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Post by elaine on Aug 16, 2016 20:55:19 GMT
I started an aquarium several months ago, because I love fish and find watching them to very peaceful. I had a pair of Dalmatian Mollies since the beginning, and added a yellow platy and a golden panda Molly a month ago, and I have about 15 dwarf shrimp. I went to sit and watch the tank after lunch and saw two babies. Obviously from the golden panda Molly. I ran ran to the aquarium store and got a net breeder box, hoping that the babies would still be uneaten by the time I got back. I'm fairly certain that my female Dalmatian Molly has had babies and that they have all been eaten before I was able to see them. So, here they are, safely ensconced in their breeder box.  |
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Post by Patter on Aug 16, 2016 20:56:47 GMT
Awesome. Our tank has had many Molly babies, etc. My DD thinks her Molly is pregnant now. The babies are so fun to watch as they grow. Have fun!
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Post by chaosisapony on Aug 16, 2016 21:01:28 GMT
Aww I miss the days when I had fry to take care of. I hope they do well!
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Post by elaine on Aug 16, 2016 21:02:55 GMT
Awesome. Our tank has had many Molly babies, etc. My DD thinks her Molly is pregnant now. The babies are so fun to watch as they grow. Have fun!  I have been told that as long as you have a male and female Molly together, she will be pregnant almost continuously. The baby fry are almost all eye at this point. I have only one male Molly - the two other mollies and the platy are all girls. I hope that I can get some of the Dalmatian babies before they are consumed. I'm finding that Mollies are huge eaters. |
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Post by Nink on Aug 16, 2016 21:21:24 GMT
Did Bob Barker teach you nothing? Have your pets spayed or neutered.  How fun to watch them grow. |
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Post by gillyp on Aug 16, 2016 22:13:23 GMT
Congratulations mama! Or should that be grandma?
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Post by elaine on Aug 16, 2016 22:16:03 GMT
Congratulations mama! Or should that be grandma? I'm a grandma! At last!  I keep checking the tank to see if she has any more. Mollies are notorious for giving birth here and there... My optimistic side is hoping that more are to come and not that they disappeared.  |
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Post by elaine on Aug 16, 2016 22:17:56 GMT
Did Bob Barker teach you nothing? Have your pets spayed or neutered. How fun to watch them grow. Yeah, my spayed-at-six-months dog is glaring at me right now. 1) she is jealous of the fish and 2) she wants to know why I cut out her lady bits, but not the fishes'.  |
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Post by mimima on Aug 16, 2016 22:46:45 GMT
Our Molly and her descendants bred like rabbits.
Enjoy
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Post by elaine on Aug 17, 2016 13:28:56 GMT
We are up to 5 small fry right now!
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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Aug 17, 2016 15:23:28 GMT
I love a fish tank. My Dad had several fish tanks when I was growing up. I've had several, even a couple at a time. It's been many years since I had a tank, I've been thinking about starting one again.
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Post by elaine on Aug 17, 2016 15:29:26 GMT
I love a fish tank. My Dad had several fish tanks when I was growing up. I've had several, even a couple at a time. It's been many years since I had a tank, I've been thinking about starting one again. My dad had a saltwater tank when I was young. I then had a freshwater then a saltwater tank during graduate school. I love saltwater tanks, but they are a ton of maintenance. I've been wanting a tank again for a couple of years now, and am really glad I went ahead and started one. Things have changed a bit with all the liquid water treatments and liquid good bacteria available now. And powerheads with under gravel filters are out. A lot of things came back to me, but I have also been learning a lot. |
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Post by Lexica on Aug 17, 2016 15:46:05 GMT
I share your love of aquariums. I have had a couple over the years. Mostly when my son was little. We used to spend hours with all the lights in the room off and just the dim light of the aquarium on, watching the fish and whatever else we had in the tank slowly moving about. It really calmed him when he was stressed out. His favorite were the African frogs. He loved how they swam like mad up to the top to gulp air, then floated spread-eagle like a parachute back down to the rocks.
Congratulations on your grandbabies!
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How fun to watch them grow. 
