I started with about 25 Mollies in the outside pond. About equally divided between the Pearl white sailfin with blue tails, the black and orange Duke and the black and white Marble.
I think there could conservatively be a thousand mollies in there now! I can't believe how they've multiplied. The white sailfin's seem to be the most prolific, it sometimes looks like a snowstorm in the water.
Today a friend dropped by with a bag of water hyacinth from his pond. When we put it in the pond, the mollies swarmed it like it was a broken piñata full of candy. The big ones seem to ignore it but the teenagers went wild.
Somewhere in that pond there are also a couple of black plecos but I haven't seen them since I released them. I also have a few guppies and I originally put 4 angel fish about 1" high in there. Lately we've seen 2 of the Angels and they are at least 4" top to bottom. My friend was standing watching them the other day and swears she saw the Angel fish eat one of the tiniest mollies, just zoomed up and swallowed it she said. If that's happening, no wonder the Angels have grown so much and maybe I need more of them.
I'm considering putting one - so they won't breed - gold fish in there to control the molly population. It would be more fun to use the Angel fish though, they just don't seem to eat enough. I know, that's bad but really, there are so many Mollies that I can't have them continue to breed like this. Did I mention that I never feed them? sigh.