Saltwater Mollies?

[volitan]

Someone mentioned that you can put Mollies in a marine tank, and they will adapt to the saltwater. This sounds like a line of **** to me, but I guess anythings possible. Anybody know about this? <img src="graemlins//uhuh.gif" border="0" alt="[U-Huh]" />

 

[piscesblue]

Yes you can. Mollies live in brackish water and can move inbetween fresh or salt. A lot of people use them to cycle their tanks and I used them to feed my octopus. It's best to slowly add saltwater into the bag to acclimate them, but they do fine if you just dump them in.

 

[superman]

It's true you can.

 

[fshhub]

funny, these critters can even breed in all 3 types of water, odd, but true, i had a hard time believing it myself, until i saw it

 

[ebeckels]

they are typically placed in freshwater at the LFS or *****, but really, as mentioned above, they are a brackish water fish. They do just fine and actually can thrive in saltwater.

 

[zipperfish]

i heard the same about some types of trout. Don't know bout that either but the mollies can. its quite interesting though

 

[miner]

I have one that has been in my tank for over 2 Mo. he is doing great

 

[marek]

I’m sorry; I've heard about this years ago, but never gave it a second thought. What Mollies are you guys talking about? There are at least two kinds known by its common name right? One is the black half-moon tail, which I think resembles platy's more right? The other is colorful, and has a common name of "sail-fin molly" and can get rather large (4 inches or so)... it has a large fin on its back? Is this the one... thanks guys.

 

[wally]

Most all of the mollies you will find in pet shops will do awesome in marine tanks. In fact they are found commonly in the Gulf of Mexico. I have been into livebearers a very long time and now that I have some saltwater tanks going I have mollies in all of them. Mollies by the way are also great at picking at hair algae. The jet black ones also look very cool against white sand and coraline covered LR. Plus if you have a male and a few females every 28 days you will get a ton of babies that your other fish will love to eat.

 

[kris walker]

And not only will your other fish love to eat the babies, the parents will love to eat them too! <img src="graemlins//uhuh.gif" border="0" alt="[U-Huh]" /> Saw this the first time they bred for us back when I was 12, and once my little bro saw it he started crying his eyes out. It's amazing the things you remember.
sam