. He does fine, I guess I am doing it wrong but I can't add salt because I have snails and scaleless fish in there.

[troy]

Don't move Sailfin mollys when they are heavily gravid becuase that will cause the female to give birth prematurely which can result in crippled fry. Move her to
a gallon alone that is planted when you first see her filling out.

I also prefer orange sailfins out of all sailfins, but I don't like the ones with the orange eyes.

[TowBoater]

I have 2 starting to fill out.

[troy]

I'd say wait about 2 weeks, then move then. If you don't want a lot of fry you could add java moss and a few will probably survive until you find them and move them to a different tank. You'll need a large tank and have to wait one year for the males to develop their sailfins. Also they probably won't get the size
of their parents.

[TowBoater]

I will be giving them to my LFS for store credit probably, they said they would take them. Don't know the size they want before hand though.

[Rocky06fx4]

I will be giving them to my LFS for store credit probably, they said they would take them. Don't know the size they want before hand though.

I could be wrong but I'm waiting 90 days before I bring my Plattys back to the main tank.

[TowBoater]

Mine won't ever go back to the main tank, they will go right out of there own tank to a bag and to the store.

[cuzimthemom]

I was wondering if any one knows what happened to my black sailfin mollie, she was so big and fat and last night I finally caught her and put her in her breeder box, this morning there was 1 dead fry, and about 15 little eggs, with the fry inside being all different sizes and stages of development, was she egg bound or was she pregnant for to long????? I've never seen eggs before only live frye. Any help would be appreciated.

[TowBoater]

It disturbed her pregnancy when you moved her.