My Molly Is Pregnant!

[shadiemillcool]

HI ALL, new to the website (and breeding mollies!) I have been doing my research but i would apreciate it if someone could help me,
my molly is white so im guessing the black spot near her rear end will look more deffined. I also know that when looking at the molly front on it will look almost a square shape when ready to drop. Please can someone give me more information about feeding or anything else essential?
Thankyou.

 

[demasonisrule]

Hi, and to the site!

Mollies are very easy to breed, When I had a pair in my marine tank, they bred a couple times. Of course in that tank they were just free fish food, but Really you just need to feed them. BBS, crushed flakes, really anything that will fit in their mouth should do. Congrats by the way!

 

[OldMan47]

Welcome to the forum ShadieMillCool.
I have set up a thread where I discuss how my molly progressed from one drop to the next. In my signature area I have called it My Molly's Progress. The squared off look is not merely as viewed from the front, it is actually more obvious when viewed from the side. I can never tell when any of my livebearers are due based on gravid spot color so I ignore it.
As Demasonisrule has observed common pet shop mollies can even survive and breed in pure salt water so almost any high mineral content water will work for them. I breed mine in pure fresh water, the stuff that comes from the kitchen faucet. My water is rather hard compared to what would be best for things like tetras, but the mollies thrive in it.
As far as feeding, mollies are omnivorous but prefer a di8et high in vegetable matter. For my mollies that means I use a flake food that contains more vegetable matter than most do as my staple food. The mollies also get treats of both frozen live foods and even the algae wafers meant for a plecostomus. For my fry I simply make the flake or whatever I am feeding that day smaller so the fry can eat it. For frozen foods that fry can eat, try daphnia. A molly fry is rather large compared to most common livebearer fry so it is born big enough to take daphnia.

 

[shadiemillcool]

Ah thanks! I used to have a Siamease Fighting Fish that died about a week ago and i think i still have some frozen bloodworms left over, would that be suitable?

 

[OldMan47]

Frozen blood worms make a good change in diet for mollies but are not a good staple diet for them.