I think my molly might give birth soon mainly because she is only swimming on he top of the tank and my male molly is going crazy arond her never letting her be alone for a second! Should I put her in the V-Trap Now?
Molly In V-Trap Now?
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tricksterpup
It's SPRING!!! BUNNIE RABBITS
That is typical male pattern for most live bearers. As for putting her in a v-trap.. most fish get very stressed in containers like that and i have seen aborted babies. I highly recommend keeping your mollies in heavily planted tanks. So that way, the young have a place to hide. This will allow for more young to grow. And it will keep everyone happy.
jim
jim
no lid is fine. make sure your temperature isnt too hot for the molly.
plus, i've had bad experience with V traps. i put my guppy in, she just wont bear the young, i take her into a net box (another kind of breeder trap), put some plants, a few days later i got 20 or so fry.
agreeing with trickster about stress on fish. V traps are way to small. V TANKS are good, but internal tank V traps ive just had bad experience with.
my 2 cent
plus, i've had bad experience with V traps. i put my guppy in, she just wont bear the young, i take her into a net box (another kind of breeder trap), put some plants, a few days later i got 20 or so fry.
agreeing with trickster about stress on fish. V traps are way to small. V TANKS are good, but internal tank V traps ive just had bad experience with.
my 2 cent
most mollies do OK in V-traps when they are ready to pop, just don't forget to feed her when you feed the others. Swordtails on the other hand go crazy and panic in confined spaces and usually have miscarriages or jump out of the top. I had to widen the slot in my V-trap because the baby mollies were too fat to escape into the bottom part and got jammed. A small file or dremel tool works good for this.
As for plants on the top, Hornwart works very very well.
It grows very quickly, and is the perfect fry-hiding plant.
It grows very quickly, and is the perfect fry-hiding plant.
I would personally never use a V trap, the stress on the fish is much more of a risk than fry loss from predation in a well planted tank.
This is especially true in the case of Mollies, which, in my experience rarely eat their young if they are well fed.
My suggestion is lots of plants [java moss being the best,imo] good diet including a generous amount of vegetable matter and you should not have a problem growing out a fair percentage of the fry.
This is especially true in the case of Mollies, which, in my experience rarely eat their young if they are well fed.
My suggestion is lots of plants [java moss being the best,imo] good diet including a generous amount of vegetable matter and you should not have a problem growing out a fair percentage of the fry.