Anyone has experience keeping marine molly

rastaangel · #1 08-21-2011, 01:17 AM

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...

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #2 08-21-2011, 08:59 AM

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.

goby1 · #3 08-21-2011, 01:56 PM

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 ...

arash53 · #4 08-21-2011, 02:53 PM

It about 15 hours, they are alive and doing fine but they did not get use to water flow yet still staying near the surface!

FitoPharmer · #5 08-21-2011, 05:21 PM

If they stay near the surface all the time, they could be having problems acclimating.

Reef Puffer · #6 08-21-2011, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by arash53

It about 15 hours, they are alive and doing fine but they did not get use to water flow yet still staying near the surface!

mine would play in the current, they looked like they were having alot of fun (for the first week). my mollies also spend alot of time at the surface, they do there runs of the tank and pick at the glass most of the day but there "home" seems to be at the top in a low current spot (always the first to the food). 3 months in.