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Wow! I just cycled my first aquarium. A 29 gallon tall. My first black Molly took my heart lol. He instantly dominated his school of 5 he picks on everyone😂. He doesn't nip them just chases them away when others get near him. I have a water puppy now!
I was given a balloon molly as a gift for my son’s tank and she just had babies (fry?). I was so shocked! Thank you for this video since I need all the help I can get.
By far the most informative fish keeping channel I have found, Because of y’all I have vastly improved the quality of life for my fish and set up some super cool tanks. Keep up the great work!
Yeah! I lost my first group of mollies and platies to ich! It was terrible and heartbreaking! I miss those fish so badly! Lost some of my favorite fish! I was very new to the hobby though when that happened. I have learned a lot since then.
Got my molly a year ago, he was white with a few black specks. Now he is almost completely black 😃 and greets me everytime i pass the tank like a dog wagging his tail! He eats out my hand and taught the other fish that came after him how to eat from moms hands too
I love your videos! I really like that you show mostly footage of the fish while you are talking. Ironically, it helps me pay attention to all the info in the video and it is just cool to see different fish that aren't in my tanks.
I absolutely love my mollies. I've got some black mollies in a 29 gallon community tank with a betta and a corydora. They are super active and so much fun to watch!
I was about to say, I've never heard them to be aggressive until this video haha. I have a molly in with my betta and they do great... planning on getting more.
The deal with the salt is that many breeders use brackish water to breed them. It's not that they need salt, it's that when they get to the pet store, they have just been moved to freshwater. A lot of them don't survive the changeover. Thats where the whole salt issue started.
I've never had any problem with them surviving but 90% of the time when there bred and raised in brackish water they wont breed in 100% freshwater but when I've bought them as babys they've bred
As a long time goldfish owner, I have changed to keeping a few of these guys and by the sounds of this video they will be much easier to keep. Really excited about these guys!
Mollies! Love the info! I FIND keeping them with some salt they seem to fair very well but I AGREE Hard water Alkaline water is a must for success adding coral Texas holey rock seashells is more important than adding salt.Under low p.h. soft water and these fish will fair miserably and quickly succumb to disease. And yes they can become semi aggressive if not kept in a group. Great video!
We are super new to keeping fish, used mollies to set up our 10 gallon tank. Being new the water got bad a couple times during the cycle but the mollies were hardy and survived. Very cool fish, glad I found your channel!
Thank you for the comments at 10:55. I have four Mollies in a 20 gal and when I saw we had a pregnancy I was worried. I did all this research to see best practices, and was super stressed out due to conflicting information. One particularly busy weekend, she gave birth and I am not completely sure when it occurred. However, I am grateful that I was not witness to it because by the time I noticed, the fry and parents/other Mollies were co-habitating JUST FINE. The adults hardly even noticed the fry, let alone snack on them. I made sure to gauge behavior though. So I would say don’t trip too much about it - just keep them fed and the fry should be fine. I attempted to count on the day of birth (or following day- unsure) and I counted roughly fifteen fry. Now that they are larger, I count 13 or 14 every time so I don’t think any babies were ever sacrificed to the hunger gods. ;)
I have a friend that had this a really nice large molly swimming around with some clownfish! I did a double take and I couldn’t believe it was totally adapted to saltwater.
Black molly is the only fish that survived in my tank , heater bursted and water temp went from 24 to 38 and after that he was in tank with 18C temp because of no heater after i cleaned it and added new water ( he was in a cup for night until the new water stayed) and also survived some soap , he is today pretty happy with new friends 18 of other fish and 1 other new molly, isn't agressive , only defends other fish and is pretty happy guy overall , i love him !
There’s a ditch next to my work that has sailfish Mollies in it and the water is nearly acidic. They thrive in there, like to watch them when work is to much lol
I do love Mollies. My dad actually bought a Molly female from Wal-Mart, back in the 80's. She was fairly plain looking and just gray but she gave birth to three lovely Dalmatians while we were floating her bag in the aquarium after bringing her home, lol. My favorite are the solid black standard tail/fin variety. We kept ours in a 55 gallon community tank way back then. I can't remember all of the other tank mates but there were probably some albino cory's, platies, sword tails, etc.
@@matthewberry9648 Yep that's the only time that has ever happened in the bag. I'm sure we've bought pregnant live bearers over the years but yep that one molly was by far the most memorable.
I got my first ever fish, four days ago. One male and three female Molly's. Two days later, I have four babies in my tank. One of my ladies must have come pregnant. Lucky surprise, so glad I picked them.
Oh I absolutely love this tank! .. I think that it looks really cool. I love mollies, my husband and I were just talking about guppies,Molly's and swordtails and how we kept them as kids..I always remember going into the pet stores or Kmart and wishing for the black Molly's.. I remember getting some about 15 years ago and not having any luck with them so I never tried them again. Thank you for this video because this is a beautiful fish that I would like to keep again! I hope you all have an amazing day and thank you for sharing! 🐟🌱🌿
One of my earliest memories is dipping my tiny fingers in the aquarium and the black Millie’s swimming around my fingers. And watching for they only babies! We always had black mollies, and I’m setting up a 20 gallon now and I may just do all kinds of mollies!
@@fishingaddicts4739 Sailfin Mollies are native to Florida. I used to catch them on a regular basis in a nearby water feature on a golf course. They make wonderful freshwater, brackish and even saltwater tankmates.
That's exactly true. I have a tank with now 2 mosaic guppy and now 1 black Molly and 1 albino pleco. Used to be very calm with the other 6 mollies but the store I got them from they came with diseases and 6 died. Auquarium salt saved these guys. The single pregnant black Molly chases and nips the guppy fins
Holy carp!!! You’re in the Chicago area, that’s awesome!!! Good to know there are you tubers in my area!!! I’m currently clearing out a spare bedroom in order to make my own aquarium gallery.
I have gold dust molly. I heard of a really cool set up where you do mollies with brackish water and narites snails so the snails eggs hatch into larvae and the mollies eat it. Video looks hilarious with all black mollies they just look like silhouettes
These are my favorite fish. I have Yellow Lyretail, Golden Panda Lyretail and my ⭐ male, an Albino Platinum Sailfin Lyretail Molly and his mate who is a white Sailfin Molly. I now have four 20 gallon plastic tubs with all their offspring separated by colors. Hoping to start selling them to my LFS and possibly Aquabid. They breed prolifically if your tank is cycled/seasoned correctly. So, be prepared!
