What can I do to facilitate my fry survive?
I recently found (actually my friend's mom pointed it out to me) 1 baby Dalmation Molly in my 8-gallon bi-Orb fish cistern. I have 1 platy and the mother molly in there. I get the molly a few days ago and it must have been pregnant from the store. It wasn't too plumped but it was acting unusual, often pointing straight up as if it were "standing" and must own given birth one night and I didn't notice any fry. I've heard that platys and mollies enjoy a tendency to eat their newborn babies so that must have happen to the others. That one that I found looks too big for the others to eat now but it is small enough to be impossible to fish out! Luckily, mollies savour algae so the baby has been nibble stuff off of the sides of the tank. But is that enough? What can I do to relief it survive??
The best item you can do is provide it with a place to hide (they sell fry bed at pet stores) and allow nature to take its course. They eat what they can find and appear to do well, but truthfully, a single fry's chances aren't that great.
Fish out the bigger fishies to make sure it doesn't eat it and put it contained by a smaller tank if you can for a week or so, give time for the tot to get a bit bigger and stronger. then put the other fishies back surrounded by, and from there, it's nature. Just make certain there's always extra food to keep the bigger fish from getting too hungry.
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you can put some live and fake plants surrounded by your tank.or put some big rocks for them to hide.but i prefer to put the fry in other tank to increase survival rates and give them better food.it is really enjoyable to see a lot of fries growing up.hehe
If what you said is true and you can't fish out the baby,them it is best to take out the other fish and put them in a separate reservoir. If you don't have another tank to put them in next try to buy some plants, rocks or ornaments that it can hide under.
If there is adequate algae then that should be fine for it to eat, but if here isn't try to crush up normal fish food into minuscule portions for it to eat (definitely don't buy that liquid for fry because it is a short time ago a waste of money and makes your fish tank cloudy).
Even after adjectives the precautions it could still die. Fry are just so fragile that some just don't survive.
I hope i all works out for you :)
love her
Answers: Yes, the algae in the tank is enough for the toddler molly to eat. Their tummies are tiny and they don't eat much at one time, but they do eat frequently.
I wouldn't bother going to gain that Liqui-Fry store at the pet store. It fouls the water terribly as people tend to over nurture baby fish.
You might want to stop at the pet store and get a few bunches of Anacharis/Elodea, Cabomba or Hornwort plant. Baby molly can nibble on that as economically as hide in it.
Eventually, you can feed the babe-in-arms some crushed up flake food. (*TINY* amounts, ok??)
Best of luck!
You can try to put a couple of things (like small shells maybe) for it to covering under- big enough for the baby but too small for the bigger fish to get underneath. They will cover under things too. I had molly fry try to hide between the small gravel surrounded by my tank when I had mollies. It should be able to find ample food- especially if you grind up a tiny amount between your fingers when you feed the big ones flakes. I hope it make it but don't be too shocked if it doesn't (especially with it just mortal one)- but I wish you luck and hope it does!
