Mollies

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8486081#post8486081 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sparkss
Thanks for the info Cham... for a buck a pop I think I will give em a shot, and yes, $$ does matter. If they were $20 each, then I would likely wait and buy some that were raised in SW, or actually take the full week to acclimate them (versus the 3 hours that the article noted). At that point it is weighing what my time is worth against the fishes... and guess which one will win ? :D
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Guys, mollies live in salt naturally. This is well known. This comes up like every 6 months.

They'll do fine in your tank.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8485297#post8485297 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lessthanlights
Does the cost of a creature have any bearing on it's value as a living creature?
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Of coarse. We'll just make sure that the circle of life is discontinued. If he does so happen to die, at lease he'll make good food for my hermits ;)

What do you feed your fish by the way?
 
Ok ive read this thread and all the other threads. I no longer have ahuge algea problem but i still need somthing to finish cleaning it up. My problem is that i need to get rid of my hawkfish because i know he will kill them, and im wondering if my damsel will also kill this guy off. Please let me know what you guys think. Thanks.
 
I would think anything aggresive that is herbivore/omnivore in nature and territorial will kill the mollies and this would include damsels. Also anything that can fit a molly in its mouth probably will end up with a molly in its mouth.

Chris
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8485340#post8485340 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lessthanlights
Then you should find another hobby!
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You must only have a tank of herbivores. I almost feel bad when my peppermints let out hundreds of baby shrimp and my clowns and tangs eat them up...Nah, I don't feel bad.
 
i have had a black molly in my seahorse tank for the past month...
he has been fine with all my corals, inverts, and water chemistry hasnt changed!
 
I started acclimating my molly and she had 7 babies, right into the saltwater cooool.
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haha..... couldnt wait huh!

just out of interest, if u were to keep these in your sump/fuge, for the sole reason of proving the babys as food for fish in the display. what fish would be most likely to eat the babies?

tangs?
angels?

im thinking its much more worthwile in a predator tank, but just wanted to see what fish in my reef would actually feed on these baby mollies?
 
I only have smaller reef fish and no one even looked at them but the sixline and he just swam circles around it. One did get to close to a peppermint shrimp and that was it.
 
put the mollies into a small cup, put the cup in a bucket and drip display water into the cup. let it over flow into the bucket. about 2 drips per second seems to work well, but check salinity in 2 hours, it should not equal your display yet but if it does, its fine. idealy the salinity should match your system in 3-4 hours. this is nearly garanteed to work, i have moved mollies from fresh into salt within an hour without problems.

my false perc loves to eat baby mollies and im sure my royal gramma would too.

i dont recomend useing mollies to feed coral. my anemone does not eat them, spits them out within 30 mins or so. i think that mollies are about as healthy for our saltwater animals as feeder goldfish.

they do EAT a TON of algae. i strongly beleive hair algae is eaten. they also poop ALOT, i came home to a female molly with a 9 inch turd string. but its not like they are adding nutrients into the water because they are recycling the algae.
 
Theoretically yes, but as long as you have an established filter it shouldn't be a problem...

On a side note, the same can be done with guppies which are even more colourful but don't know if they eat the algae like the mollies...
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8513869#post8513869 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Aquai
Theoretically yes, but as long as you have an established filter it shouldn't be a problem...

On a side note, the same can be done with guppies which are even more colourful but don't know if they eat the algae like the mollies...
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Well if that was the case, then a tank would probably not have Hair or Cyano algae.
 
I would think so. I turned my QT into a salt-mollie tank. I had two females and one male. They pooped alot, but clean up was alot easier in a 10 gal. with a glass bottom. I ended up giving them away, they wouldn't reproduce enough (maybe 2 or three fry).
 
am i the only one who thinks that seeing a molly in a reef tank is just so unnatural...? yes, they live in brakish water, but a reef is already so far out into the ocean to still be considered brackish... if your only reason of keeping them is for algae control, then why not just work on your system's nutrient import/export problem...
 
I did it because now that I have my nutirent import/export under control (or what I hope to be) I need something to get rid of alot of built up hair algea to get it out of my tank. I have mexican turbos, regular turbos and a blenny but they don't like the long stuff and a 1.50 molly sounds like a better alternative to a few afternoons with my hands in the tank pulling it off manually.
 
I used to catch them all the time in the marshes around Palacios, TX. They are very easy to catch and will definitely survive in higher salinities.

Hair algae is unsightly and has the potential of ruining the "reef" your trying to maintain. I'd rather have a few sailfin mollies in my tank than algae. The male sailfins are somewhat colorful and breed readily with their partners.

Is it completely natural? No. Is anyone's tank natural? No. In the end it's all about preference. To each his own, at least on this subject!:D

Afterall, it's not like we're talking about introducing mollies to natural reefs.:rollface:
 
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