How Do I Help Make My Mollies Pregnant?

Question

I have 1 female Black Molly, 1 female Silver Molly, and 1 male Black Molly. I already know that they cross-breed but they are taking to long to mate. Does anyone know how to get them to mate???

Answer 1

There shouldnt be any problems with your fish mating if you are certain that you do have a male in with your females.

The females are pregnant for a long time (about 28 days) before they actually give birth so they could be pregnant without you realising.

I own one female dalmation molly who went on to produce 3 litters of offspring by herself over the next 3 months!

Answer 2

Well, they will mate after like...5 minutes, they breed fast. They also mate fast, in only a few seconds, so you probably will not see it. They have probably already mated and fry will be here in about a month.

Answer 3

Maybe they just don't like each other. Or they don't like you. Sorry. Or they could be infertile, literally, no fish in the bowl if you know what I mean.

(My friend says you should just rub them together for a while :)

Answer 4

Since livebearer including guppy,platy,molly,swordtail and other are mature at 3-4 month (can start to mate among themselve).

And yield up to 40 young and sometime over 80 young every 3-4 weeks,within a year so I don't think there will be any difficulty to breed them.

I suggest you to put 3-4 female with 1-2 male in a separate tank (breeding tank) to avoid the fry being eaten and more young will survive.

Keep the mollies or other livebearers in a well planted tank and ensure the water is not too soft,I believe in a couple of week you will have a lot of baby fishes.

Important :

Beware the livebearer such as guppy,molly,platy,swordtail and others may even eat or consume their young.

Try to separate the mother and fry using a breeding tank/trap.

Here are the photo of the breeding tank:

http://www.petmart.co.nz/images/stock_bi...

Tips:

Feed the female with mix diet of food like food pellet,worm and supplement with green food and vitamins to get more yield or fry.

Hope the information may solve your questions.And good luck with the breeding project

Answer 5

Raise the temperature in the tank to about 81 degrees