My Molly Just Gave Birth And I Have A High Level Of Ammonia

So my tank is a few months old and my molly just gave birth and I just got my water tested and it came back as high levels of ammonia my question is will this kill my baby mollies?
Also any advice on how to get ammonia out?

 

Hey, hate to be the bearer of bad news but chances are it will kill them or at least damage them badly.

My advice is to find a container of at LEAST 2l (the bigger the better) fill it with water and the right amount of water conditioner to remove chlorine and heavy metals, and keep the fry in there. Feed them very very very small amounts of food a few times a day and do a large (25-40%) water change with fresh tap water and water conditioner every other day.

As for your main tank, I suggest the same amount of water changes to lower ammonia levels. Once the ammonia levels in your tank have dropped to 0 and stayed that way for 2 weeks then you can move your fry back in.

Sorry, and good luck

 

The addition of the new mollies has probably sent your tank into a minI cycle so you will have to treat it as a fish in cycle as the bb grow to meet the new levels.

Removing some into another tank will help because molly are very dirty fish and you'll want to separate the males and females as soon as you can identify which is which any way.

Use prime and water changes to cycle it or use tetra safestart to cycle them both.

The good news is that mollies are tough fish. There's someone on here who had all his fish die from ammonia because he hadn't cycled the tank but the female molly have birth before dying and the babies came through the cycling tank ok.

Whether or not yours can will depend on how well you can manage the ammonia during the new cycle and luck but if any fish can survive it, mollies can.

 

The amount of water changed will be the amount you reduce the ammonia.
So a 50% water change on a tank with 5ppm ammonia will yield 2.5ppm. Another 50% will then yield 1.25ppm and one more @50% will get the tank under 1ppm
While cycling with fish in tank I would not let the ammonia go over 1ppm.
Prime will convert the ammonia to a non toxic form for 48 hours so dosing every 2 days is also recommended.
TSS is not a substitute for prime but may be useful . I would expect it to raise some of your other levels though which may not help the fish ?

 

Okay thank you all I really want them to survive

 

How big is your tank?

It seems pretty unlikely to me that a bunch of newborn molly fry would cause an ammonia spike in any decently sized, cycled tank.

I'm thinking you have other issues in the tank. Anyone more experienced wanna chime in on that?

 

How big is your tank?

It seems pretty unlikely to me that a bunch of newborn molly fry would cause an ammonia spike in any decently sized, cycled tank.

I'm thinking you have other issues in the tank. Anyone more experienced wanna chime in on that?

Sorry I think you misinterpreted my post
I was dealing with the ammonia before the fry was born but I just needed to know how to save my fry from the ammonia. Also my tank is a 30 gallon

 

Oh right then yeah I definitely misunderstood sorry!

I agree with the advice given already on that topic! Water changes and Prime! I think with the tiny babies you'll want to make sure the new water is pretty close to the temp of the existing water because they're gonna more sensitive than adults. Good luck, mollies are my favorite!

 

Okay thank you

 

Okay so just wanted to update y’all because y’all helped me so much all of the babies survived I took all but two to my LFS and they found great homes for them and my tank parameters are perfects thank y’all again