Balloon Molly Love

Sorry the sound sucks, I have no video editing software. & the filter really isn't loud: I swear! It was that the mic for the camera was pointed behind the tank and I think the sound from the other filter, for the tank below this, and the MUCH louder air pump, was just reverberating up the wall that the tanks back up to. Anyway: The mom is the very big pure-white one, the dad is the sort of big pure-black one: Besides the odd golden pristella or neon tetra, and some loaches that are hiding, all you are seeing are the Balloon Molly babies: Several batches of them from maybe a 4 or 5 month period. (Notice the sizes? I think it was pretty much 30 days in between each batch, and there were 30 to 50 babies in each of those. Oh, and the sleeker shaped one, that is speckled and has an orangeish head, was one of three born a few days after I brought the mom home: That baby, and her 2 brothers, still don't have the shapes of balloon mollies. I guess they can breed with other types?) You know, they never even tried to eat a single one of their babies? (or siblings) And, as you can see, they're very fearless X) The girls and boys were split up not long after I took this though. It was only a 20L tank so it couldn't support this many for long, ...unless I stuck to an insane cleaning schedule. Live plants (brizillan pennywort, anubias, etc..) eco-complete substrate, real driftwood (aquarium safe from fosters and smith,) 83 Fahrenheit, whisper overhanging filter, and a bubble wand. Pretty simple :3

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YouTube | January 18, 2009

Tags:. .loaches. .driftwood. .reverberating. .tetra. .fahrenheit