Babies

[rfisher]

Hi All,

Last night my Silver mollie had approx 10 babies . She kind of caught me a little unaware. I have some powdered fry food but they really didnt seem all that interested in it this morning. I am going to get some Liquid fry food lunchtime. Just wondering what people would recommend or is there really only one or two suppliers.

Thanks, Rich

 

[confusion]

I think it sometimes takes them a day or so before they're really interested in eating. I feed mine the liquifry for about the first week, then the hikari first bites powedered food until they're big enough to eat flake food and frozen worms, etc.

 

[PaulEbs]

You can always try hatching some brine shrimp eggs, molly fry love chasing the little wigglers about!

 

[KeeperOfFishyPeace]

Small brine shrimp is a good idea but you can also crush flake food to an almost powdery consistency. It work for guppy fry.

best of luck

 

[Annastasia]

I've never used Liquid fry food. Molly fry are fairly big as Livebearer fry go, so I go right for small live/frozen foods, crushed flakes, and occasionally fry food. They'll eat pretty much anything. Though sometimes they are a bit scared to eat if you are right there, so you might want to back away until they become more comfortable.

 

[rfisher]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. It must have been me watching them that put them off becuase as soon as I got far enough that they couldnt see me they wolfed it all down.

Thanks,

rich