Anyone has experience keeping marine molly

[Myka]

Originally Posted by arash53

These are already converted, I wonder if they are reef safe or not!

Ya, they are. They are great algae eaters.

[FishyFishy!]

There is actually quite a few different species that naturally start their lives in total freshwater and migrate their way down to saltwater as they get older. I know green spotted puffers, figure 8 puffers, pea puffers, archer fish, and mono sebae's have been known to be totally ok in a full saltwater environment as long as they are slowely acclimated.

[arash53]

OK then I gonna go get a pair today

[Reef Puffer]

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.

[arash53]

So if I just go and buy pretty FW Salfin molly and throw them in the tank it will it make it?

[Reef Puffer]

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.

Originally Posted by arash53

So if I just go and buy pretty FW Salfin molly and throw them in the tank it will it make it?

[arash53]

I'll give it a try today and will post the result, I will acclimate them in bout 2 hours slowly by adding my tank SW to the LFS FW.