Last year: with 50 tanks we always got something going on last week: with 70 tanks we always got something going on Today: with 80 tanks we always got something going on! 😂😂👌
How accurate are hygrometers? I just bought a refractometer and compared to my hygrometer. Marked difference! Hygrometer reads 1.006; refractometer reads 1.002. I use roughly 1/2 cup seasalt to 5 gallons water in a brackish tank. My goal is 1.006 to 1.008 to accommodate Mollies, Figure 8 Puffers and Knight Goby. At the same time, I don't want to off my plants.
@@DankDaHerbalist WOW!!! What a lot going on there, dude! Great effort! So amazed that you can keep up with 80 TANKS TO THIS DAY! Keep up the amazing work!
100% agree there a lot more aggressive with one or two in a community of other fish they chased and attacked my others but with just mollies they did way better off
I've heard from many people that mollies can be a bit aggressive and fin-nippy, but man are they pretty fish. They're a good size for a larger tank (agree with 40-breeder as min size for them). I only have a 20L and intended to get guppies but fell in love with some gorgeous platys at petco. They do have a very similar body/fin shape.
hi so I need an opinion I got 2 balloon mollys 1 normal molly and 1 platy so if i leave my balloon molly in the same tank and she's given birth are the other fish including her gonna eat the babies? I don't have another fish tank to put her in
I've recently started keeping livebearers (swords, mollies, and Platties) in my community tank, with a Severum, Blue Acara, Apisto, and Ram. They all seem be getting along great! I never paid any attention to these fish, but now I'm way into them.
I had a few white mollies in a community 55. The heater broke one day and when I got home it was 90+ degrees in the tank. Maybe high 90’s I don’t remember. The only thing I remember is that everything was dead but the mollies. The mollies were a BRILLIANT bright bright white and swimming around like nothing was wrong. They looked incredible. I’ll never forget it.
❤ Love my mollies! ❤ Had them for years. I have a 54 gallon corner tank. I successfully keep my mollies with Platys, neon tetras, long fin tetras, black skirt tetras, corys, aftican dwarf frogs, 3 female bettas and a pleco. I also have a lone goldfish that I'm fattening up before he goes to my pond. I actually don't have any aggressive mollies. It's funny because the each fish sticks with their own species. I'll have a platy fish that will chase other platys and sometimes have an attitude. My mollies are sweet. Maybe its the size tank? They also leave the fry alone. Out of all my fish the mollies are the least likely to try to eat the fry. I feed them twice a day so they are never starving. My African dwarf frog is the biggest fry eater. He sits and waits for them in the heavily planted sections 😅
About a yr ago I got a tank of mollies from a friend who was looking to rehome them and they were breeding for her and they're still breeding. I have no idea how many there are in the tank but when it's feeding time they all come sworming to the front of the tank, you'd they're starving.LOL. My friend kept them in brackish water, so I do also keep them in the same.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics ok, I just worry because I know when Guppies inbreed they get weaker and weaker and some of them come out deformed. I just don't want that happening with Molly's.
My local Petco often brings in beautiful livebearers. A few years ago I bought a group of 5 gorgeous golden sailfin mollies but they all had shimmies. I put them into a standard 15 gallon tank with no other fish and added a tbl spoon of salt right away and maybe another teaspoon that night. I lost two of them but by the end of the 2nd day the shimmies were gone and I was able to keep them for over 2 years. I am convinced that adult mollies need some level of salt to stay healthy and I found out that most mollies that are raised in Asia are kept in a brackish mix of seawater and fresh. I have experimented with more mollies of different types and found the young do just fine in fresh water but after becoming adults they get uncomfortable at some point and the fix is some level of salt and the question is how much per gallon and there is lots of opinions on this but I am in the pro salt crowd based on observation in my fish room.
@Le Baguette My experience is limited to sailfin mollies, here in Florida wild silver sailfins are found in brackish water. I have a wild population that lives nearby.
Great video! We have about a dozen Platy fish and a couple of bamboo shrimp in a 29 gallon tank. Would a single Molly be ok with our Platy group or could we get two of the same sex since we are not trying to breed them?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Thanks for the reply. I may still risk it based on mostly positive reports of no issues. I've dealt with aggression in my old salt water tank and was successfully got 14 clown fish to play nice. I'm just a little worried about the male guppies with that longer tail fin. I'm super attentive with my aquarium and will deal with aggression as it happens. But I do appreciate the heads up.
Quick question. I have a black molly that has a white spot on both sides, on their gills. I dont think it's ick, because none of the other guppies in my tank have it... What could it be? Its just on their gills, no where else, I might also add that my tank is literally nearly perfect as far as paramters and such go.
I love those black mollies and then the orange ones and sailfins. I found they love nibbling on cheerios and they also ate blanched zucchini slices I put in the tank for plecos. Have very hard water here and have always added some salt. You are spot on about the shimmies and ich. Need to keep them well fed and water clean. WHAT STATE ARE YOU IN? I live in northwest NJ. There were a lot of tropical fish stores here years ago. Right now, not so many but there are still quiet a lot in eastern NJ near NY City.
I have 3 black mollies, 2 gold dust, and 6 Dalmatian mollies with Freddy The Blue Gourami, a rubber lip pleco, ghost shrimp. They are all in a 40 gallon high and I’ve never had any behavior issues with any of them. They all do their own thing. I really want to upgrade my Goldfish tank to a 90 gallon and put all my fish in my molly tank in my 55 gallon
We have 2 mollies, 2 male bettas, 1 moonfish, 3 neon tetras and 6 guppies in one 80 liter tank with some plants and hiding places and it's one happy family. No nipping, no jumping or window surfing, no territorial behaviour, great colours, active etc. Couldn't be happier 😀 The bettas and mollies swim side by side when feeding, Keith the moonfish goes bottomdwelling and guppies are everywhere lol
I bought some mollies for my son when he was about 3-5 yrs old (35 yrs ago). He liked watching them having babies. I also had guppies and platies. Never had any aggression issues. The only problem they had was ick. Mine never ate their fry. 👍☺
I have a Betta fish n then bought a male Molly n later 3 females now I have about 40 fry in nursery tank. Only thing I found was the male Betta n male Molly wanted to be boss but in a funny way when I was around. I also have red eye tetras, neon, Cory's, bristlenose, did have a loach but he jumped out a week after my beloved male Molly 😭
Mollies are great fish. I have some lyretail mollies that until today were in an outside unheated mini pond. For the last 2 weeks the temperature has fluctuated and sometimes the nighttime temp was down to 50F (10C) and today the daytime temp was only up to about 60F (15C) and finally I had the time to bring them inside and they all look amazing and even the smallest fry from the latest drop were happy and healthy. I can't believe how adaptable these fish are. They are beautiful, really friendly and will eat out of my hand, have fry all the time and after my experience this summer I really think as long as the water isn't frozen they'll live in it and be happy 😅
@@KimSie13 I put all my fry in a 55 gallon barrel drum outside, but I live in S.C. and it doesn't get that cold here. The barrel is sunk in the ground so it has ground heat, it is like a pound. I tried to sell the babies but nobody wants them.
