HELP! How do you take care of molly fry!?!? - Fish for the Planted Aquarium

Akaizhar · 07-21-2008, 11:02 AM

Any suggestions, i dont wanna be the one to kill my first "child" :P

Ebichua · 07-21-2008, 11:58 AM

There's no special care for them. They'll readily eat crushed fish flakes and take whatever their parents eat.
Pretty low maint.

jazzlvr123 · 07-21-2008, 04:18 PM

yup just keep feeding your fish and you'll be fine

ranchwest · 07-21-2008, 06:58 PM

Mollies do best with some salt in the water, fairly frequent water changes and frequent small feedings.

Chrissy · 07-21-2008, 07:03 PM

The adults will eat them so if you can seperate them from the adults or at least give the fry a place to hide in like plants.

bigpaa · 07-21-2008, 07:29 PM

Put in some floating plants for them to hide in. Most of them will survive unless you have some nasty predators in there.

vancat · 07-25-2008, 09:32 AM

So- did ya get any fry yet?

Akaizhar · 07-25-2008, 09:51 AM

Only one, then the mom got fin rot and she hasnt dropped anymore, though i did cure her of her rot.

wrkucera · 07-27-2008, 04:25 AM

Have you tried hatching baby brine shrimp? I did this for my guppy fry and found that the guppy fry group did extremely well in regards to mortality and health during the first 4 weeks. But these were guppies. Can this work with molly fry? I don't see why not but I haven't tried to raise molly fry either yet.

Kets · 07-27-2008, 01:59 PM

Maybe feed it something with hard-boiled egg yolk?