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poppydog83 - Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:59 am
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Well a few weeks ago my client purchased 3 mollies for his fish tank,1 black,1 white/silver and 1 marble molly. The other day when i was doing a partial water change i discovered 7 baby mollies Laughing

I made a tempory shelter for them so they wouldnt get eaten,then yesterday i bought a porper nursery type net thing. Some of the babies escaped but i managed to get 6 back,and i have seen the elusive 7th baby but i cant catch him to put him in with the others. Any way,i know which one is the male molly (the silver one)as he keeps displaying most of the time,and i think i know which is female molly (black one) as she is forever being chased by the silver one,but the marble one im not so sure just yet. Any advice really on how i can look after the babies until they are big enough to venture out into the rest of the tank again?

honeydlc - Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:50 am
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Congratulation on your new arrivals! Sorry don't know much about fish, but please can we see some piccies? (Assuming they are big enough to photograph Laughing

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poppydog83 - Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:53 pm
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I will try and get a picture when im in work tomorrow,oh i feel like a pround parent even though they arent my fish Laughing

GerbilPunk - Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:59 pm
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congratulations!
do fish lay eggs? is that what people eat called caviar? (sorry, i didnt mean i was going to come and eat your fish! Laughing

) how big are baby fish when they are born?

Hcollie85 - Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:25 pm
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Yes fish lay eggs and i think cavier is the eyes

Heather

GerbilPunk - Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:31 pm
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ew thats disgusting, why would you eat that?! Shocked

Hcollie85 - Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:32 pm
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No i wouldnt

Heather

Jacqui_UK - Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:45 pm
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We have baby guppies and sword tails etc all the time we just leave them and watch them grow Very Happy

poppydog83 - Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:22 am
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Well i have bought a special net thing thats fixed to the side of the tank where the babies will stay until they are big enough to join the rest of the fish. I decided to put the baby fish in there as the group of neons we have keeping ganging up on the babies and wouldnt leave them alone. Im not sure how big they are when they are born as i didnt see them at first,mollys are livebearers meaning the babies are born alive.
Caviear (cant spell) is fish eggs,eugh i wouldnt eat it

Beckyess - Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:00 am
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Male livebearers have a modified fin at the bottom for fertilising the females, it is a spike so the one with the spike is a boy, however, they could well have been pregnant before he bought them!
Becky

GerbilPunk - Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:51 pm
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what have you called them? Smile

poppydog83 - Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:40 pm
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how long are fish pregnant for before they have the babies? We havent named them yet. Our thing at work is our nicknames are old peoples names,and everyone has named one of the fish after themselves. My fish is named and my name is Phyliss

GerbilPunk - Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:40 pm
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...you called a fish phyliss...?

jox - Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:13 pm
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What a great name, i love it! Very Happy

poppydog83 - Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:54 am
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Well my nans name was phyliss (i think thats how its spelt) and at the time i thought what a great name for not only myself but for a fish

GerbilPunk - Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:15 pm
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you called yourself phyliss? did you do one of those things where you change your name? do they do them in churches? Confused

poppydog83 - Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:12 am
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no,my real name is rebecca. My name at work is phyliss,its a thing we have at work. It started before i started there.

GerbilPunk - Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:10 pm
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ah i see, like a nickname? my nickname is chimp because i can do a good impression of a monkey... apparantly... Wink

poppydog83 - Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:56 pm
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yeah nicknames,strange i know,but that is us at work,we are all strange