Mollies or Guppies?!?!

[itzacraze]

i would say about a month or so maybe a little longer ive never payed attention to moll's ive always had a lot so they were all different lengths

 

[Arizonagrace]

I had a molly give me 18 babies, and of those, only 2 survived to reach an inch. The water parameters in their tank were perfect and stuff, but only have 2. It has been about 1 1/2 months, and they are a little more than an inch. Guppies seem to get bigger. I put my fry in another tank with the water params the same as their birth tank. Still I had 40+ guppies in my last batch, and have only about 7 of them left. A lot depends on the breeding, if they are inbred or not. In a 10 gallon tank, my other babies grow out much quicker. I do water changes at least every other day and do about 20%. I feed them 3 times a day. Just remember that no matter how many babies you get, a lot of them can die before they mature.

Also, I had my guppies and mollies in the same 29 gallon tank. They simply wouldn't pop. After moving guppies to their own 12 gallon tank, I quickly got guppy babies. They do produce faster. Good luck

 

[xxt2goodxx]

mollies will eat guppy fry so keep em apart

mollies will also eat mollie fry so try to separate them as well... its like their way of population control... guppies on the other hand i'm not sure if they will eat their young but i know they can absorb them if they feel like its not a good time to reproduce

 

[SKEEZYjay14]

like your pic

 

[gazelle]

if its 1 or the other id do guppies if your breeding feeders cus guppies breed much faster

 

[szymon328]

i hand out with a lot of "big fish" guys.... ca/sa cichlid owners and we all go through this conversation... i and other prefer guppies... if done right you can produce hundreds of gupp's a month and they grow out to an inch or so in just few weeks mine take about 3-5 all my terrors are on gupp's and i have an enourmous guppy tank for my grandmother.... mollies even though they look bigger tank longer to grow out and are more suceptible to disease imo.... ive never seen a solid molly breeding program though but in my expirience my gupps are better than my moll's ..... set your gupp tank up with java moss all over the bottom and tightily patterned drift or something to let the babies get away from the adults.... once a month or so switch all the adults over to another tank and pull everything to find all your babies... and juvenile/adults they grow quik so pull feeders as needed.... the best way to breed feeders imo is the dual tank method..... breeder nets suck because i dont have time to watch my females decide to give birth you will lose a few and gain a ton so good luck but before u go and start gupp's get some molly's opinions

haha this sounds like the best plan im bout to do this lol