I have a 10 gallon tank filled with 9 fish 3 males and each male has 2 females! will they breed?

Question

There are 3 sunset variatus and 3 black mollies and 3 pearl mollies!

The one male is the oldest(black molly) Can breed and he's mating with my females all the time for the last 4 months but no babies my tank is normal temperature and everything so that's not the problem! plz help!

Answer 1

Mollies are prolific breeders.  He may have been breeding for 4 months that is not to say the females were ready to breed.  It is not uncommon for females to take up to 72 days to actually have a set of fry, but once they start look out.

also, since your females are so young, they may have had only one or two and the fry were eaten.  give them time, soon you will have more mollies than you know what to do with.

Answer 2

The rule of thumb for fish is 2" of fish per gallon of water.  Mollies general are 2" long at full adult size. If you have 9 in the same tank the tank is over populated and they may breed, but they will kill the babies. If you want to breed them you need to look at having at least a 30 gallon tank.  Also the tank needs to be set up for the babies to have a place to hide, other wise they will be LUNCH.

Good Luck

Answer 3

Sorry, but the fry (baby fish) probably got eaten.  When you notice the female getting heavily pregnant put her in another tank to have the babies (or a net breeder) then put her back in the main tank.

Answer 4

the tank is to small i think if u are gonna keep all those fish get a bigger tank