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Take em out to a grow out tank till they get larger... Barebottom the tank if you have to to prevent them getting stuck.

Are you sure they're "stuck"????? One common, survival technique of fry is to bury themselves in the gravel... Thus, keeping themselves safe from the larger adults.... I know for a fact, that when fry are born in my 55 gal community tank they bury themselves and they bury deeply! We've had several fry manage to make it to adulthood by doing this.... Right now, we have about 5 Dalamation Mollies living in the gravel! (The only time they're seen is when we do our weekly vac/water change!)
Given time to reach a more non-edible size, the fry seem to make the transition smoothly ---- from gravel living to joining the actual community......Hope this helps!

To thine own self be true...

Put in a bunch of plastic plants for the fry to hide in. put them very close together so the adults have trouble getting amongst them.

Good luck, Mike

They will hide in plants, also do you have floating plants.

they sell this short grass in a lot of fish stores for about 10 bucks. i put them in my tank and i have some molly fry that hid in it and i have some smaller goodieds that tend to hang out in there. it's a life saver.

I have found that the fry jam themselves into the gravel to hide also. I look for babies and move them to a mesh net. I'm new to having fish so I was very excited to finding babies. A couple every few days. In my tank since I don't have the gravel level, I have slopes and holes in there, I found most of my babies hide just under the rim of the bottom of my decorations. Also along the inside of the tank dug into the gravel you'll see two little eyes. Looks like they are dead but they are not.

Get a mesh net breeder rather than a plastic breeder box and then your problem is solved.

HTH