Saltwater mollies??!!??

[ryebread]

Hi there-
I was at a LFS today and they had Saltwater mollies for sale for three bucks. Are these freshwater mollies that have been adapted to salt or are they a different spiecies altogether? Kinda cool.

 

[clarkiiboi]

mollies can be either or. Just a great amount of time to change over to SW is involved. Some use these to cycle instead of damsels.

 

[killyah]

yes i bet u anything that they are the fresh water mollies, they are very easy to adapted to saltwater. i did that with my guppys and they seem to be doing well in salt, there even breeding

 

[iloveflameangel]

I work at a LFS and we transfer mollies over to salt, then sell them as tank-cyclers because they can be more hardy than even damsels for that purpose. Personally, if I wanted mollies though, I wouldn't even deal with salt water.

 

[nacl-h2o]

Actually mollies are brackish water fish and can survive in either. They are found in rivers, the brackish coversion area and in salt water near the river mouths. A salt water molly is just a molly that was acclimated from brackish to salt instead of brackish to fresh. Because they're the same type of fish if you give them a good long acclimation time you can acclimate either to the other.

 

[koalaprince]

Arialorange-red ARE THERE ANY OTHER KIND OF FISH THAT CAN DO THAT? I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND OUT AND GOTTEN NOWHERE! PLEASE! HELP!

 

[clownfish1452]

Really almost all fresh fish can be salt because i have both and the lfs told me that you should put salt in the fresh tanks one teaspoon per gallon because it puts a good slime coat on them and they will not get ick and it must work because we have never had ick.
sarah

 

[fishymissy]

Now hang on there! When you put some salt in your fresh tank, you aren't putting in the same amount that you put in a marine tank. And usually you aren't putting in marine salt either. The kind used in freshwater as a theraputic bath is just plain salt, no buffers etc....and there are plenty of freshwater fish that cannot stand even a small amount of salt in their water like discus and tetras. Most tetras will stand it for awhile but will "mysteriously" die at an early age. To be honest, I would not dose a fresh tank with salt on a regular basis. It simply isn't needed if your water quality is up to par. Just wanted to clear that up so that someone doesn't come along and start putting oscars in a saltwater tank!
But, there are other fish that can go from fresh to salt and anywhere in between......monos, scats, glassfish, SOME of the puffers commonly sold as freshwater. Most of these fish will do better in brackish than in freshwater (glassfish), and some will do better in full saltwater rather than brackish (monos).
HTH

 

[john_doe]

I could keep the mollies alive when I tried to convert fresh ones to salt. Damsels did a much better job for me.