How to breed mollies easily
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Put males and females in a tank w some plants. Feed them. Change 50% of the water weekly. They will take care of the rest I promise
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I have Mollies in a couple of my Medium-Cichlid tanks. The adults Survive just fine, 95% of young ones get eaten by parents or cichlids. Just enough survive to replace any adults that die or get eaten.
I also have Endler Colonies in several of my Cichlid tanks. They're too small for the Cichlids to concern themselves with, but if I skip feeding for more than a day they start disappearing.
I've tried a few other livebearers, but Mollies and Endlers are the two that work best in my tanks.
I don't do anything special or unique to breed them, other than toss smaller food. I'm currently using Hikari Vibra Bites for them. I'm not advocating for the stuff, it's just what I have.
I have Mollies in a couple of my Medium-Cichlid tanks. The adults Survive just fine, 95% of young ones get eaten by parents or cichlids. Just enough survive to replace any adults that die or get eaten.
I also have Endler Colonies in several of my Cichlid tanks. They're too small for the Cichlids to concern themselves with, but if I skip feeding for more than a day they start disappearing.
I've tried a few other livebearers, but Mollies and Endlers are the two that work best in my tanks.
I don't do anything special or unique to breed them, other than toss smaller food. I'm currently using Hikari Vibra Bites for them. I'm not advocating for the stuff, it's just what I have.
For the beginning stay away from the large sail fin varieties. They can be quite problematic. For any other Molly it's what the others already wrote.
When I started to seriously keep fish, it started with Mollies and they were quite simple to breed....literally just put males and females in a tank and they just bred. Chalk it up to ignorance bliss, beginner's luck, or whatever you want to call it, but it was the early 90's I was a teenager, I bought a 10g tank. Got a few Mollies, they bred, bought more 10g tanks a few more times as they kept breeding. I had probably 5 (10g) tanks filled with Mollies. And this was before MFK and just the beginning of the internet, so no...I didn't properly take care of them....100% water changes every 3 months, didn't add salt to make it a brackish water tank, I think I remember adding aquarium salt periodically. They literally had gravel, a fluorescent castle, and fake plants with an UGF and I don't even remember if I had a heater yet.
Thatās crazy
But if thatās the case, I should be good. Iām trying to breed for food to try to get some better growth rates on my fish without risking parasites. Iām going to see if I can go from 8 mollies to 100 in 4 months, feeding bloodworms and higher protein pellets along with natural algae that I grow on terracotta for some plants, so hopefully I can see some 1ā ish a month growth from the little ones
Yes.
Normaly I never would recommend medication without diagnosis, but with livebearers and worms I make an exception. They are just too common.
The big sail fins are P. velifera, P. kykesis and P. latipinna. They are way harder to keep and to breed in prolific numbers than the other Mollies. They tend to fall ill quickly and to show dwarfism and other genetic problems after only a few generations. Sometimes the F3 is already heavily affected. Them getting sick often is also somehow the reason for many people believing mollies need salt. Though they can live in pure freshwater habitats in nature, they often seem to do better with salt in the aquarium. Which prevents the outbreak of some diseases and makes them grow better but also tends to decrease their lifespan.