Molly Baby, Help!

[mac_man_luke]

Hello


My black mollies just had a baby, what should i do to protect it? feed it etc?

HELP!

[joz]

Haha! :biggrin:

don't worry,if you have a large fine net they can live in that for a while.Or if your tank is heavily planted again don't worry.
Just make sure your filter intakes cannot be accessed by the babies.
Live bearers babies are generally large enough to be fed very finely crushed flake or whatever dry food you have around.
Outside of that you can buy newly hatched baby brine shrimp.

Congratualtions dad,where are the cigars :biggrin:

[mac_man_luke]

Cool thanks

Any idea what to use to cover the filter inlets?

[joz]

What I would suggest is a large sponge,something like a car wash sponge.A new one that has never had soap used with it.Really the sponge should be quite large if your running a big cannister.
Just poke the total pipe inlet area through a small hole made in the sponge.
This should let enough water through it and no babies,hopefully.

[mac_man_luke]

In the tank i have the mollies in i only have a internal power filter (only about a 35L tank)

[joz]

The most ideal filters for breeding are air driven sponge filters,I think your gonna be a bit stuck with internal power filters.

Some how you've really got to get a snug fitting sponge around the inlets,with absoloutely no gaps for fry to get in.
Good luck.

[mac_man_luke]

Well i picked up a small floating holding tank today which looks like it will do the job well :)

[joz]

Great, the kids can sleep well tonight :)


Dad!

[mac_man_luke]

Well now i have about 20-30 fry

excuse the dodgy pic, taking photos of fish is hard

[Sloory]

Hmmm where the pic mac man?

I had platty's in a 2ft that had plants in it waiting to be planted in my 3ft.
The platty had fry while i was planting the plant into the 3ft and low and behold.
My 3ft had a platty in it!
The egg must have been on one of the plants and survived the trip.
He grew up quick and very healthy. :rolleyes:

[mac_man_luke]

hmm here it is

[Marc]

I use what's called a fry saver from Rayonne Aquarium here in VIC. Apparently an old guy makes them for them but they are absolutely ideal. I have about 50 Afra Cobue fry growing out in one of those floating in one my Frontosa tank. I'll try and get a pic as you might be able to make something similar.

[joz]

Just yesterday I saw a DIY fry saver.
It was made out of 5 litre ice-cream tub with most of the sides cut away to look like windows.To these were attached plastic fly wire.Glued on with fish tank silicon.
To float the tub some polystyrene strips were attached also with silicon..

Simple...TA-DAH!!

[Sloory]

lol very creative...... well it IS actually :rolleyes: