Molly or Betta

[sawcat]

Do mollies all have a flattened nose? Live someone took a shovel and flattened their foreheads?

I thought I was getting a female betta who just had a funny face. She was in the tank with a load of guppies, a bala shark and one female betta who'd seen better days (only those three types supposed to be in there). But after getting her settled for ich treatment I was looking through my betta book, and saw in the tank mates section a picture of a molly...and it had a flattened nose

[amanichen]

Yes, they do have flattened noses =)

[twoluvcats]

That looks like a female platy to me

[accountingchick]

I have to agree with twoluvcats on this one. My dad used to keep platys that looked very similar to the one in your picture.

[sawcat]

Another forum was mixed versus platy or molly. Whatever she is, she popped out 12 fry in the day I had her *facepalm*

[amanichen]

sawcat said:

Another forum was mixed versus platy or molly. Whatever she is, she popped out 12 fry in the day I had her *facepalm*

They're both livebearers. Molly and platy are really arbitrary distinctions between different genera and species.