Acclimating mollies

[reefjunkie53]

Picked up 2 mollies and slowly drip acclimating them hoping they do well

 

[Jimbo_Slice]

I did the same in my tank this a week ago. My lfs told me not to acclimate them due to stressing them out longer. I didnt agree and acclimated mine in a 2.5 gal fish bowl.

Both made it but the first 2 days they would play dead on my overflow skimmer but when I tried to fish out they swam away. Now they are swimming around but never seem to eat any algue. So now I have two ugly fish swimming around.

Let me know how it goes for you.

 

[jboone82590]

I want to do this in my 75 I'm starting to build

 

[reefjunkie53]

They are doing great so far and actually I think they are really pretty specially under the blue LEDs

 

[reefjunkie53]

 

[reefjunkie53]

They almost glow in the blue LEDs

 

[Jimbo_Slice]

Yeah yours look cool in the lights.

 

[reef_junkie]

Mine grew very fast after going full marine. Also bred normally.

 

[Naiad]

What type of mollies is easy everyone getting? I'm thinking sailfins.

 

[Jimbo_Slice]

I dont know what I got. I know thats sad. But what ever I got must have been pregnant at the store. Because I see a baby swimming around my tank. Wounder if there are more that I haven't seen.

 

[WilRams]

I did this with sailfin mollies. The only issue was they were in a frag tank and could not handle the flow well. I didn't feel like it was best to keep them so I moved them along.

 

[nawilson89]

@Jimbo_Slice where did you buy your mollies? I purchased two females a few days ago to acclimate and add to my others and was told i was the second to purchase this week xD for the same thing.

Unfortunately after a 12+ hours of acclimating they were both dead in the morning in the main tanks.

My current mollies eat algae more than anything. the two in my 29g cleared a diatom bloom.

 

[Jimbo_Slice]

Coral and fins off of Hillsborough. Lee there is what made me get them. I only paid a dollar each.

 

[nawilson89]

Coral and fins off of Hillsborough. Lee there is what made me get them. I only paid a dollar each.

Jeez. I got to go over there then.

Thanks!

 

[donnievaz]

I did a pair of black sailfins about a month ago. Nothing special, I acclimated them over about 2 hours just adding an ounce or so of tank water every 10 minutes or so. The next day, one was MIA which is not that strange for my tank unfortunately. The other one is happy and healthy. I haven't seen it eat much algae but I've seen it picking on occasion. It mostly just swims around near the surface and being all black it's hard to see. Kind of a waste actually...

 

[Jimbo_Slice]

I agree with donnievaz. Mine really have not done much. The first week mine only stayed at the top. Only now and I think because she was pregnant have they decided to hide in a big piece of live rock that they can go into.

The only thing i have seen them pick at was some algae growth on my back of the tank.

I will say that my emerald crab has been a algae eating machine.