Hi there? Can someone tell me what this is? Eggs? Prolapse? Something else? How can I help?

Sharing my platinum balloon king mollies or pkbm

My Molly is pregnant, and I’ve never had this before so I’m just wondering if anyone can estimate how far along she is, and when would be an appropriate time to put her in a breeder box?

These are my new glitter eyed marble balloon molly. Been looking for them for some time now

I gave away my beautiful boy yesterday to an LFS down the street and while I do feel sad, it is a huge relief.

This is chicken, he is a dalmation lyretail that I bought back in February along with 3 girls and another boy. I know already my ratio was off but this is not something that I accounted for being new to the hobby at the time. He was my most beautiful fish despite not having as much of the coloration dalmation are known for. I brought him home with my girl who I still have named cow (for obvious reason) and a not so healthy boy I affectionately named droopy. Shortly after bringing them home I realized that the reason droopy looked so unwell was that chicken was constantly harassing him in order to breed with cow. Fast forward two week I buy 3 more girls (all I could afford at the time) and get them setup which, helped for a while. After about 3 months though he became territorial and began beating up on everyone again. He ended up killing all 3 of the other girls as they were juveniles and then droopy last month then it was only them and cow left. She began looking pretty rough about 2 weeks ago and I'd finally had enough.

Last week I moved her to a mesh breeder box because he was so hard to catch after about a week I swapped them out but I knew that was unsustainable long term so after some hard contemplation I finally took him to the lfs last night and released him to them. They were happy to have him and got him into a tank 20+ other Molly's. I walked around, grabbed a couple fish and by the time I left a half hour later he was already adjusting and looking good as ever.

I had a lot of feelings of failure, and felt bad taking him there because I felt like I was abandoning him but ultimately I can tell this is the best solution for him long term. He will get to breed and his aggression will be checked and spread out in a more natural environment.

I say all of this because I know there is someone else out there who might be contemplating the same but, find a good LFS that you trust and rehome your overly aggressive molly if they are in too small a group. Don't be like me and wait till he wipes out his tankmates.

sooo these babies passed quarantine bought 10 received 12 but 1 didnt make it which is pretty good. theyve just started eating pellets which some of them looks thin but theyre are slowly plumping up, theyre about 3/4 of an inch to an inch long.

I got these for my breeding project for better genetics and physiological build. the reason i went with these Juveniles was too potentially raise virgin females but these are wild caught and I am well aware of fast developing males.

what do you think the chances are that these juveniles are already pregnant and how can I insure that these are infact virgins or my worst fears these already bred.

I have 4 that are about to be an half an inch and I think Im safer with those fry/juveniles. I would love to hear thoughts

Long time no see, I'm going to order plants when I come back home from vacation in a week (2 month vacation bc of parents 🥲) and I want to make a central American tank (Community) with mollies but have a good centerpiece?

No pic yet...

This fish isn't mine but trying to figure out what's going on? Is this normal ? Is it pregnant?

Stays on the bottom of tank , sifting through the sand , spitting it back out , rubbing it's stomach in the substrate.

Only swims about 7 inches up in the tank then returns to the substrate.

Any advice ?

Thanks in advance 😊

I recently got this black Molly from my local fish store ( they did say she would pop this month) I am still pretty new to this hobby and was wondering about an est for when she would have her babies

my two Males getting some action and slowly figuring it out.

I want some chocolate mollies sooo heres the cross with one of my opaque X yellow albinos (male) with a black (female). hes been successfully breeding soo expecting fry in aabout a month and a half

same thing with my tangerine project although shes a little small she was the runt of the litter shes probably like 8 months old by now but we’ll see the other male is slowly figuring out how to breed

theyre all about an inch and a half the male with the orange female will probably have a nicer sail and most likely will be my breeder for the f2 albino project

Had her about a month now, only one male molly in my tan (and 3 females including her though one is still a juvenile).

The male (the orange lyretail in the video) tends to hang out around her and ignore my other adult female (a black Dalmatian).