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My balloon mollies babies

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Question
My balloon molly has been pregnant for a while now and on 1/4/08 I woke up
and I saw 5 babies at the top of the tank I quickly took them out and put them in
a new container, but it is half a galloon. What should I do with them?

Answer
If it was me, I'd put them back into the tank with the parents. There is no reason to take them out and they would be better in the tank with their parents than in a half a gallon. Besides when fry are very young, which yours are, the parents tend to look after them until they are bigger, fry are alot more vunerable to water conditions as well so wouldn't do well in a half gallon container.

HTH