I put mollies in my whiskey barrel "pond" and now I have a bunch of baby...

[Wren]

GOLDFISH! LOL!

The water lilies that are in the whiskey barrel were overwintered in a heated horse trough with the goldfish that live in the horse trough year round. I put the mollies in the barrel shortly after I set it up for the summer and now it is full of baby fish. The fish don't look like baby guppies though. The are copper/bronze color and they have a goldfish shaped tail... I think the goldfish laid eggs in the liles! I suspect there will be baby mollies too before long.

 

[Wren]

They do not look like baby MOLLIES.

 

[jpappy789]

Nice! Just thought I would note that when viewing the thread title from the main page it ends after the word "whiskey" :grinyes:

 

[Mgamer20o0]

what colors are the mollies?

 

[Wren]

The female mollies are orange with black speckles. The male's top half is orange, bottom half is white and he is covered overall with speckles.

I suspect the babies are goldfish due to the shape of the caudal fin and the fact that they have more metallic scales. I'd be happier if they were mollies though. I don't know what I'm going to do with a bunch of goldfish!

 

[saveone]

I just had the same thing happen. I brought the gf in to winter over. I was cleaning the fish room the other day and I was putting all my junk floss etc in a container. When I went back to empty the container the next day I saw 7 little mystery fry. I put them in a container and now i have 7 little gf

 

[bauer5152]

Nice! Just thought I would note that when viewing the thread title from the main page it ends after the word "whiskey" :grinyes:

I also think so.

 

[GuppyMan]

Pics? Either way, congratulations on the fry!

 

[Wren]

I actually put the million goldfish fry in with their parents, as I was really hoping for molly fry in the barrel. The goldfish lasted about a week with their parents. Apparently the parents figured out the little guys were edible. As much as I don't need a million more goldfish, I felt kind of bad...
This is the pic of the first batch of babies.

So now it is about 6 weeks later. I see baby fish in the whiskey barrel. I scoop them out and it is more goldfish! I assume these are just the ones I missed last time. If there ever were any molly babies, the goldfish are most likely eating them... In the new batch I just scooped out, there is even one starting to change colors from bronze to orange and black. Fun!

 

[GuppyMan]

Either way, the fry are nice and fun to raise. After all the goldfish are gone, there is no doubt you'll get mollies.