My saltwater Molly had babies!! Need advise

[NewDisign]

I woke up and turned on the quarintinen light and I looked and all these little fish(30-50) swimming like there's no tomorrow and a few eggs tyat were floating around. I quickly tried to catch all of them and get them in a breeder basket. They didnt look to good in there so I put in a bunch of decorations and dumped them in the tank again. The decor's purpose is to keep them away from the intake. But now I don't know what to do. Any advise would be appreciated because I want them to live and this is my first fish to had babies.

Note: she was pared with a male Molly in the display tank but never guessed they would be a mating pair. It was a complete suprise to me because I didn't know she was pregnant!!!!!

The tank is a 12 gallon JBJ w/ standards and is dosed in copper. The tank inhabitants are listed below:
There is a very young blue tang, a yellow tang, a 6 line wrasse, and female Molly. (the two tangs have a very VERY close relationship to each other which is highly unusual, but adorable how the swim side by side so close together. I'm talking along the lines of centimeters from eachother and they commonly bump each other just as an added cool though)

 

[GrendelPrime76]

this has to be a joke

 

[LeLutinBanni]

Everything was fine....Until i read this LOOL

he tank is a 12 gallon JBJ w/ standards and is dosed in copper. The tank inhabitants are listed below:
There is a very young blue tang, a yellow tang, a 6 line wrasse, and female Molly.

Your tangs are forced to have a VERY VERY CLOSE relationship in that goldfish bowl

 

[BFG]

Tang police! Tang police! Where art thou Tang police?!?

 

[rick12]

molys dont lay eggs!

 

[fishesfriend]

I had babies and the other fish left them alone if they don't get sick or have a defect(one of mine tried to eat a hair and it slowed it down alot and the other fish chased it, He is in a breeders net now.

 

[billsreef]

With Mollies, any pair will do. Best to rear the young in a separate tank, otherwise they become fish food for the other fish. They will eat finely crushed flake food or pellets readily.

It would also be worth researching a bit about the tank space needs of Yellow Tangs and Hippo Tangs. Even if small enough now, they will rapidly outgrow a 12.

 

[NewDisign]

Thanks for the suggestions. As for the tangs, they live in a 50 gallon tank but are in quarantine because they get sick constantly. They are the best of friends in the 50 gallon as well. So don't criticize me about cramping them in a small tank.

The tangs are both very small so they can be in this tank. The yellow tank is just under 2 inches and the blue tank is just under 1 and one quarter of an inch. The six line is about 2/3 of an inch and the molly is actualy the biggest in the tank at 2 and a quarter inches. I did my research and there just fine in that tank, in addition, I have two bubblers in the tank. One runs a uv filter ment for 20-30 gallon tanks and one after that in the moter compartment that run 24/7 for PLENTY of oxygen. Again I've don't my research and I know what I'm doing!

As for the molly, they were defiantly eggs. No dout about that, but nothing ever came from them so they could have never developed into a fish.

 

[billsreef]

Couldn't have been Molly eggs, as they are live bearers and do not lay eggs.

 

[Ruskin]

I once saw an advertisement for a fish tank that wasn't labelled in gallons, it was labelled in the number of fish you could put in the tank. This thread reminds be of that posting.

ps. it was 5 really big fish if anyone cares

 

[scottwhitson]

Why do you think the tangs get sick constantly!! THEY ARE IN A 12 GALLON TANK!!!!! Even the 50 gallon you talk about is to small to house them for long. You can keep a dog in a cardboard box if you wanted but it would be sick constantly just like you say your fish are!! I am sorry if this is mean but you haven't done your research if you have those fish in a 12 gallon tank.

 

[firsttimefisher]

Had a few questions about my salt water mollies, how do I know when my female is pregnant? And when should I separate her from the rest of the fish? Here are pics of the 2 females in question?

 

[MAVX]

[Mod Edit: This post was completely unneeded.]

 

[Benar]

[Mod Edit: Instead of replying just report.]

 

[MAVX]

[Mod Edit: This post was completely uncalled for.]

 

[shifty51008]

This thread is also 3 years old

 

[Dino]

firsttimefisher - please feel free to post your question in a new thread . This thread is quite old and not a good example of good husbandry. I've also removed some posts - lets engage the brains before posting as the posts that were removed were not needed.