molly

Hi, I've recently noticed that my dalmation molly looks bigger and her gravid spot is getting darker... I've never had babies before! I know what to do, but I'm just not sure if she's pregnant. I'll attach pictures:

Hi there About a week and a half ago (maybe 2 weeks) I purchased a Molly from the pet store. This is my first Molly and it is kept with my guppies and neon tetras. I have noticed that her stomach has gotten very bloated looking. After doing some research I found out that it could be that she's...

Hi, I purchased a molly 3 weeks ago and he is experiencing weird behaviour that I don't know what it is. I placed him in a 120 gallon cycled tank along with other species. Whenever I saw him acting strange a few days ago, I transfered him to a quarantine tank. He is the only one in the tank...

Hello, Please would someone help. My Molly has what I can only imagine to be a scrape on her head which has white fur? Hair? Fungi? Growing from it which seems to be growing. Can anyone tell me what to do? Will it infect the other fish? Can I help her? Thank you in advance

hello I'm just after some advice as I'm new into been a fish parent, I have a new tank 15 gallons, had it set up 10 days before I put fish in and the temp is at 26.5 degrees, I put 6 mollies and 5 little tetras in, I've done an ammonia test and that was with api test kit but it was hard to tell...

I have a 20 gallon tank with a group of mollies, two cory cats, and a mystery snail (cory & mister snail is new) anyways one of my younger mollies or the last day and a half or so had white poop with a red line just hanging off of him. he is hanging out right by the heater and in corners at the...

Ok, I am kind of new to this . A few months ago we bought 3 Molly , 2 of which were pregnant . When we got them home and in the tank we noticed a spot on one of the pregnant ones and thought it may be ich . We treated the entire tank along with the others. It didn't get better. We did the 20%...

Can anyone tell me what this white stuff is on my balloon molly and what u should do about it thank you

i was watching my fish earlier and saw a little thing darting around inside the barrels in my tank. I realized it was a Molly fry after I saw it again. There seems to just be one. Is it possible that my Molly hasn't had all of her babies yet or is it more likely that she ate the rest of them...

Hi guys, I wonder if anyone can tell me if they've noticed mollies becoming more shy, and whether it might be a sign of anything bad? I doubt there's anything wrong, my mollies are behaving perfectly normally (as far as I can tell) when I watch them from across the room but recently they've...

So I currently have only one fish in a 25-30 gallon tank of brackish water. He's a silver Molly with black spots named Rorik, and ever since his mom died, he's been alone. As a social fish, I worry about him, so I've been thinking about getting him a few tank mates. I'm trying to be careful, one...

Yesterday I picked up 5 new Molly. When I got home I was looking them over and realized that the reason the dalmation was hiding at the store was because she was in labor! (She didnt even look pregnant) She had the very tip of a tail coming out and you could tell when she was pushing. I...

Hi, everyone! I am new to Fishforums, and new to the fish world. I am looking for all the help I can get! I was given a 10-gallon as a birthday gift, and I went to a specialty fish store here in town as soon as I got it. I was given 4- white cloud minnows and was told they would cycle my tank...

So My Dalmatian-Gold Spot Molly has had alot of fry since we got her from the pet store. I usually just let nature take its course, But 2 crafty fry have survived for a while so I got a breeder net for them. They stayed there for a while but they got too big and my platy got very stress and...

hello, im fairly new to fish keeping and had a few issues in the beginning.. ive had to contend with two bouts of ich to which i lost virtually all (10) my Moscow Blue guppies and one neon tetra. (2 months ago I was gifted 4 mollies (3 boys, 1 girl) and 2 Platys (both girls). they all seemed to...

HI everyone.   I am quite new to fishkeeping but have managed to keep all but one of my first fish alive since January!! I accepted some free fish from a friend. I had 7 small molly fry. I hadnt read much about them at that point. A week ago I was able to notice that two of the larger ones are...

Hi all, was wondering if anyone has any insight into some strange Molly behaviour? I moved two of my 4 month olds into a temprary 30L as my main 90L tank was a little crowded (my first four mollies, who were supposed to all be female, weren't...population now under control!) They seemed pretty...

  Dear friends,   The day before yesterday I bought 3 dalmatian mollies for my tank. I noticed that sometimes my mollies (one in particular) move to the surface, where they just 'float'. He won't move and he won't eat. When opening the lid, the one molly I'm worried about will move and swim...

Hey everyone! I just thought I'd create a log to show the breeding of mollies and the community interactions in my 20 gallon aquarium.  I recently added 6 silver mollies to the bunch so now the tank is stocked as follows:  1 male skirt tetra, 1 female skirt tetra, 1 bleeding heart tetra, 3...

Hello everyone,   I'm hoping someone can tell me what to do for my black female molly. I've had her the longest for about a year now. She has been in a 10 gallon tank with a few other fish. They all live in harmony and no one in this tank has ever been sick or died.It's been up running now for...

