sea hares & black mollies

[sassyfrassy]

1. does anyone keep a sea hare and feed it, and if so what do you feed it?
2. Will acclimated black mollies breed in a SW tank? Will most fish eat the mollie babies?

 

[jthomas]

How do you aclimate fw mollie's or guppys to sw? I know that fish will eat the fry, I live in utah and there is a big saltwater scubba lake called seabase that has thousands of mollies that breed and feed all there fish.

 

[sassyfrassy]

bump - does no one keep a sea hare or mollies for live food?

 

[Lynnmw1208]

I have seen people just drop adult mollies into SW and they adapt. However I would recommend drip acclimating them to reduce the stress. I assume when the babies are born they will already be adapted to SW since the parents are there. But yet the other fish including the parents will probably eat them.

For the sea hares, I don't have experience with them, sorry. hopefully someone else does!

 

[sfboarders]

I had a sea hare for about a month. It ate all my algae and that's all they ate. When he was done eating all my algae I passed him off to another club member who had algae in his tank. He had it for a couple weeks and it died even though he still had a lot of food for him.

 

[sirreal63]

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I kept Black Mollies for years as a food source for an S. Tapetum anemone and it works great once they are acclimated. They do tend to breed better in salt than in fresh. Black Mollies are estuary fish and are frequently found in fresh, brackish and full salt areas. No help with sea hares, never had them and probably never will.

 

[nissannx]

i have mollies now in salt. just dropped them. it has only been 3 weeks. no breeding yet.

 

[Emerald525]

I had a sea hare for about a month. It ate all my algae and that's all they ate. When he was done eating all my algae I passed him off to another club member who had algae in his tank. He had it for a couple weeks and it died even though he still had a lot of food for him.

+1 I had a sea hare for about a month and he did an awesome job on the hair algae. my plan was to pass him along to another member but he decided to clean the Koralia and was shredded.

I asked a similar question and there were several other members of my local forum that had had one for a year and didn't feed anything extra.

I would try another one except I have no doubt my huma huma aka human garbage can would probably eat it.

 

[Baltimore Bryan]

I keep a male and two female mollies in my sump. Every month or so, each female releases about 15 babies each, which go to the DT and make a nice snack for my cardinals. I drip acclimated them for about 24 hours and they are fine.
Bryan

 

[allsps40]

Yes you acclimate mollies to salt water and they will breed just fine. There are some really cool mollies you can keep in a reef tank. I like gold dust mollies. I have seen stuff on tv where mollies went from the fresh water streams out to the reef. They do this when the streams reseed. It was cool seeing all the different sized/age mollies all over a wild reef. I have wondered if platies would live in salt water as I has many breeding in my fresh water tank.