Friday 6 March 2015

Mollies Fish

Classification:

 Kingdom: Animalia
 Phylum   : Chordata
 Class       : Actinopterygii
  Order     :Cyprinodontiformes
  Family    : Poeciliidaetropical
  Genus     : Poecilia
  Species   : p.sphenops
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Types/Species:
1.Marble Lyretail Molly
2.Harlequin Sailfin Molly
3.Golden Sailfin Molly
4.Gold Dust Molly
5.Gold Doubloon Molly
6.Black Molly
7.Balloon Molly
8.Platinum Lyretail Molly
9.Dalmation Molly
10.Black Lyretail Molly
11.Black Sailfin Molly
   These are the most common species in the aquarium but total species are more than 40.
About:
            Mollies are warm water fishes Mollies is 75-80°.Their comparatively undemanding livebearers that are often kept by novice aquarists. There are two main forms of molly: the sailfin mollies and the short finned mollies. Short finned mollies are more commonly kept than sailfin mollies. Among the short finned mollies you will for instance find the extremely popular Black Molly and the Gold-dust Molly.Molies are omnivorous animals so they eat the plants and insects and algae particles in water.
Difference between Male and Female:


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Breedings:
                  they are livebearer for some time, you will quickly find out how much they breed. Any molly fish can breed with another breed of molly. This makes for a crazy successful breeding platform. Any female can hookup with any male. Being livebearers, they do give 'live birth' to their babies. Females are usually always pregnant and thats how you can cosmetically tell the difference between males and females. That and fin differences.

The parents will feed on their newly born young and that makes for a nice snack. It's pretty disturbing but you get over it. If they didn't eat their own young.. there would be molly fish everywhere I think... It's not uncommon to see 1-3 babies swimming in your tank that somehow survived the birth and feeding of the newborns while you were at work all day. Molies male eat eggs and newly born baby so seperate the eggs and baby.
















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