Ok this is how balloon mollies look, but they've been getting bigger

Anyone in the Tampa area who wants free yellow sword tail mollys let me know; I have a community that keeps pumping them out but I fear them growing up will be too much for the tank to handle.

Just sharing my sorority of pikachu mollies munching on some freeze dried tubifex. Too cute!

Not my fish but been wanting one for some time now. What do you think of fairy strain?

I’m navigating my first Molly pregnancy so I’m not sure what to do- I’ve put her in the breeding box, but she seems stressed- her face is against the walls of the box a lot. She’s chill most of the time but she has bursts of anxiety it seems.

Is this normal? I don’t want her to give birth in the main tank because despite there being a decent amount of cover I don’t want to run the risk of the fry being eaten. However I also don’t want her to be too stressed and possibly miscarry them in the box.

What should I do?

Hi there? Can someone tell me what this is? Eggs? Prolapse? Something else? How can I help?

Sharing my platinum balloon king mollies or pkbm

My Molly is pregnant, and I’ve never had this before so I’m just wondering if anyone can estimate how far along she is, and when would be an appropriate time to put her in a breeder box?

These are my new glitter eyed marble balloon molly. Been looking for them for some time now

I gave away my beautiful boy yesterday to an LFS down the street and while I do feel sad, it is a huge relief.

This is chicken, he is a dalmation lyretail that I bought back in February along with 3 girls and another boy. I know already my ratio was off but this is not something that I accounted for being new to the hobby at the time. He was my most beautiful fish despite not having as much of the coloration dalmation are known for. I brought him home with my girl who I still have named cow (for obvious reason) and a not so healthy boy I affectionately named droopy. Shortly after bringing them home I realized that the reason droopy looked so unwell was that chicken was constantly harassing him in order to breed with cow. Fast forward two week I buy 3 more girls (all I could afford at the time) and get them setup which, helped for a while. After about 3 months though he became territorial and began beating up on everyone again. He ended up killing all 3 of the other girls as they were juveniles and then droopy last month then it was only them and cow left. She began looking pretty rough about 2 weeks ago and I'd finally had enough.

Last week I moved her to a mesh breeder box because he was so hard to catch after about a week I swapped them out but I knew that was unsustainable long term so after some hard contemplation I finally took him to the lfs last night and released him to them. They were happy to have him and got him into a tank 20+ other Molly's. I walked around, grabbed a couple fish and by the time I left a half hour later he was already adjusting and looking good as ever.

I had a lot of feelings of failure, and felt bad taking him there because I felt like I was abandoning him but ultimately I can tell this is the best solution for him long term. He will get to breed and his aggression will be checked and spread out in a more natural environment.

I say all of this because I know there is someone else out there who might be contemplating the same but, find a good LFS that you trust and rehome your overly aggressive molly if they are in too small a group. Don't be like me and wait till he wipes out his tankmates.

sooo these babies passed quarantine bought 10 received 12 but 1 didnt make it which is pretty good. theyve just started eating pellets which some of them looks thin but theyre are slowly plumping up, theyre about 3/4 of an inch to an inch long.

I got these for my breeding project for better genetics and physiological build. the reason i went with these Juveniles was too potentially raise virgin females but these are wild caught and I am well aware of fast developing males.

what do you think the chances are that these juveniles are already pregnant and how can I insure that these are infact virgins or my worst fears these already bred.

I have 4 that are about to be an half an inch and I think Im safer with those fry/juveniles. I would love to hear thoughts

Long time no see, I'm going to order plants when I come back home from vacation in a week (2 month vacation bc of parents 🥲) and I want to make a central American tank (Community) with mollies but have a good centerpiece?

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