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sorry for the off topic post, lol but i just fely like sharing this

i have been keeping fish for the past 9 years, mostly cichlids, but i recently started getting back into the smaller freshwater fish (platties, mollys, swordtails...etc)

anyway, on of my favorite types of mollys, a silver lyertail, which i have had for 7 months now gave birth to 25 little frys tonight, and i couldnt be more happier, lol

heres the mom after giving birth
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and 2 pics of the same fry, this was was the only one o could get a macro of, lol
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cute little buggers eh' ? lol
 
mollies are small?...I don't know but I wouldn't consider a 6" fish small...lol

Cute baby though :)
 
small compared what i usually keep ;), plus the short finned mollies that i keep only grow to about 4 inches in captivity, the sailfin mollies are the ones that get big
 
hehehe :) Quite large compared to my little guppy/endlers crosses, cherry barb, and killifishes...lol Oh...and my little saltwater diadema pseudochromis. lol

Are you keeping them brackish or fresh?
 
good deal :) bugs the crap out of me that basically all petstores sell brackish animals as freshwater...mollies and fiddler crabs specifically...
 
StinaUIUC said:
good deal :) bugs the crap out of me that basically all petstores sell brackish animals as freshwater...mollies and fiddler crabs specifically...
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i cannot stand that either

i went to a pet store here a few months back, and they were trying to lecture me on how you are never supposed to put salt in molly tanks, and that it could kill swordtails, i just had to laugh and leave, good thing my father knows lots of people in the fish bussiness, lol
 
Aw, makes me miss the mollies I used to have. At one point I had literally hundreds of them--kept in 100% saltwater with my clowns and banggai cardinals. I wish I hadn't stopped breeding them. It's become very difficult to find good specimens around here.
Congratulations Dan!
 
I manage a fish room in a pet store and own 3 of my own salt tanks for my own leisure. :) I don't have nearly the knowledge i do on geckos, but i try my hardest to make that room shine.

And who DOESN'T know that most livebearers like a little salty taste to their water? ;) I love it when i see Mollys in salt tanks, just gorgeous.

I do fancy my salt tanks something special though. I am keeping Harlequin shrimp, a pair. Neat little shrimp!
 
Harlequin shrimp are so nifty!

I love my little reef tank (10 gallon). I have a bunch of different corals, my little pseudo, a cleaner shrimp, a porcelain anemone crab, a fighting conch, and a bunch of snails/hermits. It's tough to beat the beauty of a nice reef tank!...although I do love my fresh and brackish tanks too...lol
 
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