@@afnan2665 They will eat them if they are hungry and can get to them, I keep them fed and have lots of plants floating and planted for the fry to hide in until they are big enough to not be eaten or until I transfer them to a new tank or my pound.
I've kept mollies and platies and guppies together for almost 2 years. I have found the platys and mollies to be similar in that males will harass males of own species, same with females harassing females. Never saw interspecies fighting. The guppies males always bother their females. Never had any crossbreeding. All produced lots of offspring.
I've had mollies, sailfins and platys. I once had a pair of pearly white sailfins so I want to see if I can get either dalmatian mollies or more white ones.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I'm curious to see how a strain of live bearers (guppy,endler,platty,molly,ect.) Would look after like 5-10 generation, and after years of being in saltwater. If anything, they would probably be alot brighter just from all the minerals in saltwater.
Ive lost 3 of my four mollies because they lost their balance and grew weak, constipation on the balloon molly. GH of the water should be good, having added gh salt. PH is 6.7 25 degrees celsius, decent filter for the tank. I believe two of them died because of the stress induced by the dwarf gourami in the tank (which lead to them losing their balance swimming head down). Now only my black molly is left, i got him first and he seems to be in great shape. unsure if i should buy more? the gourami was given away
I have a 75 with two Angels, panda mollies, Dalmation mollies, tetras, blue Rams, black neons, and one large sailfin Molley, which is the bully of the tank. He has harassed several females to death. I have one other female and he has been circling her relentlessly. I'm not sure what to do by adding more. I may have to get rid of the tank bulley.
Amazing quality video! I just subbed. I have a concern with a choice I just made that you or any of your viewers might be able to help me with. I have an 85 gal tall hexagon tank ( 75 degrees) with 1 giant comet goldfish that I cought while fishing years ago. He's about 14". I just put 8 Molly's in with him hoping they would use the bottom structure to stay clear of him but they seem to love chasing his big floating pellets around on the surface right where he eats. Lol. I'm a bit concerned that he's going to suck them up, but so far they seem much to fast for him. I've had other small minnows in with him before ( crappie minnows ) and he's never tried to eat them. My plan is to keep the big boy well fed. Have any of you guys seen a goldfish eat a Molly or similar sized fish? Thanks in advanced! Sorry for the long comment. :)
I haven't seen that combo. They are faster for sure. I don't think he will intentionally go after them, but I wouldn't be surprised if you find one missing from time to time.
For once somebody mostly got it right. I agree with most of what you said, despite what ever your friends have said, I think the salt is still important, keeping the water hard and alkaline is really important, however when it comes to the salinity, I found in over 5 years of experience breeding mollies, it needs to be between 1.3 and 1.6. For certain types like sailfin mollies or golden sailfin mollies, black mollies DONT require salt at all unless you're treating them. As you said mollies tend to suffer more with ich more than other fish, this is where that slight salinity level comes in use, as it prevents it up until extreme cases where the fish have become over stressed from pH spikes or the water becoming too acidic. Thats when they break out ill, when the water parameters shift from that 8 to 8.5. Black mollies prefer a pH of 6.5
I added a Dalmatian lyrtail mollie and added him and a snail to my newly cycled 10 gallon and after watching this I’m wondering if that is not going to work out very well.
Recently bought my first mollies ever! Black and gold, platy size, 2F and 1M. Heat quarantined (87 degrees) for seven days and then watched for another seven. Now in a 60g. Should be fun!
You want 1 Male to 2-3 females.. the males will be harassing that female and drive her crazy when they want to breed. You want more females to give her a break and allow her to relax so she doesn't lose her fry.
I found all my mollies in a local spring out by lake mead, the PPM's in that water is over 1800, thats right 1800 and it is 80+ year round. i still havnt tested the PH in that water yet.
just got two mollys from the pet store 3 days ago....today there was 13 fry hiding up the top corner of the tank had to learn how to be a fish dad in a few hours today after catching them so they dont get eaten lol fun times ....
I got a marble sailfin and one black molly, the marble is picking on him all the time im at my tethers edge, also at feed time he tries to chase all the other fish away from the food.
I have 2 female and 1 male mollie with my male betta fish. I think one female mollie is pregnant (just got her for a few days), her belly seems bigger. I do want to try to keep the fry but I’m not experienced at all, this is my first aquarium. What do you suggest I do? Buying an extra aquarium is not in my budget now. Could get a fish bowl of some sort to create a nursery but is that needed?
The easiest thing to do is try to keep the fish well-fed, without over-feeding. That cuts down on fry predation a lot. Also, if you can get some floating plants like horwort that will give the fry a place to hide out a little and cut down on predation as well. You can also remove the fry to a new tank, but they can produce a lot when they get going, so that might be cumbersome. Hope this helps!
awesome molly fish information and deep dive into molly fishes, yes i just subscribed and cheers 80 fish tanks are WOWOW SUPER Awesome "O how do you manage and maintain 80 fish tanks?
Thank you for being here. We generally split up our maintenance on three different days. We have a waste water system that allows us to drain multiple tanks at the same time.
