KyWildFish

So last night I was checking on my tank dropping in the bi-weekly cucumber for my pleco and snail when at the last moment I saw something tiny scoot under my driftwood. My mollies gave birth! I had bought a breeder box earlier that day thinking it was about time they gave birth so I immediately pulled out all the decorations I could and spent the next few hours carefully netting 16 new fry. They are all different colors which means that there are some hairy genetics or a previous father (all my mollies are silver). While I was searching the tank for them I discovered where my snail went a few weeks ago, 3 baby apple snails! They arent the parasites as they are too big and look just like their mom. So the grand total as of now for new babies in my house are as follows:

5+ baby dwarf siberian hamsters
5 3 week old dwarf siberian hamsters
16 mollie fry
3 baby apple snails

My house is turning into a pet store, lol.

TFA101

That's alot of babies. Small home buisness may I suggest

KyWildFish

I am already trying to organize the "sale" of the oldest hamsters (much to my fiance's dismay). I think I will see how the fish/snails fair and I might be able to just give them away. Selling out of my home is a long way off as I hardly have the room to run a business as of right now. Wouldn't want to compete with Dino and CWC either , they smoke me in terms of capacity and experience.

I will say its pretty cool to have fish happy and healthy enough to spawn/breed. They are live bearing animals but the first go around went pretty bad because of a foolish fungal infection (premature births). The more I learn about fish the better I feel about being their guardian.

COBettaCouple

Something good in the water over there?

Lucy

I was thinking the same thing. lol

Congrats on all the babies.