Marble Molly Mating

This variety is bred in lots of different colors and patterns.

Marble molly mating.

One of the many options for keeping the fry safe from adults is to keep a breeding box in your fish tank. This makes for a crazy successful breeding platform. Female sailfin molly fish are larger than her male counterpart and just like their cousins they do not lay eggs. The marble lyretail molly is a livebearer that requires a spawning box in a 25 gallon or larger breeding tank.

Being livebearers they do give live birth to their babies. A female sailfin molly fish will give birth to 10 to 140 live young molly fish but not at the same time. The aquarium should be planted densely as possible or have a thick algae mat. 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.

They start to actually begin to mate at 0 39. 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. Dalmatian lyretail mollies breeding. Just like the sailfin molly the lyretail stands out because of its fins but this time it s the caudal fin.

Any female can hookup with any male. They follow each other around and then begin to mate. After owning molly fish or any livebearer for some time you will quickly find out how much they breed.