Marble Molly Mating

Having a group of floating plants in the corner of your aquarium will promote rearing outside of the breeding tank.

Marble molly mating.

One of the many options for keeping the fry safe from adults is to keep a breeding box in your fish tank. Being livebearers they do give live birth to their babies. The aquarium should be planted densely as possible or have a thick algae mat. This makes for a crazy successful breeding platform.

Any female can hookup with any male. A female sailfin molly fish will give birth to 10 to 140 live young molly fish but not at the same time. They follow each other around and then begin to mate. After owning molly fish or any livebearer for some time you will quickly find out how much they breed.

If you plan on raising the molly babies to adulthood then you will have to choose from a couple of options to prevent the female molly from eating the newly born fry. It s most distinctive feature is the large dorsal fin which is taller and runs from behind the head to just before the caudal fin. They start to actually begin to mate at 0 39. Female sailfin molly fish are larger than her male counterpart and just like their cousins they do not lay eggs.

She will commonly gestate throughout a period of a year giving birth multiple times. This variety is bred in lots of different colors and patterns. The marble lyretail molly is a livebearer that requires a spawning box in a 25 gallon or larger breeding tank.