Mollies?

[tigerlover]

Is it true that you can put fw mollies in a sw tank, or am I just plain dumb and there's a sw molly like there's a sw betta?

 

[steve40]

You can put mollies into a sw tank you just need to acclimate them for about a week maybe less since they are hardy. You can do that with just about any live bearing fish it seems because most of them are brackish water fish.

 

[tigerlover]

cool, I know this is a very stupid question(just wanna make sure though) does that mean a livebearer like... a guppy could live in a sw tank?(fancy, not feeder, or both)

 

[steve40]

yup, you can do it to monos, freshwater puffers, archer fish, guppies are very easy because of how hardy they are.

 

[tigerlover]

Thanx

 

[jake22]

Gupies are not brakish water fish so i would not try it. I did however acclimate 2 mollies to salwater it took about 6 hours. They are still fine that was like 4 months ago.

 

[entice59]

can you add a beta in the tank? "fresh water fighting fish"
adding the mollies or any fw to a saltwater tank wont slowly kill it? it seems odd to me... i want to try out a freshwater fish in saltwater as long as it doesnt slowly kill it off

 

[teetee]

No to the betta.
The olnly type of fish that can take the transfer are brackish fish. These fish live in or around eastuaries where the water is brackish. That is to say a mix of fresh and salt water. Ocean water mixes with fresh water rivers via the esatuaries. As a result, brackish fish can adjust to either fresh or salt water envoronments. Brackish fish include livebearers, monos, scats, bublebee gobies, puffers, black tail sharks, and others. the betta is not a brackish fish.

 

[entice59]

hm... interesting... i'll have to see what those brackish water fish look like
hehe, i hang out with flipinio people, do you know what teetee means?

 

[tigerlover]

What about a platy?