Mollie Started Having Babies...

[KRamgren89]

yesterday during our water change we noticed a few babies in the tank, obviously from our pregnant mollie cuz the others are not far enough along. not sure how many she had cuz unfortunately we didnt notice until half way thru our gravel vac that there was babies so not sure how many we lost. but we moved the mollie into a 5 gal tank with the 2 fry we rescued and she had 1 more in there, she is stilll REALLY fat but in 2 days time there is only the 3 babies...will she lay her other ones?

 

[Keeper Of Cichlids]

She may do or may not, she will most likely eat them if shes in with them.

 

[KRamgren89]

well we are watching very close cuz as sooon as she has the rest we are going to move her back into our other tank, but its been close to 2 days im gonna guess since she had the first, and my husband thinks we flushed a bunch but i dont think so, im really careful when we use our gravel vac cuz we have soem little corys in our tank, and i noticed these 2 babies floatin around then she only had 1 more. what happens if she doesnt lay them? will she die? and since its been a few days should we just move her back into the big tank and try and watch for babies to pluck out?