KyWildFish

About month ago my mollies gave birth and the fry have been in a breeder net since. I was wondering how fast they grow to about adult size (or big enough to leave the breeder net). They haven't really grown that much yet and I tire of cleaning the net and looking at it hanging in my tank. Any pros have info on this?

Chief_waterchanger

Rate of growth depends on many factors. Some of these factors are:

Quality of food
Quality of water (frequent waterchanges help because fish give off hormones that inhibit growth, so the waterchanges keep those from building up.)
Genetics

Two or three waterchanges a week and a nice variety of high protein and high veggie foods would go a long ways towards speeding up their growth.

1 month or so should see them large enough to go in with adults safely. 3-4 months should see them to nearly adult size, and 6-7 months should see them to full size.

KyWildFish

sounds good. They still look a little small to go in with the adults right now.

Allie

Yup.
Food quality and water quality are the key factors to getting a good growth rate on all species of fish. Since you are doing frequent water changes you can feed the fry more food than when adults. I feed my baby/juvie cichlids 4-6 times a day. No bloating ever.

Fishies-for-me

I was going to tell you to bump the temp up a degree or 2 to speed growth but I checked your info and saw you already are at 80 soooo scratch that...lol