Just established my first fish tank ... first 2 mollies in today so hopefully they do well... however the 6 neon tetra four have already dead... sad times
What would happen if I took a dalmation molly male (he is mostly silver with smallish black dots) and bred it with a gold dust (back half black, front gold)? I bought two mollies to nitrogen cycle my new tank, and now after watching different videos I'm playing with the idea of trying to breed and sell to my local store to pay for more stuff. The two fish described are what I have bought so far. So to boil it down, will I mostly get a variation of the parents or will it vary greatly? Is it going to make bland or weird looking fish that potentially wont have as much retail value? What happens if I go back to my local store and buy 2 more females of a different pattern and throw them in the mix? Thx for any help. I really love the very in depth videos and I see you clearly go back and look at recent comments so I figured I'd see what you thought. I've been looking and I've found inconsistent info on mixing mollies.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I've read that some people think there are issues with excessive inbreeding sometimes. Was thinking a more diverse crowd would cut down on this. Is that true? I dont so much mind if they dont bring top dollar for mollies, but hopefully they make something atleast sellable. I guess I will find out lol.
I just bought two black mollys and a dolmation. The dolmation has ick I'm treating the whole tank but one of the black mollys is shaking back and forth and I don't know why. It does not appear to have ick.
Dalmatian/Black Mollies seem to work well with Ram Fish (German Blue) from my experience. I even had a Blue Crayfish (?) that inhabited the same tank without much issues. Also, how long do the babies take to reach adulthood size?
If you want to learn more about fish that can go with mollies check out the species profiles below:
Electric Blue Acara: ruclips.net/video/FvT_E4toJQ0/видео.html
Rhinogobius hencheuensis: ruclips.net/video/4jnPLvunSwY/видео.html
Berdmorei Loach: ruclips.net/video/tsgGOadP74k/видео.html
Mystery Snail: ruclips.net/video/gWWx2JU_JEo/видео.html
Severum: ruclips.net/video/xnUJKMhr_nU/видео.html
Sajica Cichlid: ruclips.net/video/krgCFwnuANk/видео.html
Geophagus tapajos: ruclips.net/video/hPUhftdDhFc/видео.html
Clown Loach: ruclips.net/video/JeERiU0w9IQ/видео.html
Bristlenose Pleco: ruclips.net/video/RRt_tjOKY84/видео.html
How to keep baby fish alive: ruclips.net/video/KLyBXyy4AhM/видео.html
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You look so much like KGTROPICALS
i was wondering why my molly fight i hv lot of common molly and common molly are known as peaceful molly i was wondering why they fight
No matter what fish I'm into at the moment I have always and will always have black mollies.
Love your taste @Grumpy Mike's Fish! Mollies are great and always will be great!!!
I barely got mollies this year and one of my favorites is my black balloon female! She has so much personality!
Wow! I just cycled my first aquarium. A 29 gallon tall. My first black Molly took my heart lol. He instantly dominated his school of 5 he picks on everyone😂. He doesn't nip them just chases them away when others get near him.
I have a water puppy now!
I got one black Mollie and he's always on patrol,a silver and brown gold one,and 4 silver ones
@@Justpoppa93 my black Mollie fins pop out and he's chasing everybody
Thank you! My brother just got a molly ( he is 6 years old ) and I’m doing a bit extra research on them for him!
I didn’t realize mollys got six years old….😁😂😂
I was given a balloon molly as a gift for my son’s tank and she just had babies (fry?). I was so shocked! Thank you for this video since I need all the help I can get.
By far the most informative fish keeping channel I have found, Because of y’all I have vastly improved the quality of life for my fish and set up some super cool tanks. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
I've always found mollies to be very susceptible to ick as well. As long as you keep up with your maintenance and water changes they do fine though.
I have do many Molly's never had any problems with ick.. I'm just trying to get rid of all of mine and all thier babies please help
Yeah! I lost my first group of mollies and platies to ich! It was terrible and heartbreaking! I miss those fish so badly! Lost some of my favorite fish! I was very new to the hobby though when that happened. I have learned a lot since then.
Got my molly a year ago, he was white with a few black specks. Now he is almost completely black 😃 and greets me everytime i pass the tank like a dog wagging his tail! He eats out my hand and taught the other fish that came after him how to eat from moms hands too
Mine do that too! They are so funny - all bunched up on one side of the tank when they think it's time to eat. :-)
Our mollies too! Dalmatians turn more black also here. And they're so cute and smart and active just lovely 😍
I love your videos! I really like that you show mostly footage of the fish while you are talking. Ironically, it helps me pay attention to all the info in the video and it is just cool to see different fish that aren't in my tanks.
I absolutely love my mollies. I've got some black mollies in a 29 gallon community tank with a betta and a corydora. They are super active and so much fun to watch!
Wow my exact tank setup lol!
I was about to say, I've never heard them to be aggressive until this video haha. I have a molly in with my betta and they do great... planning on getting more.
@@whitevalleyacres
One of mine was a b*tch, especially when pregnant
@@iplayguitarmain7670aren't those corydoras just some of the cutest little things??
The deal with the salt is that many breeders use brackish water to breed them. It's not that they need salt, it's that when they get to the pet store, they have just been moved to freshwater. A lot of them don't survive the changeover. Thats where the whole salt issue started.
I've never had any problem with them surviving but 90% of the time when there bred and raised in brackish water they wont breed in 100% freshwater but when I've bought them as babys they've bred
As a long time goldfish owner, I have changed to keeping a few of these guys and by the sounds of this video they will be much easier to keep. Really excited about these guys!
The best fish to have is the black mollies because whenever it gets ich you can notice it instantly because of the small white dots
When i kept them they always got ich .
Also black moors, but I've never had a black moor get ich
Fr, had a beautiful white betta once and I didn’t catch it till it was really bad. Managed to save him tho
Mollies! Love the info! I FIND keeping them with some salt they seem to fair very well but I AGREE Hard water Alkaline water is a must for success adding coral Texas holey rock seashells is more important than adding salt.Under low p.h. soft water and these fish will fair miserably and quickly succumb to disease. And yes they can become semi aggressive if not kept in a group. Great video!
Mollies are my favourites. They are very active and indeed are fun watching. But you are right; some do get quite aggressive.
Your 55g lowboy has inspired me to set up a 55g molly species tank. This video is super helpful while I'm in the planning phases!
Hope you enjoy it!
We are super new to keeping fish, used mollies to set up our 10 gallon tank. Being new the water got bad a couple times during the cycle but the mollies were hardy and survived. Very cool fish, glad I found your channel!
