what can new born baby mollie fish eat?

They can, but the flake food must be crushed to a powder consistency for them to eat it. You also need a varied diet for optimal growth and health.

Newborn mollies will take a day or two to "eat up" the yolk sac they were born with. After that, they can and will feed on micro-organisms usually found living in planted aquariums. If you don't have live plants, then you will definitely need the crushed/powdered flake food for livebearers. Their diet should MAINLY be spirulina (which is green algae), but frozen baby brine shrimp and rotifers (micro-organisms) will work well as they are quite small as a protein supplement. As they grow, you can upgrade them to frozen daphnia (water fleas) and eventually brine shrimp, blood worms, and mysis shrimp. The spirulina flake should be their main source of nutrition, as vegetable matter is the most important part of a mollie's diet.

oh wow my molly just had her babies this morning too :)

do you have them in a breeder box or a net? you might want to do so if you plan on keeping them. it you dont want to get one or cant afford it i made my own.

you need

one disposable and clean tuppaware bowl.

(i used a glad brand one) you want it to be kinda thin because you will be sticking holes and things into it.

one or 2 coat hangers. cut to fit over the top of the tank with wise with a couple inches to spare.

a pin or needle

and something to cut the cat hangers with.

dont worry ill put a link with the finished picture on here.

now it wont look pretty but youll be able to save some babies.

take your dish and put 4 small holes at the top of the dish to put the coat hangers through.

the coat hangers will hold your dish in place so it wont tip or float into your filter.

then tread the hangers into the holes and adjust it so the dish will be in the water with an inch to spare at the top.

now take your pin or needle and poke holes along the sides but not on the bottom. this will allow the water to flow through it gently with out taking food with it, and keep your babies the right temperature.

now this should bee all set! here a link to the pictures of mine for reference.

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i have 1 female dalmatian molly, 1 orange cream male molly, a panda bottom feeder, a dwarf african frog, and now 20 new babies :)

mollys tend to have babies every month! thats a lot of babies. if you want to keep any of your future babies, keep you contraption.

you will need to feed your babies a lot! 3-6 times a day. and it has to be powdered food.

take a plastic baggie and some of your fish flake food and grind the food with ur fingers until it is a powder.

or take your food put it on a plate and grind it with the back of a spoon.

you only need to feed them very little when you do, take a tooth pick and barely dip the tip onto the water and touch it to the food. this way you only give them a little but of food at a time.

you can take the babies out and put them in the tank when these requirements a meet:

the babies are big enough to not get eaten by the other fish

or sucked into your filter

remember the water should be around 80 degrees F.

good luck and enjoy

Crush up flake food, baby brime shrimp, or microworms will work.

Very interesting question, hopefully we'll get some good replies

they can eat crumbled up flakes(make sure it is like powder)

all fry eat brine shrimp. feed them some breed crums

YES REALLY TINY FLAKES YOU VCAN ALSO FEED THEM BOILED EGG YOLK CRUMBLED FEED THEM 3TO4 TIMES DAY

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