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07-03-2008, 03:16 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jul 2008
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|  pregnant mollies??? what to do?!!!!! so i am all new to fish and in my fishtank are: 1 swordtail male 3 swordtail females 2 male cremecicle lyretail molly 2 female cremecicle lyretail molly 1 tiny sucker fish 1 small sucker fish i think one of them is pregnant and i got a breeder thank that floats on the top of the tank and i put the pregnant one in it and she is going nuts in it...i dont know when she is due to take her out again till she is closer to give birth? today i bought that one female swordtail and a pair of the cremecicle lyretail mollys....now i think that femal is pregnant too...i am going nuts and dont know what to do!!!!!! help!!! here is a video of the one i bought today: MOV04287.flv - Video - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting and here is a pic of her: http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...2/DSC04290.jpg and here are the pics of the one i had for a month i think: http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...2/DSC04291.jpg and http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...2/DSC04292.jpg i need help !!!! |
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07-03-2008, 07:50 AM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: kansas city, ks
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|  what size tank is this? i would say leave the soon to be moms alone...it will stress them out more than anything to put them in the little breeder. get some decorations or java moss for the babies to hide in once their born and yo will have a a few that survive, the strong survive and the sick or weak will get eaten  it keeps yo tank from gettin overcrowded too
__________________ 12g SW: 1 false-perc 29g: 8 panda corys, 2 black skirt tetras, 2 otos, 1 swordtail, 5 platys 58g SW: yellow watchman goby, 6-line wrasse, 3 firefish gobys, scopas tang 75g: 21 kuhliis, 10 discus, angel, BGK, 2 otos, 4 BNs, 2 platies, 1 GBR plus 3 cats, a dog, and a baby bunneh |
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07-03-2008, 08:04 AM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Essex, England
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| Yeah you should really take them out of the breeder box thing. It reallllllly stresses them out. Like fuzz said, just get some decorations and plants, and let her give birth in the main tank, then the babies can hide in the plants and stuff. Some will survive and some wont
__________________ 35 GAL - 6 saulosi (2m/4f), 2 saulosi fry, 1 Bristlenose Pleco 8 GAL fw planted- 3 rummynoses, 1 platy, 1 swordtail, 1 Male GBR 12 GAL Planted- 2 Red-breasted Dwarf Cichlids (Laetacara dorsigera), 3 Swordtails |
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07-03-2008, 11:20 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Aston, PA
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| If you'd like to save the Majority of them...try this: Read my Post from another thread: proud father of 15 I have set up Two 1 Gallon "Breeders". Much More room than those Floating Breeders, and the Pregnant fish seem to like having thier own space without of the fish bothering them. Using this "set up", I have had 9 Mollies, 9 Guppies, and 37 Swordtails. Only 4 casualties total from those 4 batches of Fry. The only Cost I encurred was 5 bucks for a sponge filter and 20 bucks for the 25W Heater. You need to have a small air pump too, which I had laying around, but that would only be another 10 dollars.
__________________ Various sizes from1 to 20 Gallons-Breeding and Growing Out 55 Gal - Swordtails, Plecos, AE, Guppies 125 Gal - Live Plants, Mollies, Angelfish, Cory, Ottos  RIP - Neons, Cories, Swordtail - Victims of "The Great Boiling" 8/9/08 |
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07-26-2008, 10:12 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 69
| I have had a different reaction in my community tank. When my mollies and sword tails are starting to give birth, all of the other fish follow her around and it really bugs them. When I get the moms to be in the breeder tank, they relax, do their business, then let me know when they are finished. I end up with 50-70 mollies and 30-50 swordtails.
__________________ 55gal:sword tail(2f, 1m); albino redtail shark(1) named "redeyes"; pepper cories(4); silver mollie(2f, 1m) male is named "spaz"; orange moon(2f, 1m); marble angelfish (4) 75gal: (3) Vampire Shrimp; (1) Electric Blue Cray; (12+) RCS; (70+) Silver Molly fry 150 gal: (3) neon tetra; African Dwarf Frog (I think); (45+) RCS; (5) tetra or rasbora (LFS doen't even know what they are)  5- 10gal: empty going to hold fry as soon as I can make a place for them. |
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