New at this...

[ragdoll]

A few months back I decided to start my own 10 gallon tank (my mom has a 45 gallon). Last Sunday I bought two balloon mollies and today while I was cleaning my tank I realised I had three babies in there. What do I do? I have taken them out and placed them in a 1.6 gallon starter tank from Wal*Mart, but I don't know what to do with them. Please help!

 

[go_dawgs]

raise them with live food, like baby brine shrimp.. and they should grow fine if you want to keep them you can or if you want to get rid of them you can sell them to your lfs (local fish store)

 

[homebunnyj]

You should probably get some fry food really soon; feed finely crushed flake food till then. I think they need to eat really often, like four or five times a day. You will need to change the water a whole lot too. Did you use water from the 10gal to fill the 1.6? Does it have any kind of filtration? I'm pretty sure the water quality is very important. I say 'pretty sure' because I'm expecting my first batch of fry to be born soon (have two pg guppies).

 

[ragdoll]

Yes I did use the water from my 10 gallon, and it has an undergravel filter system.

Thank you both for the input. ^-^

 

[FroggyFox]

check out the livebearer forum...Lotus wrote a great FAQ about them...


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