what should i do with my baby molly fishes will a catfish eat it if so were

[Mahtab S]

should i keep it ??? please help!? my molly fish gave birth couple of months ago and now she is pregnant again so what should i do with my catfish fighter fish and the mother molly fish please help!

[Martin H]

get a smaller breeding tank for the mollies until they grow bigger

[S C]

see if you can get a breeding net or tank. you can pick them up for about £3. i have 2. 1 to keep my fry in and another for the female to give birth to the fry... hope this helps.

[Michael]

Unless you get another tank there is little you can do.

The traps described above work but they turn the tank in to something less-than-attractive. It's a good short term strategy, but hopeless in the long term.

Sight unseen, the catfish is probably less of a threat than the fighter and the female molly.

You don't specify how big your tank is, but if you have the room go out and invest in a few clumps of fine-leaved plastic plants and put them all in one corner at the back of the tank. The plan is to provide the young fish with a LOT of hiding places; they will be able to move about in the dense cluster much quicker than the fighter or the mother fish and dive through gaps that the bigger fish can't get through.

In short, give the fry a fighting chance to survive close to the way they are designed to survive, by taking refuge from the greater world around them until they're equipped to venture out.

Remember to drop some very finely ground flake food in, even if you don't see any fry.

Give it a week or two and in all probability you'll spot some small mollies wandering out to explore.

If you don't, too bad - for a fish life is a b***h, and then get get eaten...

[rin]

Take the baby fish out. Put them in a separate tank or container with plants. If the catfish won't eat it, the molly will!

Since your molly is pregnant again, I'd take her out and isolate her. It's best to put her in a tank with lots of plants so that if she gives birth and you're not there, they have a hiding place. From experience, nets and other breeding materials don't work very well. For one, the fries don't always stay where they're supposed to and end up being gobbled up by the other fish.

You can keep the fry anywhere. Just find an empty tank or something. One gallon should do, depending on the amount of fry you have.

If you don't have an empty tank, just take a empty milk gallon and cut the top off. Wash the cartridge really well and fill it with water from the aquarium, not tap water. This is because the fries are small and a sudden change of water and environment will stress them out. You want to cause as less stress as possible. You don't need a pump or anything. Just put some live plants in there to create oxygen for the fry.

Hope that helps! Good luck!

[CitizenErased.]

First thing you should do is buy a baby net (it's a large square net that goes inside the tank) where you can keep the pregnant molly - this way when she gives birth all the babies are in the net. (the preg molly can stay in the net for a week or so, and you can buy the net at your local fish store). once the molly has given birth, take her out of the net otherwise she will mistake the babies for food and eat them. keep the babies in the net until they are fully grown, then let them into the big tank. don't let them into the tank until they are fully grown otherwise the other fish will eat them and they could get sucked into the filter.
ask at your local store about all this if your not sure.
hope this helps.