:O Nooo.. All my baby fish and snails... just..disappeared!?

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Yesterday my black mollie gave birth to around 50 baby fish and there were also some baby snails in the tank, I checked 3 hours later, nothing, zip, zilch. I managed to find one baby fish, so i moved it to a seperate tank, Today I checked on it, nothing in the tank, I searched around, nothing.
-_- I moved the mom when she was pregnant into a seperate 10 gallon tank by herself.
 
More than likely the adult mollies ate the frys. If you other fishes, they could have also made a meal of them.

I doubt if the snails are capable of catching the fast swimming frys let alone eat them.
 
Perhaps the guy outside with the balaclava on and the black outfit might have something to do with it?
 
My sister had mollies and the same happened.
Don't worry.. It actually is really usual for the bigger fish to eat the Newborn.
 
Mollies are Livebearers so breeding them is fairly easy and can be either safe ways or risking it which kinda sounds like you were doing that,but thats only my take on it.Did you have any other fish in that tank besides the mother Mollie? If you did that's usually why there's nothing left even the snails that were bite sized too.But here's a way to help do some better breeding and keeping your young safe.

The easiest solution is to provide good cover and hiding places for the fry in the form of plant cover like anacharis* and hornwort*. This will help but some will still get eaten. Another solution is to buy a breeding net, which provides a separate compartment in the aquarium for the mother before she drops the fry. After dropping the fry the mother can be removed so the fry are separated from the rest of the tank by the breeding net. Along the same lines the mother and fry can be placed in a separate aquarium so the mother can be separated from the fry when they are born. Breeding traps are also utilized which keep the mother confined with a grating that the fry can pass through.

The fry can be fed baby brine shrimp, which is usually purchased frozen, or can be hatched from brine shrimp eggs. Also pulverized flake food, which is sold as baby fish food, and hardboiled egg yolk strained through a cloth.
 
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