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Hi my counciler at school gave me 2 molly fry (maby platy fry?) and I need to know what to feed and how to care for them. Thanks in advance for all help! I'm not sure if her fish is a molly or platy but i'm leaning more towards molly.

a BBS in powder form if u cant have the live ones or u can also just use an ordinary fish fud u have and just crushed it to almost powdery form that will fit in their mouth. for them to grow faster...u need live fuds for that.

I think that you can feed them finely crushed flakes.


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Crushed falkes will do. Someone here told me the trick where you put the flakes in a ziplock bag, close it, and then mush them up until they are really tiny. Crushed blood worms (freeze dried) will work too, if you plan to vary the diet.

Also, feed at least twice a day, small amounts, better would be 3 to 4 times.

How long are the babies?

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crushed flakes are good, they shouldn't be that small to need bbs.

Um there really small and I don't think there no older then a week? All ask my counciler tomarrow when she had them. I looked up pic's of Platys and Mollys and I think the moms a Platy. My counciler idin't even know she was pregnant she just poped out fry out of no were. The platy was given to her from another counciler at my school who got it at a lfs and she's had it for about a month or two. Anyways I crushed up some TetraMin tropical crisps, freeze dried daphnian and blood worms. they seemed to really like it so all just stick with that untill I can make a trip to my lfs and get somthing els. Also I was wondering if they need to be in a tank with a filter or air stone? For the moment I have them (theres 2 if any ones wondering) in a critter keeper that holds close to 1g with some fish gravel on the floor. If they need the filter or air stone I was thinking of getting one of those breeding keepers (the ones at WalMart) and putting them in my tank with my 3 WCMM's.

OK...coming from someone who knows nothing about live foods, what kind is best to feed your adult fish and fry? Are live foods better for a fishes health than flakes? OK and I am deathly afraid of worms...even if they are a millimeter. Hugely phobic!!!!!!

Ok I talked to my counciler and she said the fry were born eather on the 18th or 19th of this month. So that makes them barly a week old and they are both eating really good. Does anyone know of a good web site or anything like that that can tell me everything I need to know about the fry? I'm pritty sure they are Platy fry.