Thank you for the comments at 10:55. I have four Mollies in a 20 gal and when I saw we had a pregnancy I was worried. I did all this research to see best practices, and was super stressed out due to conflicting information. One particularly busy weekend, she gave birth and I am not completely sure when it occurred. However, I am grateful that I was not witness to it because by the time I noticed, the fry and parents/other Mollies were co-habitating JUST FINE. The adults hardly even noticed the fry, let alone snack on them. I made sure to gauge behavior though. So I would say don’t trip too much about it - just keep them fed and the fry should be fine. I attempted to count on the day of birth (or following day- unsure) and I counted roughly fifteen fry. Now that they are larger, I count 13 or 14 every time so I don’t think any babies were ever sacrificed to the hunger gods. ;)
I have a friend that had this a really nice large molly swimming around with some clownfish! I did a double take and I couldn’t believe it was totally adapted to saltwater.
How is that even possible?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
The sailfins kind do especially good in 100% seawater
HOLY that one black molly at 1:00 is HUGE
Black molly is the only fish that survived in my tank , heater bursted and water temp went from 24 to 38 and after that he was in tank with 18C temp because of no heater after i cleaned it and added new water ( he was in a cup for night until the new water stayed) and also survived some soap , he is today pretty happy with new friends 18 of other fish and 1 other new molly, isn't agressive , only defends other fish and is pretty happy guy overall , i love him !
There’s a ditch next to my work that has sailfish Mollies in it and the water is nearly acidic. They thrive in there, like to watch them when work is to much lol
I have 3 Dalmatian mollies and they are super fun to watch anytime they see you they swim up to get food.
My dalmatian molly just gave birth today to 15-30 babies..im excited
@@lisaeleanor8559 yeah bought mine like 2 months ago and now I have 8babies Molly’s
I do love Mollies. My dad actually bought a Molly female from Wal-Mart, back in the 80's. She was fairly plain looking and just gray but she gave birth to three lovely Dalmatians while we were floating her bag in the aquarium after bringing her home, lol. My favorite are the solid black standard tail/fin variety. We kept ours in a 55 gallon community tank way back then. I can't remember all of the other tank mates but there were probably some albino cory's, platies, sword tails, etc.
That is really cool!
4 for the price of 1
@@matthewberry9648 Yep that's the only time that has ever happened in the bag. I'm sure we've bought pregnant live bearers over the years but yep that one molly was by far the most memorable.
I got my first ever fish, four days ago. One male and three female Molly's. Two days later, I have four babies in my tank. One of my ladies must have come pregnant. Lucky surprise, so glad I picked them.
Oh I absolutely love this tank! .. I think that it looks really cool.
I love mollies, my husband and I were just talking about guppies,Molly's and swordtails and how we kept them as kids..I always remember going into the pet stores or Kmart and wishing for the black Molly's.. I remember getting some about 15 years ago and not having any luck with them so I never tried them again. Thank you for this video because this is a beautiful fish that I would like to keep again! I hope you all have an amazing day and thank you for sharing! 🐟🌱🌿
I was the same way - when I was a kid I loved black mollies!
Dalmatians are pretty too and they always turn more black. I completely adore them!
One of my earliest memories is dipping my tiny fingers in the aquarium and the black Millie’s swimming around my fingers. And watching for they only babies! We always had black mollies, and I’m setting up a 20 gallon now and I may just do all kinds of mollies!
My favorite are old black mollies and wild style giant saifin mollirs
Lovin' my Dalmatian Creamsicle Dumbo Sailfins
I have a wild sailfin molly that I caught in Miami,after probably being released by someone who couldn’t take care of it!
@@fishingaddicts4739
Sailfin Mollies are native to Florida.
I used to catch them on a regular basis in a nearby water feature on a golf course.
They make wonderful freshwater, brackish and even saltwater tankmates.
Yes I have it in a 29 gallon and hoping to move it to a 50 gallon with some blue acaras!
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I'm not sure Blue Acaras are the best tank mates.
I'm already expecting severe bullying
Major kudos for pointing out that nitrate is not the only cycle!
Complete ecosystems mean so much more than simply “no ammonia”
That's exactly true. I have a tank with now 2 mosaic guppy and now 1 black Molly and 1 albino pleco. Used to be very calm with the other 6 mollies but the store I got them from they came with diseases and 6 died. Auquarium salt saved these guys. The single pregnant black Molly chases and nips the guppy fins
Those are good quality Black Mollies. I’m impressed. I don’t see any yellow, and you have one huge male. I bet he was a late developer
I really enjoyed that group!
Holy carp!!! You’re in the Chicago area, that’s awesome!!! Good to know there are you tubers in my area!!! I’m currently clearing out a spare bedroom in order to make my own aquarium gallery.
Very cool!
I have gold dust molly.
I heard of a really cool set up where you do mollies with brackish water and narites snails so the snails eggs hatch into larvae and the mollies eat it.
Video looks hilarious with all black mollies they just look like silhouettes
That is a cool idea. I know - black mollies are really hard to film. Haha
WOW!!! gold dust mollies! Beautiful fish!!! Keep up the great work @tom jo
i got gold dust too. their tails are so beautiful.
These are my favorite fish. I have Yellow Lyretail, Golden Panda Lyretail and my ⭐ male, an Albino Platinum Sailfin Lyretail Molly and his mate who is a white Sailfin Molly. I now have four 20 gallon plastic tubs with all their offspring separated by colors. Hoping to start selling them to my LFS and possibly Aquabid. They breed prolifically if your tank is cycled/seasoned correctly. So, be prepared!
i keep them in with platies and guppies and they all do very well
Last year: with 50 tanks we always got something going on
last week: with 70 tanks we always got something going on
Today: with 80 tanks we always got something going on!
😂😂👌
Pretty soon the only thing going on will be tank cleaning. Haha
@@PrimeTimeAquatics labor of love!
How accurate are hygrometers?
I just bought a refractometer and compared to my hygrometer.
Marked difference!
Hygrometer reads 1.006; refractometer reads 1.002.
I use roughly 1/2 cup seasalt to 5 gallons water in a brackish tank.
My goal is 1.006 to 1.008 to accommodate Mollies, Figure 8 Puffers and Knight Goby.
At the same time, I don't want to off my plants.
@@DankDaHerbalist WOW!!! What a lot going on there, dude! Great effort! So amazed that you can keep up with 80 TANKS TO THIS DAY! Keep up the amazing work!
