OMG! Brand new Mollie Babies!
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GINNY said:
Okay, I have them in a transfer bucket with some finely ground flakes...they also seem to be nibbling on the algae on the floating (plastic) plants I scooped out with them.
One more question: (Thank you so much!) Can I put them in with danios, or do they need their own space until they grow larger? My quarantine tank currently has 3 danios in it.
Okay, two more questions: How big do they have to be before I can put them back in with the adult molllies?
GINNY said:
Okay. Thank you.
Isn't it funny? If my daughter didn't go to the park and get a splinter, I wouldn't have been going upstairs to get the tweezers instead of cooking dinner, and I wouldn't have looked up at the tank while I was climbing the stairs, and I wouldn't have seen the little specks trying to hide in the floating foliage, and I wouldn't have asked you what to do, and I wouldn't have 8 new fish!
So...does this mean it's true that every time a butterfly flaps its wings, somebody gets 8 new fish somewhere?
Molly Fry
I had really fabulous luck with a heavily planted tank (lots of cover for fry to hide in) and feeding babies (and anyone else who wanted some) boiled egg yolk. I'd take a very tiny bit (the size of the head of a pin), put it between my fingers, and gently rub my fingers together under water. The teeny tiny bits that floated away from my fingers were quickly consumed by the fry.
This also results in having mollies who are terrific at being hand-fed. If I trailed my fingers in the water, I'd have a Molly-melee with all sorts of Molly-kisses on my fingers!! Tickly and fun!
I never removed Mommy Mollies, or did anything other than give the babies tons of cover. Eventually I had to give cups of Mollies to anyone who came to my house to visit...
I had really fabulous luck with a heavily planted tank (lots of cover for fry to hide in) and feeding babies (and anyone else who wanted some) boiled egg yolk. I'd take a very tiny bit (the size of the head of a pin), put it between my fingers, and gently rub my fingers together under water. The teeny tiny bits that floated away from my fingers were quickly consumed by the fry.
This also results in having mollies who are terrific at being hand-fed. If I trailed my fingers in the water, I'd have a Molly-melee with all sorts of Molly-kisses on my fingers!! Tickly and fun!
I never removed Mommy Mollies, or did anything other than give the babies tons of cover. Eventually I had to give cups of Mollies to anyone who came to my house to visit...
i make a mixture of flakes, freeze dried bloodworms, hakari brine shrimp, hakari daphnia and an algea waffer and put equal amounts in a ziplock bag (just add one algae waffer) and crush with a rolling pin or fingers, continue until you have a fine powder. Perfect fry food and they grow really fast with that mixture.