Please use this topic to post your molly photos. I'll leave it stickied so it appears at the top of the posts.
Thanks,
Mike
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Please use your own photos, and not material from the internet.
Please post your photos as attachments, rather than links.
While your compliments on the photos are really appreciated, text-only posts will be removed after a while to keep the gallery pictures-only. If there is a discussion you do not want to loose, please start it again in a separate thread.
Thanks,
Armadillo
Last edited by armadillo; October 15th, 2007 at 02:58 AM.
This is my serial rapist male dalmatian sailfin. He never leaves the ladies alone. I guess it's just his nature, but what a pain! Oh, and for some reason he doesn't feed at the surface. He just waits for what little uneaten food there is at the bottom.
This is my mystery male. After posting him on the ID section of Fishlore, opinions are that there is the following molly types in him: swordtail, common, albino and sailfin. He's a little subdued by the other male, but starting to have his way with the ladies too. P.S. He was sold to me as a female platy!!!
This one's my absolute favorite. She's a female dalmatian balloon molly. She has the best temperament ever. She is really socialized to humans and is always the first one to check out what's happening outside of the tank. Adorable. Impossible to take pictures of other fish because she's always the first to swim up to me against the glass.
OK, she's the mother of fry I've just had. She's been poorly lately, but is on the mend thankfully. She's huuuge and even bullies the males when it comes to food.
- Here's a couple of the fry. These fry were from my previous Dalmation Molly, whom we got pregnant and didn't know it. Unfortunately she died halfway through birth leaving us with 9 living fry. . . They are growing along nicely and they are so used to me they swim to my fingers if i'm "in" the tank for any reason.
I was looking at the whilte lyretail again and she's gorgeous.
Here's my 2 newest finned companions: meet my white and pale orange female mollies. They live in a 72L with the dalmatian male.
The white one has the greatest personality. She follows me around and eats from my hand. She's not the brightest bulb in the pack, though. She keeps eating gravel, then spitting it out. Duh!
The orange one is a right so and so with food. She'll attack the other fish if they get anywhere near the surface at feeding time. Seems to be an orange molly trait in my tanks! Oh, and I could only get a picture of the orange on 'in action' as my male doesn't seem to want to leave her alone... Prudes, avert your eyes!
OK, here's an experiment we've tried. I've posted one of them under the 'fry picture' thread, but the adults do it too, so here goes. We had some spare mini-jar ornaments so we figured we'd try these for our molly fry to hide in. After 2 seconds of the things being in the tank, loads of the fry explored them, attracting the attention of more fry. Result: loads of the bigger fry tried to squeeze in there at the same time, causing a huuuuge mess of tails and heads all trying to go in and out of the mini-jars. This little circus started 3 hours ago, and is still going on! The funniest thing is the adults then started to try to squeeze through the jars. Sooooo funny.
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