My Black Molly gave birth to two different color fish?
26 May 2009
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I just woke up this morning to see my black molly gave birth to ten new fish, seven of them are all black, two of them are orange-white with black tails, and one is gray. Is it normal for a fish to give birth to different color fish or was my molly screwing the mailman?
This is very common with black mollies. The exact genetics are more than we have room for here, but there are several genes controlling color in mollies, and the combination of these genes each offspring gets will determine whether it is all black, black speckled, gold, or gray (gray is the common wild type).
As for your second question, ask your mail carrier.
I’d look to the meter reader, though, if I were you.
Fortunately Mollies of all types are extremely easy to breed and will breed freely in any aquarium. different types of mollies can be crossed together as they are all the same species. It would be very interesting to cross fish such as a Dalmation with a Black molly like you said or a Gold Dust molly with a Silver lyretail, just to see the outcome of the fry. Be very careful though, or you will be overrun with many, many babies in just a month or two depending upon how many female mollies you have.
With Mollies, you have to get to know each individual’s behavior just before they give birth so you can watch for it next time and be ready. Some females may stand out in the open and drop their fry. But most of them tend to seperate themselves from the rest of the others in the aquarium and may hide themselves in plants or other secretive areas.
That whore!!!!
It is normal. Mollies can mate several times and with several mates, and can choose when to give birth, because she stores the genetic information. Most likely, she mated with two different Male Mollies. This is normal.
its normal
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