why is it that you can convert mollies?
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ren
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Not sure on the glass fish but I would immagine. Mollies used to be used to test drip acclimation and tank parameters. They were cheap and did fine in saltwater. If you had your drip to fast they would die. Was better to kill a mollie than a $$$ saltwater specimen. Corse the drip method is rarely used nowadays.
azonic
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Mollies frequently get ich if they dont have good water conditions. At least in a freshwater aquarium they do. I've got 2 black and one dalmation in a 10 gallon freshwater and i've only had one outbreak on one of the fish. Treated with aquarasol for a week and it cleared up. I don't know if putting them in saltwater would do more to cause it or prevent it. I think it would help prevent it because even in a freshwater aquarium it's recommended that you use some FRESHWATER salt because the mollies like it and it helps them fend off paraistes. With that said, why would you want to spend so much money on a saltwater tank and then put $2 black mollies in it? <img src="graemlins//confused.gif" border="0" alt="[confused]" />
anywho, to each his own, HTH
anywho, to each his own, HTH
nacl-h2o
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I was told Mollis live in fresh and in brackish water in their native waters. Most brackish water fish can survive in salt water. I know we have mosquito fish here, a realative of the mollies and guppies. The mosquito fish are fresh water fish frequintly found in brackish water at the river mouths and sometimes found in the salt marshes next to the rivers. So it maybe true.
taku
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I added several "fat" mollies to my 120 reef and noticed they did an excellent job on the algea... they even picked the dark green algea off a chili coral and it opened up fully afterwards. That was the first 2 days they were in the tank... after that the 6-line wrasse picked on them too much so they stay at the surface now.
Anyhoo I acclimated them over the course of 6 hours in a 5 gallon bucket. First I put them in there with their original water only. After about 10 minutes I added a half-cup of saltwater from my tank. Half hour later, added a full cup. Kept doing this every half hour until the 5 gallon bucket was getting decently full, then I dumped out most the water and added another 5-10 cups of saltwater over the course of some time.
I didn't lose any mollies to acclimation problems.
They like to pick at the algea growing on the glass/powerheads.
The only reason I got them is so I could have a male and 5 females who will have live babies to feed the tank with.
Anyhoo I acclimated them over the course of 6 hours in a 5 gallon bucket. First I put them in there with their original water only. After about 10 minutes I added a half-cup of saltwater from my tank. Half hour later, added a full cup. Kept doing this every half hour until the 5 gallon bucket was getting decently full, then I dumped out most the water and added another 5-10 cups of saltwater over the course of some time.
I didn't lose any mollies to acclimation problems.
They like to pick at the algea growing on the glass/powerheads.
The only reason I got them is so I could have a male and 5 females who will have live babies to feed the tank with.
discusking
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OfALegend: I am sorry to inform you, but black mollies may in fact be hybrids of the green molly, but they are not genetically engineered becasuse they have been in the hobby before this genetic tecnique was developed. Genetic engineering is just inhansing one organism's genes with another orgaism's gene. If it was engeenered then i would think it would be immune to ick.
discusking
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OfALegend: I am sorry to inform you, but black mollies may in fact be hybrids of the green molly, but they are not genetically engineered becasuse they have been in the hobby before this genetic tecnique was developed. Genetic engineering is just inhansing one organism's genes with another orgaism's gene. If it was engeenered then i would think it would be immune to ick.
ofalegend
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DiscusKing,
By genetically engineered I was referring to artificially bred. Point in fact was they do not occur in nature:
"Solid black mollies are artificially bred from any of several mollie species, although mottled black sailfin mollies sometimes occur in nature."
Source: <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0833640.html" target="_blank">http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0833640.html</a>
Hopefully this will clear up my intentions in my post.
By genetically engineered I was referring to artificially bred. Point in fact was they do not occur in nature:
"Solid black mollies are artificially bred from any of several mollie species, although mottled black sailfin mollies sometimes occur in nature."
Source: <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0833640.html" target="_blank">http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0833640.html</a>
Hopefully this will clear up my intentions in my post.