GainesvilleReef
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It's a mix. 2-8 weeks. Adults are about 4 times that size.
Failed molly experiment: any tips for success?
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Wow, these pictures show fish MUCH bigger than mine. I wonder if mine were simply too young, in addition to all the risks inherently.
I put some super babies, much smaller then yours in a bucket with a hang on back filter and dripped them over 3 days and 5/12 made it. They were already sickly and unwell at the LFS so pretty sure some were already dying by the time I got home before I started the drip.
Mollies at some LFS are not very healthy IMO. Pretty sure I saved the ones that lived. The salt cured their diseases.
I only paid like 20 cents each or something because they were just little babies.
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The largest ones in the video are about the size I usually get.
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I have had third and fourth generation mollies in salt water and they got huge. The variety I used came from a clownfish hatchery in Purto Rico.
It is my experience that mollies are at risk with most reef tank fish.
I am presently setting up a macro lagoon as a mixed garden tank to highlight ornamental macros and inverts, including coral. As a source of nutrients, I will use mollies and treat them like large amphipods as the only fish. Just as some growout frag tanks are teeming with pods, they could also be teeming with mollies.
I used to think, lyre tail mollies did best. When I fist started marine aquarium, I have netted green mollies in the wild in fresh, brackish and full strength salt. Yes, I have used PerSmart mollies with varied success. In Austin, one LFS sells Black Mollies fully adjusted to salt.
It is my experience that mollies are at risk with most reef tank fish.
I am presently setting up a macro lagoon as a mixed garden tank to highlight ornamental macros and inverts, including coral. As a source of nutrients, I will use mollies and treat them like large amphipods as the only fish. Just as some growout frag tanks are teeming with pods, they could also be teeming with mollies.
I used to think, lyre tail mollies did best. When I fist started marine aquarium, I have netted green mollies in the wild in fresh, brackish and full strength salt. Yes, I have used PerSmart mollies with varied success. In Austin, one LFS sells Black Mollies fully adjusted to salt.
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Very likely was just the flow. You acclimated them properly.
Probably better to keep small mollies out of the reef environment since they can get stuck in rocks/swept away, etc.
Probably better to keep small mollies out of the reef environment since they can get stuck in rocks/swept away, etc.
