dalmation molly fish breeding

You must be knowing that all molly fishes are same species so you can breed any one of them with any other Molly fish. Breeding is very simple task.You need one male and few females with good water conditions.The number of females should be more then the males because males like to chase females ,this makes females more stressed.She can even give birth to several batches of babies over a year even in absence of males because of their sperm holding capacity.Before hand you should also arrange home for new babies else avoid their breeding.

If females are stressed then they may give birth to unhealthy babies or immature babies.So try to put lots of hiding places for females.

The gestation period of females is of about 30 -40 days.Females will start becoming more rounder as the time pass.When the female will about to give birth her stomach shape will be like \___/ .Then females will give birth to fries.Remember they are live bearers .They will give birth about 30-40 fries at a time in time of about 1-2 hrs .In my case they give to birth to 30 babies in 1 go and on the next day she again give birth to 10 babies.

Remember to shift the mother or any other fish away from babies otherwise they will eat the babies.However mother will not react to babies while she is delivering the babies but after process is complete then she may try to eat them.

You can use breeding nest if you are not having any separate tank for babies development. Breeding nest is made of separate net fitted on plastic structure and you can attach it in main aquarium.You can also go for breeding box which have separate chamber for fish on the top from fish fries may pass to bottom chamber where no other adult fish can access. You can put babies in it till they grow enough that is about for 1 month.In these you should have proper water circulation and steady temperature.

If you are putting them in separate tank then remove gravels from the tank else fries will be crushed under them and use sponge filter so fry may no got suck in any other filter.Feed the babies crushed flake food and try to avoid disturbance to them.Then 25 % of water in a week.Don't over feed them.If you are having live plants in tank of babies it will benefit them.

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