jedimasterben Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Has any one ever haved mollie or guppies pick at there coral or shrimp? Nope, they're completely reef safe. Quote Link to comment
snowflake ell Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Nope, they're completely reef safe. That's sick! I was reading this thread and I wasn't sure if I read it right but was the best survival rate is minenimal drip method ? Or just dropping them in the tank? Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 That's sick! I was reading this thread and I wasn't sure if I read it right but was the best survival rate is minenimal drip method ? Or just dropping them in the tank? I had my first casualties with the drop method, so it looks like a quick drip is what they may need (like maybe 4-8 hours or so) Quote Link to comment
eddiecorrea Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I had a molly in my tank ONCE. Wife wanted it. So I dripped it for like 5 hours. It lasted awhile until I got rid of it. Boring fish. haha Quote Link to comment
1reefluvr2 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I had a molly in my tank ONCE. Wife wanted it. So I dripped it for like 5 hours. It lasted awhile until I got rid of it. Boring fish. haha So fancy tail gupies will take full reef settings? Quote Link to comment
eddiecorrea Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 So fancy tail gupies will take full reef settings? I had a lyre tail. People feed certain fish gupies. And I've seen them last in tanks for over a week before eaten. But I've never kept them longterm in saltwater. Quote Link to comment
1reefluvr2 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I had a lyre tail. People feed certain fish gupies. And I've seen them last in tanks for over a week before eaten. But I've never kept them longterm in saltwater. I would love to try it on my edge but i wouldnt want to kill a fish my lfs sells them for 10bucks so not cheap Quote Link to comment
eddiecorrea Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I would love to try it on my edge but i wouldnt want to kill a fish my lfs sells them for 10bucks so not cheap $10?! where do you live? Antarctica? They are like $3 at most here. Quote Link to comment
1reefluvr2 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 $10?! where do you live? Antarctica? They are like $3 at most here. I live in Cali the golden state Quote Link to comment
eddiecorrea Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I live in Cali the golden state People always say stuff is more expensive there but dang. Have you tried Petco or Petsmart? Quote Link to comment
1reefluvr2 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 People always say stuff is more expensive there but dang. Have you tried Petco or Petsmart? No I heard horror storys from those places so I dont support big stores just regular mom and pops shops Quote Link to comment
snowflake ell Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I had my first casualties with the drop method, so it looks like a quick drip is what they may need (like maybe 4-8 hours or so) i kind of wont to try this on my tank , but i dont wont to risk killing a 1 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 i kind of wont to try this on my tank , but i dont wont to risk killing a I would just drip them then. Keep an eye on them every couple of hours and if they look stressed, hold them at that salinity and wait til they calm down and start again. Quote Link to comment
Belac Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Are there any common larger brackish fish that might be interesting for like a 110 gallon reef? I think Monos too, I know they are full marine later in life. They are veyr much on the large size in my opnion. I also know Dragon Gobies can go full marine. (I have one in freshwater and he is nearing 18-20 inches.) Bull Sharks and Greenland sharks can be fresh/brackish/marine. If you put those in the tank we will require pictures. On the smaller side I know Bumble Bee gobies can as well. I keep thinking I am going to try them but I just don't have a container to drip acclimate them. This makes me wonder if knight gobies could be aclimated to marine. American Flag Fish would be another one that would be great if it can be acclimated, those guys are great hair algae eaters. Quote Link to comment
Archaic37 Posted December 22, 2012 Author Share Posted December 22, 2012 Well after a 3 hour drip acclimation and putting the little guy in the tank he has been just fine since I put him in there on the 16th Quote Link to comment
Chew_Magna Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Here ya go. I was mainly shooting my domino but you can see my molly. Still going strong after the dump/no acclimation. Quote Link to comment
Archaic37 Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 So turns out the molly I got was a female.. It was also pregnant! I have 8/9 babies in their own tank. Quote Link to comment
JamesHL88 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 woot woot babies ! Quote Link to comment
Archaic37 Posted January 3, 2013 Author Share Posted January 3, 2013 Does anyone have suggestions on what I should be feeding them? They munch on the chaeto in their tank and the pick at the sponge which has some algae on it. There are 11 in total (born 11/26) Quote Link to comment
Belac Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Might read up on breeding livebearing fish. Most of what they eat is micro stuff and rather hard to find starter cultures of. Grendal worms, banna worms, viningar eels. Quote Link to comment
rick12 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 They like cyclopese The powdered works fine. Don't over feed or it will pollute the water.. Good luck. Quote Link to comment
Tika Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Hi there! I ordered some mollies a couple of weeks ago and want to acclimate them to saltwater. I have two silver molly and four dalmatian molly. I'm just nervous about this as I don't want to kill them since I did order them and probably paid more than if I had bought them from Petco. My plan is for them to be breeders so I can feed my blue line grouper. I read they breed fast. Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 On 12/12/2012 at 9:29 PM, Archaic37 said: It is so weird how they survive better with minimal drip acclimation. It's not actually so weird....acclimation can actually be pretty hard on fish, especially ones that go on for hours and hours. IME it's harder to find healthy mollies than it is to acclimate healthy mollies to saltwater. Out of my first batch, one male and one female lived for about a week or two before the male died. The female subsequently released about 3 or 4 clutches of babies about 1 months apart after that. Several babies survived for months, but ultimately only one is still with me and growing to full size. I tried hatching baby brine shrimp for them and I guess that get them as far as they got....but I think there wasn't enough food for all of them to grow the way the tank was being fed at the time. I've tries two other times to add more males and 100% have died within a day, FYI. Check this paper out this paper on acclimation from Sustainable Aquatics: http://www.sustainableaquatics.com/docs/Acclimation-White-Paper.docx ...who by the way sells saltwater molllies: https://www.coralreeftn.com/shop.php (Check under Sustainable Aquatics Reef Fish > Misc) Quote Link to comment
Leo_ian Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Dusting off this thread... does can anyone help me fact check if guppies and bumblebee gobies can live in saltwater?, if they can i will start a black moscow collection with my banggai pair to feed them how about ricefish since they can live in brackish and are hardy af when i say bumblebee gobies i mean the freshwater ones Quote Link to comment
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