Anyone has experience keeping marine molly

arash53 · #1 08-20-2011, 08:41 PM

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

Reef Puffer · #2 08-20-2011, 09:01 PM

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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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 · #3 08-20-2011, 09:06 PM

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.

arash53 · #4 08-21-2011, 01:11 AM

OK I bought a pair of Salfin Balloon Molly and put them in the tank. it's about two hours and they are doing fine

rastaangel · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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 · #8 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!

Gary · #9 08-22-2011, 02:52 AM

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.

arash53 · #10 08-22-2011, 04:38 AM

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.