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I know the rule about waiting to introduce the fry into the tank until they are big enough not to be eaten, but can anyone give me an estimate as to how long this takes? A couple weeks? A couple months?

I know it varies from tank to tank, so if someone could just give me a guess, I would appreciate it.

It Really Depends On What You Feed Them or Whats The Biggest Fish There

With Me It always takes More than it Should.

In Case you have a molly only thank I guess Maybe 4/6 Weeks.

In The Same BAtch Of Fry Some Develop Faster than the others I usually Separate The Bigger ones From the little ones Using Two Breeding Traps. its quite usefull when you have like 85 Fry in a time.

in 4/5 Weeks You should Have putten the first ones
Try first with 3/4 and if they manage to be safe for a day put another 3/4 That Way You should Bee able to know if their all gonna be ok before its too late


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It will take about a month, if the fry are well fed & that means 4 times a day.


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I actually left mine in the main tank and they did very well. Molls popped a few out every few weeks and there were plenty of fry swimmin aroung with nobody else in the tank chompin them. Molls may have sucked one or two down as she was droppin them but very very soon the whole tank was alive wiht mollie babies. There was a lot of large gravel they immediately sank into with lots of hiding places. Heck, I was still finding them 6 weeks after I thought they were all moved.

with my molly fry the general rule of thumb that i was told was to at least make sure the smallest fry is bigger than the biggest fish's mouth in the tank.

i have some pretty large sailfins and the biggest is about 5 1/2 inches and he doesnt mess with my fry after i let em grow out for a month and a half... 6 weeks from the date they are born, and it is true thats some will grow faster than others. i dunno why, but just make sure the smallest one is bigger than the biggest fishs' mouth.

just keep alot of hiding places like live plants around, and they should be fine.

good luck,
Chelle




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Thank you all for the advice. The next batch will get left in the tank. This being my first, I wanted to see if I could raise them