What Was The Biggest Number Of Fry You Have Ever Gotten?

[fry_forever!]

That is, in one shot, from one mother? My grand total was about 30, from my platy, and most of them didn't survive because of a disease.....

 

[OldMan47]

This girl gave me over 30 just a few months ago. They all did fine as far as I could tell but I never have counted them very carefully. Her next drop without contact with a male in between was only between 20 and 25.

Mom and some fry on day 1.

Fry only the same day.

A few of the fry 4 weeks after they were born.

 

[fry_forever!]

Awww!
They are so cute! The mother doesn't bother them? She still looked a little fat in the first picture...
How do you keep the babies so healthy? Mine always seem to dye off from some external parasite that I can't seem to treat fast enough.
Thanks for sharing!

 

[OldMan47]

I start with a healthy tank that has no disease and a healthy female. The only thing in the tank is mother and eventually the fry. As long as the female is well fed, the fry are fairly safe as you can see from the day 1 picture. She will occasionally chase one for an inch or two but gives up right away. I feed all of my mollies a diet that is heavy on vegetable protein and I have hard, high pH water. The diet is intended to be a molly diet, not a general fish keeping diet, and the water is what I have in my tap. I buy a spirulina flake that is quite heavy on algaes including spirulina and feed it as often as I feed regular tropical flake. It makes a good healthy diet for common mollies as well as many other common livebearers. It is not an ideal diet for things like angels or rasboras though. The fry get what their mother gets, they are living together after all.

 

[fry_forever!]

I start with a healthy tank that has no disease and a healthy female. The only thing in the tank is mother and eventually the fry. As long as the female is well fed, the fry are fairly safe as you can see from the day 1 picture. She will occasionally chase one for an inch or two but gives up right away. I feed all of my mollies a diet that is heavy on vegetable protein and I have hard, high pH water. The diet is intended to be a molly diet, not a general fish keeping diet, and the water is what I have in my tap. I buy a spirulina flake that is quite heavy on algaes including spirulina and feed it as often as I feed regular tropical flake. It makes a good healthy diet for common mollies as well as many other common livebearers. It is not an ideal diet for things like angels or rasboras though. The fry get what their mother gets, they are living together after all.

Wow, that's interesting. I wish I could have that much success with my tanks. By the way, how big is that tank?

 

[OldMan47]

She gave birth in a 10 gallon but normally lives with her mate in my 120 community tank. The fry got moved on to a 55 gallon to grow bigger shortly after her second drop. They are now about 1 1/2 inches long and still growing strong. They are sharing that 55 with a half dozen juvenile angels and a few bristlenose plecs that I got at a club auction.

 

[fry_forever!]

She gave birth in a 10 gallon but normally lives with her mate in my 120 community tank. The fry got moved on to a 55 gallon to grow bigger shortly after her second drop. They are now about 1 1/2 inches long and still growing strong. They are sharing that 55 with a half dozen juvenile angels and a few bristlenose plecs that I got at a club auction.

Wow! That's awesome!

 

[acguppy]

She gave birth in a 10 gallon but normally lives with her mate in my 120 community tank. The fry got moved on to a 55 gallon to grow bigger shortly after her second drop. They are now about 1 1/2 inches long and still growing strong. They are sharing that 55 with a half dozen juvenile angels and a few bristlenose plecs that I got at a club auction.

Wow! That's awesome!

My biggest batch, was 30 from a molly, and 30 from a guppy.

 

[fry_forever!]

She gave birth in a 10 gallon but normally lives with her mate in my 120 community tank. The fry got moved on to a 55 gallon to grow bigger shortly after her second drop. They are now about 1 1/2 inches long and still growing strong. They are sharing that 55 with a half dozen juvenile angels and a few bristlenose plecs that I got at a club auction.

Wow! That's awesome!

My biggest batch, was 30 from a molly, and 30 from a guppy.

Yeah, my platy had 30, then my guppies had like, 10 each day, so I ended up with 50 or more.