Would My Julii Corydoras Be Eating My Baby Mollies?

[Seb Spiers]

A couple of days ago I spotted 4 baby mollies in my tank each about 5mm long. I figured these 4 lucky chaps were the only to survive and we're sufficiently large to not be eaten by my mollies.

When I woke up yesterday I had only one left (that I could find) so i put him in a new tank with a couple of plants and moved two of my Julii Corydoras in there just to try and keep the gravel clean.

Today my baby molly seems to have disapeared. I haven't found any dead fish at all. Is it possible my little baby mollie was eaten by my Julii Corydoras? Theyre maybe 2.5cm long so not very big. Whats the best way to ensure survival of baby fish?

I took a video of how big they were, hopefully you can see them farly clearly, its here on youtube (it pretty poor quality but you can just about see them in the background).

Thanks.

 

[Hawkins]

its more likely that the parents ate them. catfish arent interested in fry

you could check your filter media as they could have been sucked in and died..

 

[kewskills]

Ditto above, I never seen my corys go for my molly fry before.

 

[Seb Spiers]

its more likely that the parents ate them. catfish arent interested in fry

you could check your filter media as they could have been sucked in and died..

I didn't think the cory would, but i moved one fry into a tank with just two cory in it, now its gone. I can't see anything in the filter. If the fry died would it be likely that the cory have eaten the carcass?

 

[kewskills]

yes the corys would eat a dead fish, especially that size.

its more likely that the parents ate them. catfish arent interested in fry

you could check your filter media as they could have been sucked in and died..

I didn't think the cory would, but i moved one fry into a tank with just two cory in it, now its gone. I can't see anything in the filter. If the fry died would it be likely that the cory have eaten the carcass?

 

[Seb Spiers]

D'oh! Well I guess I'll just have to wait for my next batch of fry. I've been watching my male mate with two of my females so there should be more on the way!

Thanks.

 

[OldMan47]

There will definitely be more on the way. If you can put the female into the fry tank shortly before she gives birth it will be easier on the fry and not as many will be lost to all the other hungry fish in your main tank.

 

[Seb Spiers]

There will definitely be more on the way. If you can put the female into the fry tank shortly before she gives birth it will be easier on the fry and not as many will be lost to all the other hungry fish in your main tank.

I didnt even realise one of my females was pregnant the first time, so err, ill keep an eye out but I might not notice the next time! I dont even know which one it was.

 

[OldMan47]

There is a how to tell thread in my signature called ready to pop. It will give you some hints on how to tell when a female livebearer is "ready to pop".