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    Posted: September 25 2003 at 10:06am
Wejust started a new 75 gallon tank with 2- 96 W PC's and the Fluval filtration system.  Because we live in Logan and there is no salt water fish store up here, we got mollies at Petsmart and slowly acclimated them  to our tank to help mature it.  So far so good - and now we have baby mollies!!!  Has anyone heard of this beforeand will they survive?  We have no idea what will happen.
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Yes, they will survive. It has been done. At Seabase they have Mollies everywhere. They are good to feed to lionfish and the like.
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John - will they survive without some food source though? Ie. rotifers, brine shrimp.
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yes with brine and flake they will

 
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Just feed them any kind of flake food. They might be able to eat the live Brine, I don't know.

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John's right. You should check out Seabase sometime. The mollies there provide food for most of the other fish in their system.
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Some Mollies will eat brine shrimp but Mollies are major algae eaters. Spirulina flake is best and they will pick at soft algae on glass and rock. I've seen them clean up hair algae from rocks in a few days!
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