Ok I still consider myself new at this, I have had an aquarium for 3 years but can't keep the water straight-still working out kinks, I guess. But I stick with Mollies b/c i love the many colors they come in and the fact that they are livebearers and my kids get to see the babies. ANYWAY, I had 4 female and 1 male in a small 30 gal. (one day I am goign to get good enough to have a huge 100 gal) anyway, 2 females died and then I thought the 2 females were PG b/c they both got extended bellies. Then after the poor male had "bred" himself to death I was left with just 2 Females. One had 15 babies and the other never did have babies. So then the other morning I am looking at the female who didn't give birth and her anal fin is now like a male's! I have watched her for 2 days to see if I am just not seeing her fold it or something but no she is definitely like the male's. Mollies are pretty easy to sex so I know what I used to have. All of that said, can they repeoduce if they change sex? This is a new one for me, I only thought frogs did that!
Molly changed sex
- Thread starter HeidiF
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mollies dont change sex .. you probably just got a young one and it finally matured .. how big was it when u got it ??? plus also female mollies are bigger and rounder then the males .. the males are long and slender ..and if you have a female molly that has allready given birth then she will probably give birth again about every 35 days ..and they dont need a male around .. we found out the hard way ... buy one and get 20 .. *walmart special* .. :rant2: lol
Marn
Marn
yea this happened to me too...i thought i somehow had an all female batch but then i started giving them to freinds and then some turned male...actually just matured but whatever...males have spike anal fin females have a rounded fin...i ended up having 1male and 3females that i kept...all the females are pregnant so i will have babies galore soon...