@@Lazarusthefishboy im talking prime time they have like 80 tanks hahah I only have 8 tanks 😅
I LOVE the gold panda and gold dust mollies! My favorite fish ever!
100% agree there a lot more aggressive with one or two in a community of other fish they chased and attacked my others but with just mollies they did way better off
Black Mollies are so striking to me. Beautiful creatures.
I’ve had yellow Molly’s for a while. I’m thinking about getting a different color as well
I've heard from many people that mollies can be a bit aggressive and fin-nippy, but man are they pretty fish. They're a good size for a larger tank (agree with 40-breeder as min size for them). I only have a 20L and intended to get guppies but fell in love with some gorgeous platys at petco. They do have a very similar body/fin shape.
hi so I need an opinion
I got 2 balloon mollys 1 normal molly and 1 platy so if i leave my balloon molly in the same tank and she's given birth are the other fish including her gonna eat the babies? I don't have another fish tank to put her in
@Tara Rose Apply top to bottom water plants for the fry to hide.
I've recently started keeping livebearers (swords, mollies, and Platties) in my community tank, with a Severum, Blue Acara, Apisto, and Ram. They all seem be getting along great! I never paid any attention to these fish, but now I'm way into them.
Glad it's all working out well!
Wait, so you can keep EBAs with platys? I was thinking one for my 60g along with my platys but I was afraid it was too small.
I've got 4 mollies with a Dwarf Gourami, 6 Rummy nose and 2 Chinese Algae Eaters and they are most behaved community I've seen :)
I had black sailfin mollies that were acclimated to full salt water they would even breed in it
Wow!!! That's pretty cool! Great job! It's insane how mollies can acclimate to SALT WATER!
Lazarus the fish boy my buddy used to throw them in his snowflake eel tank and he used to feed the to his lionfish
I had a few white mollies in a community 55. The heater broke one day and when I got home it was 90+ degrees in the tank. Maybe high 90’s I don’t remember. The only thing I remember is that everything was dead but the mollies. The mollies were a BRILLIANT bright bright white and swimming around like nothing was wrong. They looked incredible. I’ll never forget it.
that's one beautiful tank. thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Thank you!
❤ Love my mollies! ❤ Had them for years. I have a 54 gallon corner tank. I successfully keep my mollies with Platys, neon tetras, long fin tetras, black skirt tetras, corys, aftican dwarf frogs, 3 female bettas and a pleco. I also have a lone goldfish that I'm fattening up before he goes to my pond. I actually don't have any aggressive mollies. It's funny because the each fish sticks with their own species. I'll have a platy fish that will chase other platys and sometimes have an attitude. My mollies are sweet. Maybe its the size tank? They also leave the fry alone. Out of all my fish the mollies are the least likely to try to eat the fry. I feed them twice a day so they are never starving. My African dwarf frog is the biggest fry eater. He sits and waits for them in the heavily planted sections 😅
About a yr ago I got a tank of mollies from a friend who was looking to rehome them and they were breeding for her and they're still breeding. I have no idea how many there are in the tank but when it's feeding time they all come sworming to the front of the tank, you'd they're starving.LOL. My friend kept them in brackish water, so I do also keep them in the same.
If you started with 5 and now there's that many, does inbreeding affect them? Like what if offspring breed? Will the babies be fine?
Yep - they usually do fine.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics ok, I just worry because I know when Guppies inbreed they get weaker and weaker and some of them come out deformed. I just don't want that happening with Molly's.
My local Petco often brings in beautiful livebearers. A few years ago I bought a group of 5 gorgeous golden sailfin mollies but they all had shimmies. I put them into a standard 15 gallon tank with no other fish and added a tbl spoon of salt right away and maybe another teaspoon that night. I lost two of them but by the end of the 2nd day the shimmies were gone and I was able to keep them for over 2 years.
I am convinced that adult mollies need some level of salt to stay healthy and I found out that most mollies that are raised in Asia are kept in a brackish mix of seawater and fresh. I have experimented with more mollies of different types and found the young do just fine in fresh water but after becoming adults they get uncomfortable at some point and the fix is some level of salt and the question is how much per gallon and there is lots of opinions on this but I am in the pro salt crowd based on observation in my fish room.
Mollies indeed need some level of salt.
I have actually kept a Sailfin in a saltwater tank.
Salt will eliminate the scourge of ich and velvet.
@Le Baguette My experience is limited to sailfin mollies, here in Florida wild silver sailfins are found in brackish water. I have a wild population that lives nearby.
Great video! We have about a dozen Platy fish and a couple of bamboo shrimp in a 29 gallon tank. Would a single Molly be ok with our Platy group or could we get two of the same sex since we are not trying to breed them?
You can certainly do that.
These care and breeding videos are my favorite 👌
Thank you!
What about platys and guppies as tank mates? I'm getting mixed information on this. I have a 55 gallon tank.
There’s a chance they could get bullied so I generally don’t mix them.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Thanks for the reply. I may still risk it based on mostly positive reports of no issues. I've dealt with aggression in my old salt water tank and was successfully got 14 clown fish to play nice. I'm just a little worried about the male guppies with that longer tail fin. I'm super attentive with my aquarium and will deal with aggression as it happens. But I do appreciate the heads up.
Lovely, informative video Jason. Keep it up.
Thank you!
I never expected to be this early, love your videos keep up the good work
Thank you!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Your welcome
Quick question. I have a black molly that has a white spot on both sides, on their gills. I dont think it's ick, because none of the other guppies in my tank have it... What could it be? Its just on their gills, no where else, I might also add that my tank is literally nearly perfect as far as paramters and such go.
Tough to say. Sometimes fish will get small white spots that come and go. Could be the beginning of ich or a more long lasting bacterial infection?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics She has had it for a while now, and none of the fish have it..
What is a good outlet timer that does not require wifi connection, and is not mechanical? I need one for my display tank away from the fish room.
I haven't used any that fit that description. Mine have always been mechanical, but we run maybe 10 in our fish room with no issues.
I love those black mollies and then the orange ones and sailfins. I found they love nibbling on cheerios and they also ate blanched zucchini slices I put in the tank for plecos. Have very hard water here and have always added some salt. You are spot on about the shimmies and ich.
Need to keep them well fed and water clean.
WHAT STATE ARE YOU IN?
