SW or FW

SW or FW tank

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msouth468

msouth468

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I have a 55 gallon tank that I want to make a SW tank with. But I also have a 29 gallon FW tank that has love sick mollies in it. And at their current rate it won't take long to overpopulate the 29. So should I do a SW tank or a FW tank that I can put the new babies in when they get old enough.

Edit: I know I spelled Fresh wrong...dang it. :laugh:
 
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Well, I wouldn't put the Mollies in the salt water. I would just have to find a home for them.
 
I was visitng the LFS yesterday, just to look around and see what was new, and actually saw some mollies in a saltwater tank? They were balloon bellies and were in with a hodge podge of other saltwater fish. This highly surprised me and I was going to ask but there wasn't anyone around to ask. How can they survive in a saltwater tank?
 
Bitsy said:
I was visitng the LFS yesterday, just to look around and see what was new, and actually saw some mollies in a saltwater tank? They were balloon bellies and were in with a hodge podge of other saltwater fish. This highly surprised me and I was going to ask but there wasn't anyone around to ask. How can they survive in a saltwater tank?
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They are a brackish water fish. But most aquarium strains have adapted to live in freashwater. Just remember you can't put a freashwater Molly in a salt water tank.
 
Actually, with a few days of acclimation, they thrive in SW. I did an experiment a few years ago when battling hair algae. Bought some plain old male black mollies and slowly acclimated them, then quarantined them for a month in the mantis nano. They were very happy in the nano. I have rarely seen black mollies as fat and jet black as these guys once they were in SW. They would have been happy in the reef, too, except the female clown detested them and kept them in the corners. Banished to the sump.

But that's a digression.

Seems to me, using the 55 for mollies is a bit of a waste. They will fill that tank, too, so you will need to figure out how to get rid of them at some point anyway.
 
Huh...didn't know that I thought once they were in freash water they had to stay there. Learn something new everyday.
 
Feed the babies to an awesome SW fish. Sorry I have a knack for that Ive got some amazon leaf fish so Im kinda heartless. gut load the mollies if u go my way though.
 
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