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Date Posted: 22:05:26 10/06/02 Sun
Author: queen
Subject: Re: Male/Female

>How do you tell a male from a female. My wife and I
>just bought two black female mollies. We were told by
>the pet store employee that one of them is pregnant
>and is ready to give birth within two weeks. He also
>said that when it does give birth that the females
>will not eat the babies. Which is true? Will the
>female mollies eat the babies? At the pet store they
>had over 15 to 20 black female mollies in the tank and
>they also had over 10 babies. When I was observing
>the mollies that the females were not attacking nor
>eating the babies. So which is true? Will they eat
>the babies or not? RE:the way to tell the sex of your mollies is as followed ---> mollies are "livebearers". Look for the anal fin - it's the rearmost, lower fin. On females, the fin is a normal " fan shape". On males, it is modified to form a tube, called the "gonopodium", for transferring sperm to the female. Male livebearers are usually more colorful and smaller than the females. For swordtails : the males have a fancy sword on the tail. Still, looking for the "gonopodium" tube is the only sure way to sex a livebearer. As far as the "fries" go, the female will not normally eat her "fry" , but the other fish in the tank will.

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