dalmation molly fish breeding

You must be knowing that all molly fishes are same species so you can breed any one of them with any other Molly fish. Breeding is very simple task. You need one male dalmation molly and few females with good water conditions. The number of females should be more then the males because males like to chase female dalmation molly, this makes females more stressed. She can even give birth to several batches of babies over a year even in absence of males because of their sperm holding capacity. Before hand you should also arrange home for new babies else avoid their breeding. If female dalmation are stressed then they may give birth to unhealthy babies or immature babies. So try to put lots of hiding places for females.

The gestation period of females is of about 30 -40 days. Females will start becoming more rounder as the time pass. When the female will about to give birth her stomach shape will be like \___/. Then females will give birth directly to fries. Remember they are live bearers. Dalmation molly will give birth about 30-40 fries at a time in time of about 1-2 hrs. In my case they give to birth to 30 babies in 1 go and on the next day she again give birth to 10 babies.

Remember to shift the mother or any other fish away from babies in separate fish tank otherwise dalmation molly will eat the babies. However mother dalmation will not react to babies while she is delivering the babies but after process is complete then she may try to eat them.

You can use breeding nest if you are not having any separate fish tank for babies development. Breeding nest is made of separate net fitted on plastic structure and you can attach it in main fish tank. You can also go for breeding box which have separate chamber for fish on the top from fish fries may pass to bottom chamber where no other adult fish can access. You can put babies in it till they grow enough that is about for 1 month.In these you should have proper water circulation and steady temperature.

If you are putting them in separate fish tank then remove gravels from the tank else fries will be crushed under them and use sponge filter so fry may no got suck in any other filter. Feed the babies crushed flake food and try to avoid disturbance to them. Then 25 % of water in a week.Don't over feed them. If you are having live plants in tank of babies it will benefit them.

Difference between male and female dalmation molly

It is very easy to distinguish between male and female dalmation molly. Female bodies are more round while the male are slender in shape. The most common and easy method to distinguish is that female have fan shape anal fin while the male have more developed fin known as gonapodium. Which is used to pass sperms in female body. Also males are more aggressive and like to chase females. So it important that number of females should be more as compared to males and their should be lots of hiding places in fish tank. The above one is male and below one is female. Look at the anal fin to distinguish them. The male's have thin stick shape fin while female's fin is broad and fan shape. These body features can be easily observed in other mollies and many live bearers species.

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dalmation molly fish

Dalmatian molly is very beautiful aquarium fish. Dalmation molly have equally distributed black spots on their white body which looks extremely good. Dalmation are also called marbled molly. Like ever else molly these are profolic breeder and are good choice if you want to start breeding. As these are hybrid version of saifin molly these fish are more susceptible to disease. They do well in brackish water. Very soon they will get babies and you will be in trouble because of their spawning. Now you will need more space to keep babies.

Most of time they already pregnant before you you buy them from aquarium dealer. Females may give babies 3-4 times even seen absence of males because of their tendency of holding sperms. Dalmation molly are live bearers which means they does not lay eggs, they directly give birth to young fry. They can do well in small aquariums. Molly tends to eat their babies just after giving birth so you need to separate the babies from their mother as well as other tank mates. Sometime they try to chase other tank mates with larger fin. To avoid stress put 1 male with 2-3 female. So you require lots of hiding places or breeding net or breeding box will serve the need.

Nature : They are peaceful in nature.

Lifespan : They have lifespan of 3-5 yrs.

Food : Give them flake food with live food. They are omnivorous.

Breeding : These are live bearers(easy).

Size : Their size is about 3-4 inches.

Care : Easy

can i add table salt in aquarium

Common table salt which we use in our food is NaCl with some amount of iodine and other useful additives. Many of us had fishes who got suffer with some parasites infections like itch and salt treatment method is extremely help full to treat fishes with itch infections.

But as i have already told that table salt contains iodine and many people believes that iodine is extremely dangerous to aquarium fishes but on the other hand many people also believe that it is harmless. Actually there is controversy over this. So it is recommended to use kosher salt if you don't want to take risk. However i would like to share my personal experience with you all people.

My personal experience :

I was having 2 rosy barb and few black skirt tetras. Everything was working fine then i decided to brought 2 more tetras to the same aquarium. I went to aquarium dealer and bought 2 more. Without noticing them i added them to main tank and what i found they were having white spots all over their body and in next few days i found that each and every fish are having white spot and those poor fishes were rubbing with each other and also with filters trying to get some relief. Then i went through google and decided to add iodized table salt because it was present in the kitchen. I couldn't resist my self. I added table salt, i added 1 spoon per gallon and raised aquarium temperature to 32 degree Celsius. But everything was fine and after 4-5 days i found that itch had been disappeared and every fish is living fine till now. So finally i would suggest that you can add it at your own risk or may be i am lucky.