Molly Fish - Beginner Care Guide - breeding & feeding
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2020
- Molly fish, or just mollies, are freshwater fish from the genus Poecilia, in the Poeciliidae family. These fish are native to the Americas, but their habitat can vary significantly. They are a very popular group of fish. Most species are hardy and easy to care for, making them great for beginners. They work well in peaceful community aquariums. If kept in a healthy environment, a group of mollies will thrive and can live up to 5 years. They are a peaceful bunch most of the time but can show signs of aggression when crowded or surrounded by aggressive tank mates. Therefore, it’s important that their tank is big enough, and that they have suitable tank mates. There are lots of molly fish varieties. The main differences are colors and patterns, and sizes and shapes can differ too.
1. Short-finned molly or common molly
2. Black molly
3. Black molly
4. White molly
5. Golden molly
6. Balloon molly
7. Lyre tail
8. Dalmatian molly
sexual maturity and male-female difference
an interesting experience to know the molly fish gender. Firstly, make sure that mollies are mature enough in order to identify their gender because mollies usually don’t display gender at an early age. Let the molly fish fry grown up to mature fish for at least a few months. After when they reached the age of maturity you can identify their gender on the base of 5 signs.
1. Color
2. Size & Shape
3. Dorsal Fin
4. Anal Fin
5. Behavior
tank requirements
A molly fish needs at least a 10-gallon aquarium. This size would be depending on the species - larger mollies like the Sailfin will need a 30-gallon tank. Each additional molly will need around 3 gallons to live comfortably. A tropical fish like this needs a heater in the tank to maintain temperatures of 72-78°F. Keep pH between 6.7 and 8.5, and hardness between 20-30 KH.
tank mates
As peaceful fish, they don’t cause many problems, so they go great with other peaceful species in a community aquarium.
Some good choices include Cherry Barbs, Corydoras Catfish, Danios, Dwarf Gourami, Harlequin Rasbora, Platies, Rosy Barbs, Tetras, Yo-yo Loaches, and Zebra Loaches.
There are lots more to choose from, most small peaceful community fish will be fine.
Fish to avoid are large or aggressive. Large fish will try to eat your mollies, aggressive ones may attack and stress them out to the point of death. As an example Cichlids. Some cichlids aren’t a problem though, like Angelfish.
food
As omnivores, there are lots of different food types that you can feed them. In the wild, they’d eat small invertebrates, but mainly plants and algae. There are many similar foods to give them in an aquarium.
Algae is a big part of their diet, they use their lips to scrape it from surfaces. Vegetation is important too, you can use small pieces of green vegetables from your kitchen. Lettuce, spinach, and zucchini are all good options to drop into your aquarium. You can even use them to make your own homemade fish foods.
Artificial foods like flakes and pellets are an easy option. Try to supplement these with other foods to provide a wide range of nutrients.
Live and frozen foods are excellent sources of protein. Bloodworms and brine shrimp will be happily accepted, but most other options work well too. Live foods are more interesting for the fish come feeding time too.
Feed them small amounts twice a day. This gives their digestive system a chance to process the food. Give them as much as they can finish in two minutes.
breeding of molly fish
Mollies are livebearers, which means their eggs develop inside their body so that live fry can be released. They are one of the easiest fish groups to breed in captivity and will mate regularly.
Raising the temperature slightly could help to initiate mating, but don’t go higher than 78°F. Males perform a courting display for the females when the female is ready to mate she will allow the male to fertilize her eggs. Sometimes the male tries to “sneak-copulate” where he approaches an unaware female from behind.
Females often choose to mate with the largest males. and guppies and mollies can also breed with each other.
After fertilization, it will take 35-45 days before the young are released. Larger females could release up to 100 juveniles.
The young need to be separated from the adults or they will get eaten. One option is to put pregnant mollies in a breeders box before they give birth, the young are free to leave the box through small holes but the adults stay trapped.
You can feed them foods like broken flakes or live feed until they’re big enough to eat the same foods as the adults. At this point, they can be mixed back in with them. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
The good thing about mollies is that both female and male have striking bright colors unlike the guppies whos only the male is the most colorful one leaving the female bland in colors
I'm getting a molly from my local petbarn. It's my first molly and I can't wait for him to arrive🤗
Buy more than one please, don't ever keep fish alone
@@namratagogoi2763 so true. My male beta was alone for 3 months and loves his 2 new male Molly mates
Update please?
what happened? hows the fish today?
I love the breakdown! Thanks a bunch 👍🏽
best video about balloon mollies! straight on point!
It was so informative and helpful
Good video 👍 my love Molly 🐟
Great video!!