I have a marble molly who i cant tell the sex. they wee fine earlier today and then i came home and they were laying at the bottom of the tank. I isolated them in a cup and theyre trying to eat but sink everytime they try to swim. What can I do? Im really concerned and dont want to lose them.

Hi,   Got a problem with a Molly fish. She been behaving weird since we got her about a month ago, but now she got a band tail and she sits on the bottom of the tank and dont move, unless for food.    Tank is 30L and got 4 fishes in it. pH is 7.0, ammonia 0.6, NO3 is 50 and NO2 is 0.8. Doing...

I just put in a new male dalmation molly and today I noticed that his side fin appears to be damaged and it looks like the other fish have been eating him... he is laying on his side, appears to be breathing fine, and swims really fast when I put a net near him.  I have two adolescent mollies...

So I bought a Molly from my LFS maybe 2 months ago, she's now looking quite large, but not huge and fairly square. I don't have any male mollies in the tank( community including a plecy, angelfish, platies and Pakistani loaches) though I have read they can store sperm/eggs. Can anyone tell me if...

One of my balloon mollies seems to have a fungus, at least I am pretty sure that's what it is. She's the only one in the tank with it. I have treated it with malachite green and a bit of aquarium salt. My question is, firstly, does it seem I have made the right diagnosis, and secondly, how do...

I....have no clue what fish is having babies. I came home from work to ANOTHER baby aside from the one that's survived from the Molly's batch...and I don't know who this one belongs to. It's smaller than the one that's already there, and this one is almost see through.   None of my fishies...

We received three gold fish as party favors. We had them in a small bowl and soon realized there was no filtration and no way to keep the food from clogging up the water and causing all types of problems. Eventually one died so we got a 10 gallon tank with a filter from Walmart and some...

So I got some new fish recently, in particular a balloon belly molly and lyretail molly which, as you guys know, have live babies. Today I got home and looked in the aquarium and saw some strange things at the top I thought at first were bubbles, and then quickly realized were eight baby fish...

I have a 45 gallon tall tank that I plan to put mollies in. I wanted to do a tank of lyretail females, and one large "centerpiece" fish. I have been thinking of a gourami, but I would like something more in the middle area of the tank. What do you all think? Do I have room for a centerpiece...

Hello all. I'm very new to the site and the reason for me joining was to possibly get some advice on what this fish could be? I have a tropical community tank with mollies guppies platies and mosquito fish. This baby looks like a mosquito fish but I doubt it. It was born with all of my other...

Hi, I am Joseph... I was just wondering how long after sperm was inserted into the female, does the female show that she is pregnant or in other words the "black dot" appears in front of her "anal fin?"

Hey Guys!   So this is my first post so ill tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Ryan, im 13 and I am an aquarium enthusiast!  A couple of years ago I had a 30g livebearer tank and it went downhill from my lack of knowledge on cycling and just immature keeping in general. So I now have...

Hi, Can you tell if my white balloon molly is pregnant? Note: * Black spots appears in her stomachs and she got very big (round). * The male is chasing her a lot. * She stays in one place (at the top of the filter and don't want moves a lot.)

Hi, I'm really brand spanking new at keeping fish. Three weeks ago, I went to the pet shop up the street and purchased 2 "guppies", McGee and Jethro. I knew from the start that Jethro was different, but I just attributed it to her being a female and thus being bigger. McGee passed away earlier...

So I've had my fish tank for about 6 months now, and my molly (who died about 3 weeks ago) had a lot of babies. There was one survivor and it's been fine til now. I noticed that it spent most of it's time just laying on the rock, barely moving. It breathes rapidly, and I feel like she's lost...

Hello all and welcome to my journal and documentation of my tropical aquarium experience! So around a month or so ago a friend of mine got himself a nano tank, and after seeing it and helping out with some research I got the bug; I wanted my own tank. As a kid I kept a very small tank in my...

I've recently gotten a male and female Dalmatian mollies (about a month ago) and I'm certain she is now pregnant! :D I've successfully bred platys before and I was just wondering if there was anything I needed to know that pertains specifically to mollies. Thanks a billion!

i have two mollies that swim vertical all day and another that stays at the bottom of the tank.  they eat fine and this has been going on for about a week, there not bloated or anything either.  since i noticed ive done 3 20 percent water changes, ive increased the salinty and increased the...

Hey my names alex im new to this site ive started breeding some live bearers thought id show off my breeding tank, Nothing flash just a 60 litre with molly's Guppie's Sword Tail's and platty's. Have recently got more fish for when i upgrade to a bigger tank. I have a Bristle nose Pleco, Sail...

Ok, so I have two young balloon mollies. They are 6 months old now but are only approx between 2.5-3cm in length. Considering mollies only live for between 1 and 2 years I was expecting them to be a bit larger by now. I have heard somewhere that when balloon mollies are inbred it can stunt...