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Not many though cause they were eaten! I thought they had plenty of hiding places being that they are in a 55gal tank. but I guess not. Today I've seen like 2-3 survivors..I think they are platy fry cause my molly still looks preg. I saw at least 3 being eaten up but I know she had more than 6 fry!

A tip I learned: Don't turn the lights off in the tank if there are fry in there! They will go up to the top of the tank, out of their safe hiding places in the plants and then when the lights come back on they will for sure be eaten before being able to reach their hiding spots. Learned that the hard way

You need to have some floating plants aswell, so the fry will hide there. I always keep some floating Cabomba & Duckweed in my tanks, especiall where i keep the Mollies.

BTW. Congratulations.

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I have some giant fancy plant bamboo floating on the top, but its not the greatest cover.

I think that leaving some Cabomba floating would be the best thing. Hope you'll get some & see more fry very soon.

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Congrats on the fry!

I've had luck with floating anacharis to hide fry

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My fry used to hide in the cracks of the pile of flat rocks I had in my tank. It was such a great hiding place that they nearly overpopulated my 29 gallon tank.

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I have had success using floating hornwort. So much so that I am constantly giving fish away

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