Black Molly Fry

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Offline adenann

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Black Molly Fry
« on: February 11, 2017, 04:01:24 PM »
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Like @Sue and her pictures of Rice Fish Fry, our Black Mollies are extremely difficult to photograph.  They're too small and quick so it's a bit of pot luck if just one picture in around 20 turn out to be even slightly OK.

Here's the best of our bad bunch.

BTW:  After today's water change we now counted 10!

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Re: Black Molly Fry
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2017, 04:03:44 PM »
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They look cute as well as my rice fish  ;D

The nice thing about livebearer fry is that they look like miniature fish rather than the odd shaped things that egg layer fry are  :)

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Re: Black Molly Fry
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2017, 04:59:35 PM »
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Congratulations  :cheers:
They look adorable.  ;D
Beginning to miss having fry in my tanks, it's lovely watching them grow up.

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Re: Black Molly Fry
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2017, 05:23:39 PM »
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 :wave:
Of course the really odd thing is we got 4 females, 2 Black and 2 Silver, precisely to make sure we didn't get into fish breading territory.  Any Hanky-Tanky :yikes: must have happened at MA before we got them!

I'm not telling MA, as they may want to charge extra!
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Re: Black Molly Fry
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2017, 05:33:35 PM »
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Don't forget mollies can have fry every month or so for around six months if they've ever been in a tank with a male for longer than 10 seconds......

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Re: Black Molly Fry
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2017, 04:09:45 PM »
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I saw the picture without reading too much.  I was wondering how far away the little molly was, hehe.  They look lovely.

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Re: Black Molly Fry
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2017, 06:06:18 PM »
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@marquismirage
I suppose the lens was about  30-35cm away.
The bottom of the water level marker at the back of the tank is 2cm long which fits in with my estimate that the fry are currently 1cm nose to tail.
It also fits in with the Gourami just further down that I guess is 3-4cm body length.

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Re: Black Molly Fry
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2017, 06:23:44 PM »
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Don't forget mollies can have fry every month or so for around six months if they've ever been in a tank with a male for longer than 10 seconds......
@Sue , I hope not. We'll need to get shot of at least 8 (if they all survive).  Would MA buy some back do you think?
We have a theory that our surviving Black Molly adult may not be the mother after all   Mrs Adenann was browsing the Internet this  afternoon, not interested in the all-day footy.  Some sites put forward the idea that Mollies often die after giving birth.   It may be that the Molly we lost just before the fry appeared was stressed by the birth together with the recent white spot  / fungus treatment.  The fry could have been hiding in the gravel for a few days, only appearing after mum had died. Maybe then we won't get any more fry.

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