So I have a tank of mollies. All black and I got them from my cousin and they were around almost a year old. There was 4 to 5 adults, and like 3 to 4 smaller ones and a snail. A week into having them in my 35 gallon tank, they slurped the snail out of the shell. I bought more different mollies, and over the months they've all been gang attacked by the big black mollies and they would be eating each other alive. The mollies I have are actually piranhas in disguise. They have big giant scars all over their bodies and look so scary, but healthy otherwise. Cannibals
Nice content!
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Absolutely excellent advice thank you xxx
Thanks for the info 🙂😊
Thank you for sharing this video 😁👍
superb!
Loved it
thanks u help me a lot..
nice 1 firts greetings from philippines
Thank you my fish is a female
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Excellent
Nice video!
Nice work for the video, I love it it's very full details 😊, thank you again...
And kindly make also for betta fish and guppies fish
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Nice
Fine
That was satisfying and Informative
Glad you enjoyed it
good explanation
can we add molly with Goldfish, Guppy, Angel and Koi fish
😍😍
I got a male platinum lyretail and a Dalmatian lyretail molly
Nice vid 🥹👍🏼🐟
My Dalmatian molly had baby’s but she only had 4 and they look kinda gray blackish but the Dalmatian didn’t attack pr eat them
My Dalmatian Molly only had two, she didn't attempt to eat them too 😊👍🏼
Your voice is like alexa
Actually he is using alexa he programmed it
I wants to answer that are Molly fin nip and can Molly lives with sword tail and angelfish and thanks for the video
Didn't know guppies and Molly's could breed with each other, I have both in the same tank
Wow !!
What would the new breed called?
@@IamPORT1 muppies 😂
@@l01s Yep, or gollies
I bought few mollies from petshop apparently they're used to brackish water because they all died showing signs of stress. Fortunately, one molly is pregnant and gave birth to 5 babies (2 are eaten, 3 was saved). I raised other 3 in different tank, 1 baby is not eating and later died. A month later, the other 2 are still alive. I raised them in freshwater, i think they'll be fine inlike their parents
Who ate them
Can you tell more information about Molly fish
hi my balloon molly gave birth and 4 survived-I don't have another fish tank so I put them in a see through plastic container for the time being, what do I do with the temperature n air flow for the baby fish? I thought I'd close the container and let it float in the tank? for a month n then let them in the tank with the others, is that okay?
Hello there.
Is it possible to breed with two different colours of molly?
Yes. Why wouldn't they be?
My yellow molly fish give birth in black molly fish
What a racist question
fenale😂
Is we can put soil on molly tank while breeding
I have a silver molly... And she is have ship shaped stomach... How to confrom she is pregnant...
Can I feed Molly's and neon tetra Betta fish food?
I got two free molly one has balloon tummy and the other one is im not sure what type lmao
I got it this morning now it's afternoon and on our way home the balloon tummy one died and now i only have one molly 😢
Why my Molly's Fry's are died in few minutes. The frys come out with some sticky like egg
2:18 they spelled female whorng
Can mollies live without oxygen filter ?
My gold bulloon molly died idk how. It had some kind of white thing on its fish😢
black molly I have is aggressive , nip other guppy tail, got finroted then die.
My black molly looks like a guppy family
Can we breed in a large bucket or large box? Will 1 make and female breed?
Its good to have 1 male molly in every 3 to4 female mollies..
Something is wrong with one of my mollys
Can I put my guppies and mollies together in the same tank
Yes they are peaceful I put them together and they didn't fight at all
Yes they can have babies
Mai ek chis puchna chara hu k mere fish tank me bohot Sara moly and 1 large size gold fish hai 1 sal se ...
Magar mai local fish shop se 6 chota gold fish lake us tank me dea and 1 week k andar andar sab Mar gea and Mera moly fish v mar raha hai avi tak 15 Mar gia har gante me 1 or 2 Mar raha hai uska skin and fin white he ... avi kea karna chihe??? Sir Please reply nahi to Mera sab fish Mar jaiga😶
How big container do they need if there are 4 molly ? Can they live in a bowl ?
Please do not put almost ANY fish in a bowl
@@pettime9926 did I ask? Its non of your buisness uncle
Just read your original comment, yes, you did ask and get your spelling right
Is sharks ok tank mates
What sharks? Are you thinking of bala sharks? Because if so absolutely not
@@pettime9926 no
My molly FRY are always fighting and ends up in dying 😭😭😭
Keep them feeded twice a day
Does they need air pump?
Can they live without oxygen?
They are living animals, yes they need to breathe. They can breathe through gills by sucking the oxygen out of the water. This can be provided by agitation of the water from a filter or from an air pump.
How do you tell when a Balloon belly Molly is pregnant?
Also thinking 'bout that😅
Ano yan? HAHAHAHAHA 😂
Nice
Thanks