Sailfin mollies

well I have about 16 fry now but i'm confused....both the parents were orange and there are some black and some orange fry...??

the live barer type of fish can hold a males "stuff" in them for like 4 births even with no male so if any other male was introduced even in the petstores a long time ago she can have there babys but that should fade after a few time breeding with your male

Okay I thought it was pretty funny....
I think the mom had something going on with the "mail fish"...

Ha Ha, that's pretty funny. Yep, dad was likely a different color.

Quite often, fry do not have the same colors or markings as their parents. Did you mean mail man or male man?

mail man but as a fish

but I did hear about that happening with chocolate labs.

Some fish also change colors as they mature.

Could this also be a result of both parents carrying recessive genes? (I don't even know if black is recessive or dominant or if it's a matter of codominance, but it just makes me wonder.) Though I do still think the more likely cause is, in fact, seperate fathers.

it very well could have to do with that KristinAnn. probibly more likely than there being a "mail man" in the tank. lol

It could be recessive genes or even two absentee fathers. It does happen.

You can have fry the color of the mom, the dad, or combo of the two - or genes from ancestors.

Females can deliver babies 5-6 times with a mating. They store the sperm. So even if you have females all alone, then can deliver many months later.

Females you buy in the store can be mated with all sorts of males, so you may have lots of daddies that are proud parents.