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08-20-2011, 08:27 PM
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i have a couple, bought 2 females (fw). theres a little story behind them. i started my sw tank got it all cycled and couldnt get to a lfs that sold sw suplies. anyway was so boring in my cycled tank with nothing in it but live rock. i bought some more live rock and another tank of a local guy who had given up on sw keeping. he told me to go to the pet store and buy mollies. (these are fresh water mollies) he said just throw them in, he says if their prego the babies will just pop right out! i asked about climating them and he assured me i could just throw them in. me beeing super newbie to salt water i did it... ok was prolly a little mean and maybe like cycling with live fish, but i didnt know any better. anyways they both had babies, they both are fine to date (3 months later) and i have a dozen baby marine mollies swimming around that seem to b fine aswell. is an orange molly and a dalmation molly. but thats just my 2 cents on mollies in the marine environment. they do eat algae all day, aswell as wicked little sand sifters. hardy as hell and dont pick on anything, hella poopers tho! not the prettiest fish but definataly great starter fish.
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08-20-2011, 09:01 PM
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idk anything about mollies other than the ones i threw in are just fine (im NOT saying just throw freshwater fish in a marine environment). the orange one lightened up quite a bit and i heard there are different molly speicies that do better than others. the black ones apparently do the best. ive seen marine dalmation mollies for sale. and like i said before, i have a dozen little babies that all look fine. the first batch (dalmation) is prolly 2 1/2 moths old.
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08-21-2011, 01:17 AM
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I used mollys to cycle my tank the first time around. I went to the pet store and bought 30 random mollys and just dumped them into my tank. They lived threw the cycle and multiplied rapidly, after 2 months there were gobs of baby mollies all over!!! Then I introduced my pair of volitans and they cleared them out for the most part. To this day, I have had my tank break, started over, then had it crash from being poisoned, started over again, and what has lived threw all it? 3 sailfin mollies...
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08-21-2011, 08:59 AM
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I used to very slowly (over several weeks) acclimate balloon mollies from fw to brackish to full strength saltwater years ago. It can be done.
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08-21-2011, 01:56 PM
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Paul's in Surrey has a salt water Molly tank that's pretty cool. I bought a male and a female - the male died right away but the female is great - eats algae all day and is no trouble. Definately odd to see an orange molly swimming sided by side by a spotted puffer though ...
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08-22-2011, 02:52 AM
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When I first set my salt water tank, our local fish store sold me mollies to help with the cycle.
As my tank already was at 1.025 salinity, I asked about this being hard on them and was told to just float the bag as usual and slowly add some salt water. After a few hours they were added to the tank with no ill results. Could not have been to hard on them as I had a number the females give birth in the first month. We started with six mollies and after the tank cycled, I took about 40 back to the per store.
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08-22-2011, 04:38 AM
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They start swimming all over the tank.
one question when they breed will my fish eat their babies? I have a pair of clown, a bengali cardinal , a firefish , a diamond goby and a coral beauty angel.
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