Are Mollys Reef-Safe
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farfromsea
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Yes there are multiple threads on this. They do not eat coral. They will spawn in saltwater
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Haha well looking at Petco half of their diet is the carcasses of other dead fish in the tank [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51][emoji33]
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Rilelen
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Yes! Reef-safe, love to eat algae, and make lots of little molly babies aka free food. I love mine. Just go slow with acclimating your initial ones to the saltwater. If you want fry, be sure to sex them in the store and try for a harem (3:1 female-to-male ratio) - it's super easy to tell females from males visually.
CoralNerd
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Mine has not been impressive at algae eating what kind did you get?
Rilelen
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I have dalmatian lyretail mollies (and one adult female creamsicle lyretail, just for the interesting genetic variation in the off-spring). My original adult stock is from Petco and adapted to saltwater. The babies that have been born and grown up in SW are much larger and hardier in my experience; I suspect they've simply had a healthier and more enriched rearing environment in my tanks than the Petco mollies.
They are relentless algae eaters, to the extent that my office tank has never gone through the "uglies" - the babies in particular put everything in their mouths (including my hand when I stick it in the tank; they're as bad as cleaner shrimp). I need to split my colony again soon as the latest batch hits sexual maturity (I try to avoid too much in-breeding) and am contemplating moving a few of the larger fry over to my reef tank to do a bit of lawn mowing...
They are relentless algae eaters, to the extent that my office tank has never gone through the "uglies" - the babies in particular put everything in their mouths (including my hand when I stick it in the tank; they're as bad as cleaner shrimp). I need to split my colony again soon as the latest batch hits sexual maturity (I try to avoid too much in-breeding) and am contemplating moving a few of the larger fry over to my reef tank to do a bit of lawn mowing...
Rilelen
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Answers on acclimation time are all over the place, from very short (literally some people dump them right in) to extremely long (i.e., placing them in a QT and slowly raising the salinity over a period of 1-2 weeks).
Personally, I've had a lot of success with about 5 hours going from fresh to full salt. It's important to have a heater in with them, as they tend to stress easily if their water gets chilled, and I sometimes feed just a little about halfway through. I've had really good luck with that procedure, but I don't think there's any good objective work out there on what really works and what's least stressful for them physiologically. I monitor them the entire 5 hours, but try to keep the lights off and their bucket covered with an easily moved peephole to check in on them.
Personally, I've had a lot of success with about 5 hours going from fresh to full salt. It's important to have a heater in with them, as they tend to stress easily if their water gets chilled, and I sometimes feed just a little about halfway through. I've had really good luck with that procedure, but I don't think there's any good objective work out there on what really works and what's least stressful for them physiologically. I monitor them the entire 5 hours, but try to keep the lights off and their bucket covered with an easily moved peephole to check in on them.
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