molly

Hey! So another new tank idea I had was hybrid fish!!! I have bred guppies for about 3 years now, I have tried breeding balloon mollies but can't get fry because the male is so fat he can't breed right.  But I do have a pretty good knowledge of livebearers.  Lots is just from watching my fish...

Hello, I am a pretty intermediate fish owner, and have two tropical aquariums. recently I purchased a Dalmatian Molly from Petsmart and I found it dead in less than a week. A month later I decided to try again. this time I got a Dalmatian molly as well as a yellow molly (I forget the proper...

I got a fish a few days ago all ammonia level and nitrite is good and so is nitrate however one of my mollies has a white dryisish spot near its tail here it is 

I have a 55 gallon tank. In it I have Opal gourami Blue gourami Pink kissing gourami Gold gourami Dwarf fire gourami Dalmatian Molly Black skirted tetra Neon green tetra Silver dollar Denison bard Blue mystery snail It is a very lively tank. All the fish have there own personality. I...

I have a few questions about 2 creamsicle mollies that I just added to my community tank. I have a 55 gallon tank currently inhabited by 6 fruit tetras, 1 angelfish, an upside down catfish, 2 plecos and 2 gold panda mollies that we added 3 weeks ago. The rest of them we have had for at least a...

Got a balloon Molly yesterday with a tank that I brought and previous owner told me that she is pregnant. I am confused as it is so hard to tell with balloon mollies. Please have a look and tell me what you think. If she is pregnant how soon do you think she will drop? Thanks in advance below...

Okay, so today the worst case scenario happened in my tank.    I have a half moon red betta that I've had for a while, and after lots of researching I finally decided on getting some mollies.    I got two dalmation mollies and two yellow ones. I placed them in when I knew I wasn't working and...

Hello all.  This may or may not sound like an emergency, but I've never had this happen.   Heres the back story, you can skip it, but it may help determine whats wrong:   Okay, so I recently got 5 mollies from my LFS and they said they'd be fine in a 10 gallon.  Next day theres 30 fry, and 30...

  Hello,      So I just purchased a 35 gallon tank online and it should be to my house in the next 3-5 days.   I bought it to upgrade my mollies so I can actually let them breed a little.        My question is: can I just put my current mollies and frys (fries, IDK  ) into a bucket of sorts...

Okay, so, Question one: I have 5 mollies and about 30 fry in a 10 gallon tank.  I'm currently looking at my options which look like either a 37 gallon tank, a 35 gallon bow front, a 20 gallon, or *maybe* a 40 gallon.  The most likely are either the 37 or 35 gallon ones because I can get the best...

Hey there, So, to start off, Hello, My name is Fallyn and I'm 15.  I've had fish all my life.  My dad bought me my first 5 gallon tank when I was 5 or 6 and I've loved fish ever since.  I've had guppies, angels, cichlids, barbs, sharks, tetras, betas, a few species from my local lake that are...

Hi everyone! I currently have 3 tanks, a 35L with 6 platys (male and female), 20L with 4 mollies (all female) and a 10L one with a male betta.   We first had the platys and mollys in the 35L tank, and decided to separate them by getting a 20L tank, when we started noticing small fry swimming...

I have a female molly that is pregnant or was.. Iv recently discovered she has lost movement in her rear end and looks like fluff is growing on her back and looks like something is eating her skin. She is in a birthing net as she looked like she was going to give birth we recently removed the...

Hi! Sorry it has been so long since I last posted. I've been quite busy with doctors appointments, new medications, and all around anorexia recovery!    I posted in the Livebearer forums on August 26th concerning my Adult Female Molly. I thought she was pregnant but hadn't had any babies yes...

Is my mollie pregnant??? It is dark under neath but i got it from the pet shop afew days ago... i have a breeding box and i have put into there just incase, i have researched it and it seems like it is, can anyone help???

I have a 5 month old female hi-fin molly that has been deteriorating over the past couple weeks. She's gone from being active, always swimming with my tiger platy and female guppies, to staying by herself with her fins clamped at the top of the water. Her swimming is becoming more shaky with...

Hi, I'm new to mollies. Bought this sweet girl at our local pet store, she seems a little on the bigger side. Could she be pregnant? Sorry for horrible pic quality.

Hello!   As some of you know, I bought a Gold Dust (Petco called it "Golden Panda" but oookay) Molly and named him Buzz. Turns out Buzz was a girl and was VERY pregnant and gave birth to 14 healthy baby fry on August 1st. =]   I only had a 2.5 gallon tank at the time, and quickly rushed out and...

Hi everyone, one of the most common questions asked is "is my guppy/platy/molly/swordtail pregnant" In this thread I will attempt to explain very simply how to tell she is pregnant and how to estimate how far along she is with the aid of pictures, week by week. I will be using guppies as the...

