Having a group of floating plants in the corner of your aquarium will promote rearing outside of the breeding tank.
Marble molly mating.
A female sailfin molly fish will give birth to 10 to 140 live young molly fish but not at the same time.
After owning molly fish or any livebearer for some time you will quickly find out how much they breed.
They follow each other around and then begin to mate.
Just like the sailfin molly the lyretail stands out because of its fins but this time it s the caudal fin.
The aquarium should be planted densely as possible or have a thick algae mat.
Dalmatian lyretail mollies breeding.
Female sailfin molly fish are larger than her male counterpart and just like their cousins they do not lay eggs.
Being livebearers they do give live birth to their babies.
Any female can hookup with any male.
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.
The marble lyretail molly is a livebearer that requires a spawning box in a 25 gallon or larger breeding tank.
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.
This makes for a crazy successful breeding platform.
Any molly fish can breed with another breed of molly.
They start to actually begin to mate at 0 39.