I live in northwest NJ. There were a lot of tropical fish stores here years ago. Right now, not so many but there are still quiet a lot in eastern NJ near NY City.
We’re in IL
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Too far for me!
It's hard to find up-to-date info on Molly fish. Thank you for your video!! :)
Thank you!
Great video. An almost 6 inch Molly is something to see!
I have 3 black mollies, 2 gold dust, and 6 Dalmatian mollies with Freddy The Blue Gourami, a rubber lip pleco, ghost shrimp. They are all in a 40 gallon high and I’ve never had any behavior issues with any of them. They all do their own thing. I really want to upgrade my Goldfish tank to a 90 gallon and put all my fish in my molly tank in my 55 gallon
We have 2 mollies, 2 male bettas, 1 moonfish, 3 neon tetras and 6 guppies in one 80 liter tank with some plants and hiding places and it's one happy family. No nipping, no jumping or window surfing, no territorial behaviour, great colours, active etc. Couldn't be happier 😀 The bettas and mollies swim side by side when feeding, Keith the moonfish goes bottomdwelling and guppies are everywhere lol
Oh, hi Freddy!
I bought some mollies for my son when he was about 3-5 yrs old (35 yrs ago). He liked watching them having babies. I also had guppies and platies. Never had any aggression issues. The only problem they had was ick. Mine never ate their fry. 👍☺
Thanks for sharing your experience!
My black mollies are healthy when I bought them. And kept them. I've been watching the pet store I got them from and they do a great job with them.
I just got some today. Black Molly's and Dalmatian Molly s I was told by store person I can add 1 Betta to a community of these fish?
I have a Betta fish n then bought a male Molly n later 3 females now I have about 40 fry in nursery tank. Only thing I found was the male Betta n male Molly wanted to be boss but in a funny way when I was around. I also have red eye tetras, neon, Cory's, bristlenose, did have a loach but he jumped out a week after my beloved male Molly 😭
Mollies are great fish. I have some lyretail mollies that until today were in an outside unheated mini pond. For the last 2 weeks the temperature has fluctuated and sometimes the nighttime temp was down to 50F (10C) and today the daytime temp was only up to about 60F (15C) and finally I had the time to bring them inside and they all look amazing and even the smallest fry from the latest drop were happy and healthy. I can't believe how adaptable these fish are. They are beautiful, really friendly and will eat out of my hand, have fry all the time and after my experience this summer I really think as long as the water isn't frozen they'll live in it and be happy 😅
Glad they are working well for you!
I have my 3 Molly’s with my glo fish and a female betta and they all get along great
Your tank is magically beautiful 🤩
Thank you!
Started out with two now I think I'm at fifty plus. They're like the bunny rabbits of the aquatic world.
Ya, they can over run a tank with proper conditions! :-)
Same. I have no idea what to do with all these Babies!
@@KimSie13 I put all my fry in a 55 gallon barrel drum outside, but I live in S.C. and it doesn't get that cold here. The barrel is sunk in the ground so it has ground heat, it is like a pound. I tried to sell the babies but nobody wants them.
how do u breed your mollies? i thought the parents or other mollies will eat the baby?
@@afnan2665 They will eat them if they are hungry and can get to them, I keep them fed and have lots of plants floating and planted for the fry to hide in until they are big enough to not be eaten or until I transfer them to a new tank or my pound.
Can you put mollies with guppies, endlers, and platies?
I am, just pick one sex because there are some that will cross breed you a muppy or a matty lol
kimbria parran Really?
You can, but it works better when the populations are larger and in a larger tank. I find in smaller tanks the mollies harass the guppies and platys.
I've kept mollies and platies and guppies together for almost 2 years. I have found the platys and mollies to be similar in that males will harass males of own species, same with females harassing females. Never saw interspecies fighting. The guppies males always bother their females. Never had any crossbreeding. All produced lots of offspring.
can i keep black mollies with tinfoil barbs?
my tinfoil barb is 2 inches in size and probably stunted
they are almost the same size
They will probably get along ok
I've had mollies, sailfins and platys. I once had a pair of pearly white sailfins so I want to see if I can get either dalmatian mollies or more white ones.
Very nice video. 📺 I love all live-bearing fish. They are great for my harder well water. 😊. Thanks for all the information. 👍😎
Have you trying growing molly,guppy,ect. In all three freshwater, brackishwater, and saltwater? Is there any benefit, color difference. and growrate.
I had mollies in a brackish tank a long time ago, but didn't notice a difference.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I'm curious to see how a strain of live bearers (guppy,endler,platty,molly,ect.) Would look after like 5-10 generation, and after years of being in saltwater. If anything, they would probably be alot brighter just from all the minerals in saltwater.
Ive lost 3 of my four mollies because they lost their balance and grew weak, constipation on the balloon molly. GH of the water should be good, having added gh salt. PH is 6.7 25 degrees celsius, decent filter for the tank. I believe two of them died because of the stress induced by the dwarf gourami in the tank (which lead to them losing their balance swimming head down). Now only my black molly is left, i got him first and he seems to be in great shape. unsure if i should buy more? the gourami was given away
Part of the issue could be the low pH. Mollys prefer a pH closer to 8.
In your opinion do you think that 1 male and 4 female black mollies would be okay in a 10 gallon?
Probably not long term - they tend to be too active. I would prefer to have them in at least a 20 gallon.
Thank you.
I have a 75 with two Angels, panda mollies, Dalmation mollies, tetras, blue Rams, black neons, and one large sailfin Molley, which is the bully of the tank. He has harassed several females to death. I have one other female and he has been circling her relentlessly. I'm not sure what to do by adding more. I may have to get rid of the tank bulley.
In this case it might be best.
Amazing quality video! I just subbed.
I have a concern with a choice I just made that you or any of your viewers might be able to help me with. I have an 85 gal tall hexagon tank ( 75 degrees) with 1 giant comet goldfish that I cought while fishing years ago. He's about 14". I just put 8 Molly's in with him hoping they would use the bottom structure to stay clear of him but they seem to love chasing his big floating pellets around on the surface right where he eats. Lol. I'm a bit concerned that he's going to suck them up, but so far they seem much to fast for him. I've had other small minnows in with him before ( crappie minnows ) and he's never tried to eat them. My plan is to keep the big boy well fed.
