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I was talking to a fellow reefer about Freshwater fish and talk about how i saw a Black molly in a SW in our LFS i thought it was crazy but after hearing that this guys are brackish i thought i can make a cool SW reef tank with mollies.

Are there any other type of mollies that are brackish?
 
All mollies are brackish and can go salt. I was thinking of putting some guppies in my qt tank just to have something in there. Guppies can also be migrated to saltwater.

I'm not sure why you'd use mollies in a display tank when there are so many SW choices.
 
It not for my display tank its for my nano tank that i have nothing in just macro algae. This sounds cool, even guppies are awesome. Want to surprise my local fellow reefers when i have SW mollies and guppies in a reef system, keep them guessing:lmao:
 
Would be a nice addition to a reed seeing how much alga they eat and the fact that they supply your fish with a fresh supply of live food if you have a couple.
 
Cool i was planning get rid off my old 10G SW setups but after hearing this sounds like a new plan. Do Platies also do good in SW?
 
I put a pair in my 150, hoping they would breed and give my damsels a snack. Acclimated them for about 2-3 hours and dumped them in. The male was eaten immediately by a moray, the female has been in the tank for about two weeks. It is an algae eating machine.
 

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Frogmanx82 said:
All mollies are brackish and can go salt. I was thinking of putting some guppies in my qt tank just to have something in there. Guppies can also be migrated to saltwater.

I'm not sure why you'd use mollies in a display tank when there are so many SW choices.
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I can think of two good reasons: 1) the only other solid black fish I'm aware of are black angels and black tangs. The latter are extremely rare and the former are pretty rare and both are very expensive; 2)if you get a pair, they have all those live babies to feed the bigger fish or survive!

I think its a very cool idea.
 
its interesting how mollies get a much nicer color once converted to SW !!

I have been breeding them in SW for years as fish food, my lionfish gets the adults and seahorses once in a while get a baby or two.

they are great at eating hair algae.
 
I thought of putting mollies in my reef tank but wasn't sure if they could handle the flow in the tank. I thought they would just get blown around in there, am I mistaken?

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LOL I used to work for Pecto a will back, was a manager and ran the Aquatics. When I got bored I would acclimate mollies into the marine tanks. They alway did great. If I could find some Gold Dust mollies again I would put a pair in my fuge. In fact now that I think about it, hearing the chow on algae I may put one in my fuge. I need to get rid of some cotton candy algae that is taking over and 1 week of no light on the fuge has not done much.
 
What's the best way to acclimate them to saltwater? Are there any negatives to putting them in your reef tank?

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I think mollies can be acclimated by a drip method over a few hours. Guppies need about a week. I don't think guppies would make it in my display but now I'm thinking more about the mollies. My lfs has some mollies already in saltwater.
 
Well I just got two. Intended to acclimate slowly but the bag slipped in the tank and they swam in. So far no real problems although they are tending toward the top of the tank. No algae eating so far, but I'm very hopeful on that score - esp. hair algae.

They look great in the tank.
 
I just picked up 1 male and 5 female gold dust mollies. Been acclimating for a couple hours, but only about halfway to 1.026, so I dumped about half the water out and continued dripping. It is more of an algae eating experiment for me, plus I am down to one chromis, so my 'schooling' fish are no more. Can't beat $15 for 6 sparkly orange 'saltwater' fish. I only have 2 clowns, a yellow coris (yeah I know its not a true Coris), a random little hitcher fish and the chromis in my 125, so I am guessing they will not be under too much scrutiny. My big fear is that they will not be anemone savvy like most reef fish seem to be.
 
My local Petco had 3 of those orange relatives of mollies in their saltwater tank for over a months. Dunno if someone bought them but I was thinking of acclimating some for my tank but I don't have algae for them to graze on :D
 
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My local Petco had 3 of those orange relatives of mollies in their saltwater tank for over a months. Dunno if someone bought them but I was thinking of acclimating some for my tank but I don't have algae for them to graze on :D
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In my freshwater tank my mollies spend a lot of time picking at the bottom and the plants and wood for extra morsels of food, so you might could add some as cuc if you have no algae.

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