How do you know when your Balloon Molly is pregnant?

The stomach extends quite a bit and often you can actually see a tiny baby molly inside. It is quite obvious when a molly is pregnant once you know just what you are looking for.

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When their stomachs get super big, unless you get a balloon belly molly. On lighter fish you can look for a dark spot near their rear ends. If you look you will see that the dark spot get closer to their butts every week until they give birth. Good luck!

Yes, it can! I have researched quite a bit on freshwater aquariums as well as molly breeding and from my personal experience owning a gold dust molly and balloon mollies, they can interbreed within their species, my gold dust male impregnated my balloon molly, and her fry turned out to be a cross between the two types of fish, which were adorable! You want to check for signs of her being pregnant, their should be…

There are actually type of fish named balloon such as Balloon Molly. It is made through selective breeding of mollies that retain the balloon gene which results in a basically fat looking molly.

If your balloon belly molly is a female the anal fin will be rounded. If it is a male the fin will be more of a point.

Fish do not experience pregnancy, they lay eggs.

Mollys can breed with any other type of molly fish

In dropsy the scales stick out from the body like a wood rasp. If your female molly has been in a tank where there is a male molly present then it is almost certain that she is gravid (pregnant).

Males have a pointy thing near it's butt called a gonopodium, they're also a tad skinnier.

Look at the stomache of the molly. If it is fat and has a black spot in the middle, it is pregnant. Quickly take her out of the community tank and put her in an isolated tank with a few plants. Once she has popped the babies out, put them into another isolated tank. Feed them molly fry food that is really small.

Yes, well... when you buy it, it may already be pregnant, you never know. But if you want it pregnant after you get it, then it may be harder. They can if they are happy enough or are having hybrid fry.

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If it has been with a male it will be pregnant (gravid) The thing to look for is a large tummy and sometimes there is a dark spot visible just in front of the ventral fin.

You know when a silver molly fish is pregnant as her stomach will swell very much like a humans. The stomach will swell to a moderately large size and will give birth (to live young) usually over night or when there is no audience. The mother will usually eat her young so only a few remain.