Step by step guide to breeding molly fish at home

How to breed Mollies at the home aquarium?

Mollies being live breeders they are one of the easiest fishes to breed and are known to be prolific breeders. This article will take you through a step by step process on how to breed your mollies the right way.

Required supplies

• Adult male and female mollies

Required tools

• Fry Trap
• Breeding tank
• Fishnet

Total cost: USD 30

• Step 1 – Selecting the breeding tank

  

  Select a good quality tank which is densely planted for breeding your fishes

• Step 2 – Water parameters

  

  Set the water temperature to 80 F or less, water pH at 8 and make sure you have an attached filter.

• Step 3 – Introduce Fish

  

  Now allow your mollies inside the tank in male female ratio of 1:3 or 1:4

• Step 4 – Feeding

  

  Feed them with a healthy diet: flakes, blood worms, meaty foods, live brine shrimp, and cucumber.

• Step 5 – Spawning

  

  Watch out for pregnancy symptoms: the female’s abdomen will become bulgier and she will move to dark corners.

• Step 6 – Isolate the female

  

  Now remove you female from the tank and shift it to another tank where she can give birth.

• Step 7 – Young fries

  

  When she has given birth to the fry shift them to another tank so that you save the fry from being eaten up by the adult or you can place a lot of aquatic plants in the breeding fry or fry trap so that they can hide from being eaten up by the adults.

Result

Feed your frys with healthy food that will fit the size of their mouth and do not keep them in the fry trap for more than two weeks.