Nice little story about your Blood Molly, Sorry for your loss.

Tricky situation, that breeding adventure.
We are interested in breeding our Oscars cichlid pair which is presently jaw locking. ( I have an 11 year old son, who loves science... so it's a project we can work on together)
We have only bred guppies successfully by putting a plant light in and having lots of plant life for cover, they reproduced themselves without a hitch.
Cool avatar!