Confused Molly?

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lucky777ca

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Have you ever seen a molly that's confused and wants to breed with every fish in the tank? I currently have a black molly male (about 1") that tries to breed with all the fishes in the tank (exception for the larger kribensis cichlids and the bottom feeders)... He tries to breed with Tetras, Barbs, Kribensis Frys, Livebearers (Guppies, Platies), Blood Parrot Cichlid (small, only 1.5" right now) but doesn't go near the black female molly (about 3/4", must be too small)...

Has anyone else seen this behaviour in mollies? I have heard that molly males are picky about their mates and would only breed with female mollies, therefore reducing the interbreeding of guppies and mollies.
 
I have a male guppy that pesters the tetras. The tetras hate him. Obviously, he misinterpreted their attacks as amorous advances :D.
 
My male platies try to breed with anything that moves. I even caught one of them courting a plant leaf once.
 
I have a guppy that does the same thing!
 
So it's probably normal (I guess).

Thank you for the input. I will continue to separate him for now, until I'm able to combine him with the tetras and the livebearers in a larger tank (hoping for a 55G real soon around Feb. 2007... It's soon for me :D)
 
hahaha maybe its just mental!
 
Just as an update: The two molly frys turned out to be males and are trying to breed with a female Kribensis

What should I do? I don't have another tank to put them in with.
 
*laughs* You and your degenerate, lecherous mollie-boys. :P

I'd say maybe when you get your new aquarium, transfer everything but the mollies into the new one and keep your old set-up as a molly-only tank. Then maybe fraternizing only with their female counterparts will set 'em right!! XD
 
LOL :D

I'll do that. Although, it would have been great to have them with the others, but I guess I would have to do a community without including them as it is better for the other fishes to have some peace and quiet with the other peaceful fishes.

Then, I would be able to add some aquarium salt so they will be happier. Brackish, maybe?

Thank you, Kyohti :)
 
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