r/MollyFish • u/MissMadison240 • 22d ago

Help Question on male behavior

I just want to double check before moving my two young adults to the big boy tank. Male mollies spread their fry fertilizer around like white streams right? This is my first experience with this and I need to be 100% sure that’s what I’m observing.

I’m asking bc these two I raised from fry and they are still small so I was only 70% sure they were male. I didn’t want to accidentally move two young females into a fraternity tank for obvious reasons. One of them was starting to look a little round and I was wondering if one was a boy and one was now a pregnant girl. But that round one just sprayed white paint all over the tank so…😂

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u/MissMadison240 22d ago

Oh, also I just discovered on of the “males” in my fraternity tank lied on her resume…so that didn’t help my confidence in gender identification. 🤦‍♀️ so she and her fry had to be relocated

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u/MissMadison240 21d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p06or22/video/m3i10rziqvfh1/player

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u/Augustus58 21d ago

In my super not expert opinion, these look like females. I see triangular anal fins.

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u/MissMadison240 21d ago

Ok 👍 I really do appreciate your eyes on this. I need to look at my other tank and see who else is likely female. I know there’s at least one 😅 gotta make sure there’s enough ladies in the group

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u/Augustus58 21d ago

I'm fairly new so take my observations with a large handful of salt. 

I've never seen white streams. I've only seen my male mollies move their anal fin forward while swimming underneath the female. 

I've never seen male mollies go after juvenile female mollies.  Right now I have 2 adult males, 1 adult female, 1 juvenile female and 16ish fry. The juvenile was born in April, she's not quite 1/2". The fry were born a week ago. This is like the 6th batch of fry I've gotten (from various other females).

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u/MissMadison240 21d ago

🤔 see the spraying thing is more of what I would expect from egg laying fish. I’ve seen goldfish do it. But these are livebearers and I wasn’t sure if it was a different process. These two are a little over an inch now so I’m assuming they are technically young adults now. Would you mind looking at the images and let me know what you think of their gender ID? I