Help With Newly Born Fry

[kissthis26]

Hi i'm new to the forums. I'm here because my fish that i bought 2 weeks ago have had babies. i have 1 black molly, 1 dalmation molly, 2 swordtails (1 male, 1 female), 3 sunfire platties, 3 cory cats, 2 black neon tetra, 3 angelfish, and 3 zebra danios in my 55 gallon tank. this morning i found 11 black babies, 2 orangish colord ones and one black and orange one that looks a lot like my swordtails. however i have no idea who gave birth or when. my black molly is a female and from what i can tell she gave birth to all or most of the babies. it took me several hours to catch all the babies and put them in a 10 gallon tank as they were being chased and eaten by my angels. but now i have no clue as what to do. should i put my black molly in there with the babies? what should i feed them? what kind of lighting do they need? i made sure to fill the 10 gallon with water from my 55 gallon so they wouldn't be shocked by the water change. What else should i do?

Help!!

Thanks,
KissThis

 

[azzman]

If you cant or dont want to raise them, just put them back
in your community tank, the angels will make short work
of them. Your live bearers will breed non stop so you need
to get rid of them somehow.

 

[Jen_S]

Feed them either finely crumbled/ pulverized tropical flake food or go buy fry food (basically powdered fish food). I feed my molly and guppy fry 2-3 times day and I provide hornwort (a floating plant) for them to hide in but you don't have to if there are no predators present. You don't need to put the fish that you think gave birth in with the babies as they don't help rear the fry and may eat them. I have my guppies in a 10 gal tank with lots of hornwort because the adults are there as well as 2 dwarf frogs. The 3 molly fry that I have are in a breeder net (trap) in my comunity tank also with hornwaort to keep the angel from stressing (it keeps picking at the netting). This is also an option if your 10 gal tank is not cycled. A breeder trap has the advantage of not changing the water parameters the fish were born in and it protects the fry from other fish as well as from being possibly sucked into the filter (depending on how strong the filters current is). I hope this helps. Livebearer fry are pretty easy to care for as long as the water stays clean and they have food!

 

[kissthis26]

i wish to keep some of them, and my friend would like some too when they are bigger. i'm not sure i want to keep them all, but as this is my first experince with fry and am not sure wether Bear(my black molly) or one of my other female fish gave birth i'm not sure what kind of fry i have.

 

[azzman]

Just feed them up until there a bit bigger then keep the best ones,
try and keep it in check otherwise youll end up overrun, they can
keep having fry even if there is no male present, they store sperm.