A female sailfin molly fish will give birth to 10 to 140 live young molly fish but not at the same time.
Marble molly mating.
Being livebearers they do give live birth to their babies.
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.
Dalmatian lyretail mollies breeding.
This makes for a crazy successful breeding platform.
One of the many options for keeping the fry safe from adults is to keep a breeding box in your fish tank.
Just like the sailfin molly the lyretail stands out because of its fins but this time it s the caudal fin.
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.
She will commonly gestate throughout a period of a year giving birth multiple times.
Any molly fish can breed with another breed of molly.
Having a group of floating plants in the corner of your aquarium will promote rearing outside of the breeding tank.
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.
Female sailfin molly fish are larger than her male counterpart and just like their cousins they do not lay eggs.
They start to actually begin to mate at 0 39.
The marble lyretail molly is a livebearer that requires a spawning box in a 25 gallon or larger breeding tank.