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February 16th, 2009
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| | Fish Bum
| Babies!!!!!!
since the water change and the tank being sorted my 2 female mollies are having babies, wont be long now  yay | 
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February 16th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Congatulations! It amazing what your fish will do when they are happy!
Remember that fry (babies) are even more at risk from bad water than adult fish are.
What I tend to do when I have fry in the tank is to change out 10% of the water in the tank every other day and add something called Stress Coat+ to the water i am putting in the tank as well as the normal AquaSafe that I would add anyway.
Both these are made by Tetra. If you can find something called Prime where you live use that instead of the AquaSafe but I have never seen it in any fish store in my area so I am begining to think its only available in the US.
Just a quick additional thought Sam. Do you have space to fit a breeder net into one corner of the tank? If you do it would be worth catching the babies and putting them into the net to stop them from being eaten in you tank for the first few weeks.
This is the type of thing I mean http://www.forpets.co.uk/product.php?xProd=786
Last edited by Jonah; February 16th, 2009 at 08:19 AM.
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February 16th, 2009
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| | Fish Bum
| yeh i have one of them double breeding boxes, so mum can drop babies in the bit below and there safe  i have stresscoat+, im going to do little water changes every other day until i get my bigger tank, so there happy, im so excited!!! its my black molly and an orange one with black on it thats having them, just a matter of time i guess, il be uploading pics aswell soon | |
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February 16th, 2009
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| good, we must have pics ITS THE LAW !!! LOL | |
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February 16th, 2009
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| lol, il be sure to take one of my fighter too, hes beautiful! thank you for all your help escpecially you shawnie, without all of your advice my fishies wouldnt be alive, thank u all | |
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February 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| i can't wait to see the pictures
I like babies | |
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February 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Mentor
| Pictures Please....
-Matt  | |
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February 19th, 2009
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| theres still no babies, they have like a white tube and it keeps opening and closing, they are really huge now, the hole is fairly big too | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| my orange molly has had her babies today dont know how many as my husband can only see 2 but we have two other mollies due to have some any time now im really excited to see what colours the babies will turn out i know 1 will be black and 1 looks silver will update you as soon as we find out. I will try take some pictures when thare out more.
when will i find out what colours there are | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| congratulations! can't wait for the pics!!!
i think it can take a month or two for their colors to really start showing, but you'll start seeing a little coloration pretty soon | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| Another Congratulations.  I love raising any baby fish they are all so cute. That brings back the days when I done the whole molly baby raising thing. I also can't wait for the pics.  | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| my black mollie is having her fry now, we have about 13 so far, but about 11 yellow balls unfortunatly, shes still quite fat though looks like a few more to go, 3 are really big, just the big white mollie to go soon as they are out and about il take some pictures of them all together, im so excited! never seen one give birth before its brilliant | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| oh whilst im here, my betta fish's chest has gone really big, my other fish are fine and well, just him, his chest is really big and hes grouchy, do any of u no what that is about? | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| when you say his chest what do you mean exactly? could you post a photo?
my best guess would be bloating, how much and what do you feed him?
also you would get more attention on this if you started a new thread | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| yeh il try to take a picture now, hes been in the same spot for days n puffing up at everything and is huge, il show u shortly | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| can i transfer my babies into my other tank with the other babies? | |
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February 26th, 2009
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February 26th, 2009
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| he looks a little bloated, i would not feed him again today, and tomorrow give him a small piece of de-shelled pea (about the size of his eye). that should help with the bloating.
what are you feeding him? | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| just tropical fish flakes, but my husband was treating them to frozen bloodworm | |
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February 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| ah okay, well the flakes are most likely what has caused the bloating. i'd get your betta on a good quality pellet diet like hikari or atisons, flakes don't have the nutritional quality that a pellet has and that should help things immensely | |
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