Will small angels eat 2 month old molly fry?

[aparker2005]

Hey everyone...........I have 16 2 month old Dalmation molly fry. I am wanting to add 4 Angels to my tank, which are quarter-half dollar sized. I don' think the baby mollys could fit in their mouth, but in the next few weeks if I were to add them, do you think these small angels would try to eat them? The little mollys are growing very quickly, but if the angels would eat them, I was gonna wait a lot longer to get them.

 

[johnlarson66]

I would wait. Even though they are not "mouth size", they are small and I think the angels would still try.

Better safe than sorry.

 

[toddnbecka]

Have you ever seen an angelfish fully open it's mouth? The lips sort of extend into a tube, relatively much larger than you would expect. I suspect some of the mollies would be eaten, but I had a breeding pair of sailfin mollies in a 55 community tank. I finally returned them all to the lfs because not enough of the fry were getting eaten, and they would have overcrowded the tank.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

they prob could. good way to keep the population under control.

 

[lucky777ca]

I would wait for the frys to grow up more.

 

[mobilecow]

If you like your angels, I'd put them in the tank now - they LOVE livebearer fry - tender, juicy, slow-swimming fry - mine inhale them and are about the size you described (maybe a little larger).
If you plan on keeping the fry - hold off on buying the angels - or better yet, get the angels and quarantine them. A full grown angel will usually go after some other fish over an adult molly - but I have one particularly agressive one who took out a white-molly while they were in transit to another tank.
Mollies and Angels may not be the best idea in the long run - the former prefering slightly brackish conditions, slightly cooler water, and different pH / dH levels...