Have any of you guys seen a goldfish eat a Molly or similar sized fish? Thanks in advanced! Sorry for the long comment. :)
I haven't seen that combo. They are faster for sure. I don't think he will intentionally go after them, but I wouldn't be surprised if you find one missing from time to time.
For once somebody mostly got it right. I agree with most of what you said, despite what ever your friends have said, I think the salt is still important, keeping the water hard and alkaline is really important, however when it comes to the salinity, I found in over 5 years of experience breeding mollies, it needs to be between 1.3 and 1.6. For certain types like sailfin mollies or golden sailfin mollies, black mollies DONT require salt at all unless you're treating them. As you said mollies tend to suffer more with ich more than other fish, this is where that slight salinity level comes in use, as it prevents it up until extreme cases where the fish have become over stressed from pH spikes or the water becoming too acidic. Thats when they break out ill, when the water parameters shift from that 8 to 8.5. Black mollies prefer a pH of 6.5
No way black mollies prefer 6.5. That’s too acidic
I added a Dalmatian lyrtail mollie and added him and a snail to my newly cycled 10 gallon and after watching this I’m wondering if that is not going to work out very well.
Hi. Thanks for the great video. Could you tell me how to check the ph of the water and how to fix it please? Thanks! Gorgeous tank!!
You can use test strips or a pH meter. I usually they to keep fish that do best in the pH I have
Hello Jason, could you do Swordtail Poecillidae fish profile?
My black molly and Dalmatian molly do amazing in my community getting more soon
Thanks sir, do goldfish tank need air from aerator? Thanks u from ur subscriber from indonesia
I would try to get a little circulation in there. They do better with it. Thanks for watching!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics aerator i mean air pump mr
Recently bought my first mollies ever! Black and gold, platy size, 2F and 1M. Heat quarantined (87 degrees) for seven days and then watched for another seven. Now in a 60g. Should be fun!
Hope you enjoy them!
You want 1 Male to 2-3 females.. the males will be harassing that female and drive her crazy when they want to breed. You want more females to give her a break and allow her to relax so she doesn't lose her fry.
@@JustineDoe89 You're right! That was a typo!!
Hi ,
I have a Molly which is sitting down of my tank. I change water one day before what can I do to help him feel normal again?
I found all my mollies in a local spring out by lake mead, the PPM's in that water is over 1800, thats right 1800 and it is 80+ year round. i still havnt tested the PH in that water yet.
Those are some crazy hardness numbers!
My little sister fell in love with the Dalmatian mollies could they be kept with a female betta?
That could be a tough combo, but might work better in a large (4ft) tank.
just got two mollys from the pet store 3 days ago....today there was 13 fry hiding up the top corner of the tank had to learn how to be a fish dad in a few hours today after catching them so they dont get eaten lol fun times ....
Congrats! That's always exciting!
Thanks for this video! Could you make a video about keeping and raising swordtail livebearers (if you haven't already)?
Funny you mention that because I am going to start a tank with them soon I hope. :-)
Prime Time Aquatics yay! Exciting... I just got my first trio of swordtails a few weeks ago and I’m loving them.
Nice video,, now i want to keek mollies , it been a while since i have keep them, really nice and fun fish..
I got a marble sailfin and one black molly, the marble is picking on him all the time im at my tethers edge, also at feed time he tries to chase all the other fish away from the food.
I have 2 female and 1 male mollie with my male betta fish. I think one female mollie is pregnant (just got her for a few days), her belly seems bigger. I do want to try to keep the fry but I’m not experienced at all, this is my first aquarium. What do you suggest I do? Buying an extra aquarium is not in my budget now. Could get a fish bowl of some sort to create a nursery but is that needed?
The easiest thing to do is try to keep the fish well-fed, without over-feeding. That cuts down on fry predation a lot. Also, if you can get some floating plants like horwort that will give the fry a place to hide out a little and cut down on predation as well. You can also remove the fry to a new tank, but they can produce a lot when they get going, so that might be cumbersome. Hope this helps!
Aren't the fish at 3:39 mark, platys, not Mollys, though?
They sure are!
awesome molly fish information and deep dive into molly fishes, yes i just subscribed and cheers 80 fish tanks are WOWOW SUPER Awesome "O how do you manage and maintain 80 fish tanks?
Thank you for being here. We generally split up our maintenance on three different days. We have a waste water system that allows us to drain multiple tanks at the same time.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thats so cool :D thks for sharing it and your experiences tells cheers "D
Hi I am first time aquarium hobby is molly s a good idea for first fish?
Did you make the 50 gallon lowboy yourself or did you buy it like that what are the dimensions I'm thinking about making one I love the style of it
You said the dimensions in the video sorry sometimes I'm foolish haha
Just established my first fish tank ... first 2 mollies in today so hopefully they do well... however the 6 neon tetra four have already dead... sad times
Sorry you lost the neons.
What would happen if I took a dalmation molly male (he is mostly silver with smallish black dots) and bred it with a gold dust (back half black, front gold)?
I bought two mollies to nitrogen cycle my new tank, and now after watching different videos I'm playing with the idea of trying to breed and sell to my local store to pay for more stuff. The two fish described are what I have bought so far.
So to boil it down, will I mostly get a variation of the parents or will it vary greatly? Is it going to make bland or weird looking fish that potentially wont have as much retail value? What happens if I go back to my local store and buy 2 more females of a different pattern and throw them in the mix?
Thx for any help. I really love the very in depth videos and I see you clearly go back and look at recent comments so I figured I'd see what you thought. I've been looking and I've found inconsistent info on mixing mollies.
You will most likely get hybrids, but I'm not sure they will bring a lot of money. Often the purer strains bring more.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I've read that some people think there are issues with excessive inbreeding sometimes. Was thinking a more diverse crowd would cut down on this. Is that true?
I dont so much mind if they dont bring top dollar for mollies, but hopefully they make something atleast sellable. I guess I will find out lol.
I just bought two black mollys and a dolmation. The dolmation has ick I'm treating the whole tank but one of the black mollys is shaking back and forth and I don't know why. It does not appear to have ick.
Usually when they do that it is an internal organ thing or they have ich but are not showing the spots yet.
Dalmatian/Black Mollies seem to work well with Ram Fish (German Blue) from my experience. I even had a Blue Crayfish (?) that inhabited the same tank without much issues.
Also, how long do the babies take to reach adulthood size?
Usually they reach adult size within 6-8 months.