Mollies, the perfect tankmates?

[Cody Ray]

After reading some info on mollies I am wondering if they wouldn't make great edititions to seahorse/pipefish aquariums. Not only are they peaceful but they reproduce rapidly producing pod-sized fish that make great food for seahorses. Any thoughts?

 

[JennyL]

IME, it's better to keep a species specific tank for horses and keep the Mollies in a seperate tank and feed the fry out ocassionally as a live treat.

Some horses like them and others will completely ignore them.

HTH

 

[pledosophy]

The mollie fry is not exactly pod sized. I kept them together for a couple of years. My seahorses never ate the molly fry. JME.

 

[reefnewbie54321]

they dont reproduce nearly enough for the fry to be considered food ... more like a midnight snack lol

They are pretty small peacful fish but dont contribute to the system much othere then maybe 60 fry every month that rarely get eaten by anything ... there just extra bioload so unless you actualy like the look of mollies in your tank there are better options.

 

[Samala]

The ones I had in my brackish tanks did a good job grazing unwanted algae. Though.. for a marine tank with SH that might be a negative thing. Unless you had hair algae.. maybe they'd go for that. (?)

>Sarah