I'm about 4 weeks in to a new 110g tank that will be brackish but I started off with a couple of mollies to cycle it.  I was out of town for a couple of days about a week into it and when I came back, one of the mollies had given birth and there were a bunch of fry swimming around the tank.  I...

Hi,   Please help me to identify the gender of my Molly bought last week, I'm new into hobby, LPS did not know if it was male or female! Thanks  

Hey guys   From these pics can I presume that my white molly is not pregnant anymore? She was a proper balloon before lol but shes still got the black spot on her back.   Also is my odessa barb pregnant?! She seems fatter and she chasing the odessa male all the time.   Thanks

So I have my first batch of molly fry,   they were born while I was away, most probably on sunday (2 days ago) and I came back to find them.   Managed to find 5  and transferred into a floating fry trap. No idea how many were born, although the molly mummy I suspect is quite a young one who's...

Hey guys   I am seeking for some advise. I have attached 3 pics for u to look over.   Is my molly pregnant? If so how many weeks do u think? Also my rainbow fish has now got a black stripe on the side. Is it normal?   Thanks!

hi i got a set of dalmation mollies that have given birth twice. my fiance and i are looking into keeping a few more alive this go round since the first 2 didnt really have many left (1st had 5 second had 3) we bought the lee's birthing tank and i noticed that online they say she cant really...

I have a 45 gallon tank, and I was thinking about trying to cross mollies and guppies. I have heard it is possible, and I would  like to try it myself. Does anyone have any advice on, like, how to encourage them to spawn? Anything related would help. Thanks!

I recently bought some dalmation mollies as well as a few other fish. However I am pretty new to owning fish as I have only ever owned a betta or goldfish when I was younger. I think my molly is pregnant but I am not completely sure and was hoping someone would be able to help me and confirm...

I really do hate to ask as I know it's continuously asked. Sadly, I'm not even new to mollies or livebearers in general, but it's been a while and I'm quite rusty when it comes to identification. And I'm new to black mollies all together. I'm used to looking for a gravid spot, never really paid...

I've had my Black Sailfin Molly since 24th Dec 2012 now and it shows some rather odd behaviour. Basically it chases my platies around for ages trying to eat their poo. It's not nipping at them or showing any aggression, it just seems to be after their waste. Is this normal as I've not seen any...

These are some pictures of my new balloon molly.  Her stomach seems bigger than the others and her behavior also seems different.  I'm not really sure what a gravid spot is supposed to look like.  I was wondering if anyone can tell if she might be pregnant.

about a week and a half ago i notice my balloon molly had ich so i moved her into a quarntine tank and treated her and the main tank was fine none of the other fish got ich and i moved her back into the tank and she is fine now how long should i wait before adding new fish. it was not a very bad...

I picked up a molly at the pet store two weeks ago. When I got her I was told she was probably pregnant, becasue of her size. I waited a week and then placed her in a breeder net - this was a week ago. Now she is not really moving at the bottom of her net. I'm not sure whether I've just...

Hi everyone! Yesterday I bought 2 guppies (female) and 2 mollies (male and female) for my new tank. It has been cycling for over one month without fish and since then the ammonia levels have reached zero. Yesterday the fish were happily swimming around, however my Black Molly seemed to be the...

Hi, I am not sure if this is an emergency "yet" or not but since we are newbies and I do not want to wait too long or take any chances, I am posting this here. We got a new aquarium last week for our kids and it is barely 10 days now. It is a 5 gallon aquarium and we put only two fish to start...

Hello fellow fish lovers, I filled out the questionnaire and hope that someone knows what my gold molly has. Basically there are two big white spots on the connection of body to fin tail. I looked up white spot sickness (ich) and fungus but the white spots seems to be too big for ich and not...

I've only been keeping fish a little while so I'm definitely rather new. I noticed my black female bubble Molly swimming in circles about an hour ago. Other then a kinked tail she seems okay. It seems more like her tail is stuck to the right. All of her fins are moving fine. She's not hovering...

Some people may not see this as an emergency but it is quite urgent, I have a female balloon molly, another different type of male molly and an angel fish all together in a tank, they've been getting on fine for the months they've been together but all of a sudden my female balloon molly has at...

Meet Purdy, my female Dalmation lyretail molly. Recently, she has been suffering from what appears to be pop-eye. She has white film and fuzz around her right eye along with the eye protruding from the socket. This is the second time that this has occured the past thirty days. It went away when...

Hello! I am new to mollys and have just purchased my first last week. I have noticed that since i have had my molly its belly has been growing! She started out playing around with the other mollies but the past 2 days has been hiding in the plants or other ornaments i have! Not sure if that...