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How long does it normally take to determine sex of molly fry? i dont see any gonopodiums on ANY of the 40-50 fry i have.. all varying in ages, oldest being 5 months youngest being a few days........ they all have "female" fins as far as i've noticed...

PLEASE TELL ME I WONT END UP WITH 50 FEMALES>@>#@$%>$^%>&

Chelle:%)

*Chelle*
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I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious...

They develop as the fish matures

Don't panic

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

They SHOULD show up earlier than five months, though! I think my oldest fry are about two months, and I've already separated out four males (young mothers, first drops, so the numbers were small).

I made a post a while back on the fry I was calling a [link=late bloomer]http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/Livebearers%20Lane/51313.html" style="COLOR: #00A0AE[/link]... he developed WAY past the time all the others did, but eventually turned out to be male...

I've heard that temperature and/or water conditions can influence the sex of fry. I know my tank was up around 82 when my current batches of fry were born, because that was the room temperature (silly summer weather), and most of them are female. *shrugs*

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

as was said...it should be 4-5 mos....but..i had the same experienced and still do...that in less than the given time, around 2-3 mos, i can differentiate the male already.

thats good,because instead of swiching groth in that goupodium for breeding, they are getting bigger.
>>>the bigger the fish the more fry they will have<<<

Every fish is difeferent from each other so it can varie from 4 months to 1 year, believe it has happened to me. And you can see that on other livebearers such as swordtails( the females can even change sexes).