Wild Sailfin Mollies
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Wild sailfin mollies. Wild sailfin mollies are also bred as feeder fish for larger carnivorous fish though usually guppies are. Mollies rank as one of the most popular feeder fish due to high growth rate birth size reproduction and brood number. The sailfin mollie is arguably one of the most exotic fish available of any genus.
The gestation period for this species is approximately 3 4 weeks depending upon temperature and a single female may give birth on multiple ocassions throughout the year. The sailfin molly in its many color varieties is of considerable interest and value to aquarists and many artificially selected varieties are produced and sold in pet shops. They suffered losses but nothing like our poecilia species sailfin mollies those of you who subscribe to our newsletter got a discussion of our molly losses in the june 2019 edition.
The male mollies generally tend to be mildly aggressive. The molly can produce fertile hybrids with many poecilia species most importantly the sailfin molly. They are hybrids and maybe heterosis hybrid vigor explains.
Mike rob 18 792 views. A great fish to have in ponds as well. However mollies are perhaps the most difficult of all of the common live bearers to keep as they are the most delicate of the live bearers.
Sailfin mollies in the wild in texas duration. The wild type fishes are dull silvery in color. Sailfin molly displays and cross breed mollies at honolulu zoo duration.
One response to poecilia velifera giant sailfin molly markmako. I like the original or wild forms of the sailfin molly. November 22nd 2014 at 10 34 am.
Sailfin mollies produce broods of 10 140 live young depending upon maturity and size and females may store sperm long after the demise of their relatively short lived mates.
