Mollys in a reef tank acclimation?

[Hoodstream]

I wanna put mollys in my main tank but wondered if anyone has any negative feedback to share or warnings, I also have an anenome in there so what’s the chances it immediately dies? Also what’s the best way I’ve seen people say slow acclimation and others say just drop it in and wanted a definitive answer.

edit: I know I’ve made a thread before but that was for a pico and received advice to not do it and respected that but it’s for a 40g reef tank with soft corals and lps. Few rock nems and a LTA.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I wanna put mollys in my main tank but wondered if anyone has any negative feedback to share or warnings, I also have an anenome in there so what’s the chances it immediately dies? Also what’s the best way I’ve seen people say slow acclimation and others say just drop it in and wanted a definitive answer.

Actually decades ago, these were the go-to . . to cycle a tank. They must be slowly acclimated to salt but are readily available, cheap in cost and will eat early stage green film algae
Black molly and sailfin mollies do best

 

[Hoodstream]

Actually decades ago, these were the go-to . . to cycle a tank. They must be slowly acclimated to salt but are readily available, cheap in cost and will eat early stage green film algae
Black molly and sailfin mollies do best

How fast you think it’ll become anenome food? Also I remember a guy with a ton of badges saying to just toss them in, would that immediately shock and kill them? I can get some for free from work and wanted to grab two but I’m not sure how slowly to acclimate.

 

[vetteguy53081]

How fast you think it’ll become anenome food? Also I remember a guy with a ton of badges saying to just toss them in, would that immediately shock and kill them? I can get some for free from work and wanted to grab two but I’m not sure how slowly to acclimate.

best to acclimate
If smart- theyll avoid nem

 

[Soren]

I have only freshwater experience with black mollies, so I cannot advise on acclimation. I do think a 40-gallon tank should work well for them, much better than a 3.5-gallon! My black molly freshwater tank is a 40-breeder.

From what I recall, @Lost in the Sauce has had much better survival with dumping mollies into saltwater rather than slower acclimation. I will let him offer more advice as he chooses.

Black mollies should be easy to come by, since they produce live young at rapid rates without much special care. I started with 6 in my 40-breeder and now have probably 50+ after less than a year.

 

[Hoodstream]

I have only freshwater experience with black mollies, so I cannot advise on acclimation. I do think a 40-gallon tank should work well for them, much better than a 3.5-gallon! My black molly freshwater tank is a 40-breeder.

From what I recall, @Lost in the Sauce has had much better survival with dumping mollies into saltwater rather than slower acclimation. I will let him offer more advice as he chooses.

Black mollies should be easy to come by, since they produce live young at rapid rates without much special care. I started with 6 in my 40-breeder and now have probably 50+ after less than a year.

Yes he actually is the one who commented to just drop them and I couldn’t remember who thank you! My work had babies and we raised them and since we can’t sku them since not received from authorized vendor they’re up for grabs going to just grab a few and try it out in multiple tanks. Not the pico tho lol.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Yes he actually is the one who commented to just drop them and I couldn’t remember who thank you! My work had babies and we raised them and since we can’t sku them since not received from authorized vendor they’re up for grabs going to just grab a few and try it out in multiple tanks. Not the pico tho lol.

It doesn't Always work but whereas I previously went two living to six dead with an extended Acclimating schedule, it didn't seem to actually Work.

I dropped 4 Petco mollies in last Friday, 2 into a live rock curing tub, two into the frag tank. 3/4 are still alive. The 1 dead was the flashiest in the frag tank and was ticking off the Springari.. it was dead Monday morning and had clearly been beaten the snot out of.

I'm definitely not the one with a lot of badges, but have actual timely experience in doing it..

 

[J's]

Aclimate slowly, I made the mistake to listen to the advise of just do a quick aclimation and dropped them, and they end up not making it

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

best to acclimate
If smart- theyll avoid nem

They aren't smart. They have no instinct to stay away from anenomes and do easily get eaten.

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Even if the salinity weren't a concern, you would still want to catch up with other parameters. Especially PH, freshwater fish are usually at 7.3, while ours are at 8.4. Give them two hours of drip acclimation just in case.

 

[Hoodstream]

It doesn't Always work but whereas I previously went two living to six dead with an extended Acclimating schedule, it didn't seem to actually Work.

I dropped 4 Petco mollies in last Friday, 2 into a live rock curing tub, two into the frag tank. 3/4 are still alive. The 1 dead was the flashiest in the frag tank and was ticking off the Springari.. it was dead Monday morning and had clearly been beaten the snot out of.

I'm definitely not the one with a lot of badges, but have actual timely experience in doing it..

Maybe you were in the thread but I do remember you commenting, appreciate advice.

 

[Hoodstream]

They aren't smart. They have no instinct to stay away from anenomes and do easily get eaten.

Well even though they’re free I don’t wanna just send them to die lol.

 

[vtecintegra]

I started with a black molly for quarantine purposes. Later on I added two dalmatians for algae control to the DT. I acclimate over 24 hrs. I like the dalmatians better than black. The black one is fat and happy, but it always seems to have a blemish or frayed fins. If you get more than two, get females. Males will relentlessly harass a female.

 

[Hoodstream]

So as a reference Incase anyone finds this thread in the future here is my results.
Tested with 4 Black Mollys, 2 Lyretail Creamsicles.
Drip acclimated 2 of the black mollys and temp acclimated the other 4.
All acclimated perfectly fine with drip and temp acclimation, currently down to 4 total though.
1 Lyretail got sucked into HOB Skimmer and became paste.
1 Black Molly swam right into my Anenome as if I called it.
1 Black Molly Looks like it’s evolving into a zombie.
2 Black Mollies perfectly fine in 20g Fiancés tank.
1 Lyretail moved to wife’s 20g doing fine.

Honestly wouldn’t recommend . One poor lad literally swam directly into nem. Other one was following my clowns around and saw it literally get sucked into Skimmer.

The rest are fine currently except for the one in my 40g who looks like he’s literally turning into some zombie creature.