Mollies in salt water
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Topic: Mollies in salt water
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Mollies in salt water
Date 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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Posted By: John Fletcher
Date Posted: September 25 2003 at 10:20am
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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. ------------- John Fletcher 20 years experience (Tank of the Month for May 2003)Taking a little break... |
Posted By: rfoote
Date Posted: September 25 2003 at 10:27am
| John - will they survive without some food source though? Ie. rotifers, brine shrimp. |
Posted By: Aquarium Creations
Date Posted: September 25 2003 at 10:29am
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yes with brine and flake they will
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Posted By: John Fletcher
Date Posted: September 25 2003 at 10:42am
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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. ------------- John Fletcher 20 years experience (Tank of the Month for May 2003)Taking a little break... |
Posted By: Ryan Willden
Date Posted: September 25 2003 at 12:02pm
| John's right. You should check out Seabase sometime. The mollies there provide food for most of the other fish in their system. |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: September 28 2003 at 9:47pm
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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! ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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