fry not moving

Zoe · 04-01-2006, 09:29 PM

My balloon molly just had 31 babies about half an hour ago. they look alive... like big, and they don't particularly look dead, but they aren't moving (a couple have uncurled and occasionally wave their tails, but that's all).
ARE they dead?

ryan999 · 04-01-2006, 09:30 PM

most likely no, baby fry always rest on the bottom after birth

Zoe · 04-01-2006, 09:34 PM

yeah, it seemed like the last time she had babies (4 weeks ago, exactly) they seemed to lie around for a while. I thought they were all dead. But it seems like they've been there an awful long time, 40 minutes or so.

ryan999 · 04-01-2006, 09:36 PM

was she stressed in anyway before birth because sometimes stress can result in stillborn babies. are yours curled up right now? how many are there? balloons are weird when it comes to birthing babies too one minute the babies are fine another they are dead.

Zoe · 04-01-2006, 09:38 PM

nope, she wasnt stressed. i noticed she was having babies so i took her out and held her in a large net while she gave birth and let the babies fall to the bottom of the container she was in - last time she ate like 10 of them.
They are 31, about half are uncurled. when i poke them a little they swim around. i guess they are just taking their time?

ryan999 · 04-01-2006, 10:11 PM

i dont know really what to say maybe they are deformed....just keep us posted

Zoe · 04-01-2006, 11:17 PM

Well they haven't done anything yet... they are still lying at the bottom. i'm going to give them till tomorrow morning, then it's flushsville!

ryan999 · 04-02-2006, 12:21 AM

thats too bad, i once had baby balloon mollies.... one day they just out of the blue dropped dead...water parameters were fine everything was fine and they were very healthy so keep us posted

Zoe · 04-02-2006, 10:57 AM

yah they are pretty dead this morning. ah well. it's not like i had room for 31 more babies!

ryan999 · 04-02-2006, 11:39 AM

dang thats too bad....sorry

Christine · 04-02-2006, 02:15 PM

Sorry to hear this. Perhaps instead of you holding her in a net, next time you could just drop mucho plants in the tank and just remove her after shes finished (Since you left the babies in that tank anyway). I've had good success with my guppies this way. I tried one of those plastic floating breeders once and got aborted babies.

Zoe · 04-02-2006, 06:45 PM

That's a good idea Christine but I'm not really equipped to do that... all I have it a 10gal and a little 2 gal that hold some month-old mollies and platys... I daresay that I don't particularly try to save the babies from certain death at the hands (and mouths) of their mother's tankmates, but when I am there and she is about to have babies I can't help myself.
But I think that i dea - I'm movng on the 20th may and perhaps i'll set up like a 5 gal planted tank for just that purpose.

Danke for all the help, better luck next time eh!
Ta

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Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,029	fry not moving My balloon molly just had 31 babies about half an hour ago. they look alive... like big, and they don't particularly look dead, but they aren't moving (a couple have uncurled and occasionally wave their tails, but that's all). ARE they dead?

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04-01-2006, 09:30 PM	#2
ryan999 Fishy Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 16 Posts: 29	most likely no, baby fry always rest on the bottom after birth

04-01-2006, 09:34 PM	#3
Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,029	yeah, it seemed like the last time she had babies (4 weeks ago, exactly) they seemed to lie around for a while. I thought they were all dead. But it seems like they've been there an awful long time, 40 minutes or so.

04-01-2006, 09:36 PM	#4
ryan999 Fishy Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 16 Posts: 29	was she stressed in anyway before birth because sometimes stress can result in stillborn babies. are yours curled up right now? how many are there? balloons are weird when it comes to birthing babies too one minute the babies are fine another they are dead.

04-01-2006, 09:38 PM	#5
Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,029	nope, she wasnt stressed. i noticed she was having babies so i took her out and held her in a large net while she gave birth and let the babies fall to the bottom of the container she was in - last time she ate like 10 of them. They are 31, about half are uncurled. when i poke them a little they swim around. i guess they are just taking their time?

04-01-2006, 10:11 PM	#6
ryan999 Fishy Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 16 Posts: 29	i dont know really what to say maybe they are deformed....just keep us posted

04-01-2006, 11:17 PM	#7
Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,029	Well they haven't done anything yet... they are still lying at the bottom. i'm going to give them till tomorrow morning, then it's flushsville!

04-02-2006, 12:21 AM	#8
ryan999 Fishy Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 16 Posts: 29	thats too bad, i once had baby balloon mollies.... one day they just out of the blue dropped dead...water parameters were fine everything was fine and they were very healthy so keep us posted

04-02-2006, 10:57 AM	#9
Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,029	yah they are pretty dead this morning. ah well. it's not like i had room for 31 more babies!

04-02-2006, 11:39 AM	#10
ryan999 Fishy Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 16 Posts: 29	dang thats too bad....sorry

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04-02-2006, 02:15 PM	#11
Christine Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Age: 39 Posts: 859	Sorry to hear this. Perhaps instead of you holding her in a net, next time you could just drop mucho plants in the tank and just remove her after shes finished (Since you left the babies in that tank anyway). I've had good success with my guppies this way. I tried one of those plastic floating breeders once and got aborted babies.

04-02-2006, 06:45 PM	#12
Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,029	That's a good idea Christine but I'm not really equipped to do that... all I have it a 10gal and a little 2 gal that hold some month-old mollies and platys... I daresay that I don't particularly try to save the babies from certain death at the hands (and mouths) of their mother's tankmates, but when I am there and she is about to have babies I can't help myself. But I think that i dea - I'm movng on the 20th may and perhaps i'll set up like a 5 gal planted tank for just that purpose. Danke for all the help, better luck next time eh! Ta