PrincessMaleficent
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That's pretty awesome. Mollies are really easy to bread. You can also transition them to live in Salt Water? Pretty cool huh?
I'm not positive but don't mollie fry stay in the mouth of the male? Or maybe the male carries them. I haven't studied fresh water fish in over a dozen years, but I think Mollies do something odd like that.
If you can you can you can put the fry in a seperate tank of even a tub which you suspend in the tank to it's top is at the water surface. Fry won't eat flake food so you prabably need to go to Petsmart and get special food. It's brine shrimp but really small.
Anyway if you are interested in breeding them, you can be selective and make you own style of fish, like European royalty did with dogs. But it is a lot of work.
From what I have been told the male will eat them. My aunts neighbor breeds them. I know they are easy to breed. I was surprised to see babies. Especially since we have had them for a few weeks and the gestation time I believe is like 21-30 days. I am really not interested in breeding and I know it sounds cruel but we decided if they survive then they do. Survival of the fittest kind of thing. I think if she does have babies again we will have to get another tank or the baby net thing for them.
They also eat crushed up flake as well as the brine shrimp.

I know you can get sauce in a jar, but I don't believe in that so I haven't been able to do that for 2 months. Saturday night it was tacos, good, but I've made those on the outdoor little camping stove. Last night was leftover pasta. I know, not fun, but that was b/c we went shopping yesterday for the pantry. So all late afternoon and evening I was eashing the new containers and organizing the beautiful new pantry. It is so pretty and organzied, I love it!!! Plus, I got to wash all the dishes and cups, so we now have stuff inside the house!! Tonight, I don't know yet. I haven't decided. Hopefully a magic fairy will come to the house today and set up the oven. If it is then lasagna. If not, fajitas or something like that. 








