Black Molly gave birth, advice needed.

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Mercy

Something Fishy....
Apr 23, 2009
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hello,

i bought a fish tank just a week ago & was doing fine until today,
today my black molly fish gave birth to a few babies, since i never knew one of my fish was pregnant, i did not bother to buy a breeder box or net. so today when i saw the little babies, i hastily shifted them to a small jar to prevent them from being eaten, i managed to rescue only 5, i guess the rest were eaten. also i do not have another tank to move the babies.

what i would like to know is:

1)will my baby mollies survive in a small jar without an oxygen pump ? (i can arrange for something bigger, but i cant get another oxygen pump on it)
2)how many times a day do i feed them? (i usually feed dry worms)
3)how long will it take for them to be a good enough size so that they wont be eaten when i transfer them back ?

also the molly that gave birth seems to have developed a small white patch on its body- after some researching i found out that it could be ICK, please suggest a simple treatment for this ?

please respond,
thanks in advance :)
 
First of all how big is your tank? Do you have a heater in there? Is it planted? Is your tank cycled? If your tank isn't heavily planted, then I would buy a breeder box and let the babies live in that. They need to be fed finely crushed flakes twice a day in the beginning and must have their water be clean, so more water changes.

My molly had fry around 3 weeks ago. I think seven survived before I put them in the breeder box. After about a week and a half, I let them out of the box and into the tank. They are still alive today, but I have a planted tank with lots of floating plants.
 
Thanks for the reply,

i have 15 gallon tank without a heater or any plants(yet, i am planning to put some in).

so i should use a breeder box for the fry right ? ok thanks for the advice.

lastly, what about the white patches on my molly? after looking at some affected fish photos, it looks like its not really ick, coz first of all, there are only 2 white patches on my molly & that too arent circles, they seem to be somewhat like a 'line', could it be somekind of stress marks ?
 
deviljin said:
A picture would help. Do you have a water test kit? And is your tank cycled yet?
Click to expand...

ok i will try to get a picture.

no not yet, i will buy a kit today. & no its not cycled
 
I woke up one day to find about 30 guppie fry swimming around the tank. I went and bought a breeder box but by the time I got back most had been eaten. I managed to get 3 into the box although only 1 survived. The breeder box floats at the top of my tank which means the water is the same as the fry were born into.

I had him in the box for a couple of weeks until he was big enough to survive been eaten and have let him into the main tank now. He is doing brilliantly now...
 
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