Mollys In Salt Water

[MMAX]

I've heard of this being done before and have also heard that they are algae eating machines. Anyone ever had any luck and what would you have to do? Acclimatize slowly into SW and keep increasing salinity?

[flipzed]

i have done this with 4 black mollys. u just gotta take your time acclimatizing them to your tank, just use your tank water but just tiny bit at a time over 6 hours. they looked off for the first few days but they turned into good algea eaters.. just be prepared to have alot of babies if u get a male and a female..

[Snappy]

I have done it a few times with a few molly species and they will thrive but I would not call them algae eating machines. A foxface or scopas tang will out perform them in that regard.

[MMAX]

I'll still give it a try, I'm kinda off tangs for the moment.

[PoonTang]

I have done it with Black Mollys and aclimated slowly over 2 days. They didnt seem interested in algae at all so i took them back out after a month or so.

[SmallFry]

I had a couple for a while, can't say they ate much algae, easily outperformed by a turbo snail.. As already stated, just acclimatize slowly.

Oh yes, and they were dumb as a sack of hammers too - kept bugging a tomato clown, which is just not smart...