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I'm glad to see you covering mollies and other so-called "beginner's fish." I don't think they get enough love from hobbyists who are anxious to try something more exotic. I didn't know many mollies are raised overseas in brackish water -- that would explain why they so often look sickly in my local stores.
Yes! I thought my Molly dilemmas were my doing. Now that you've armed me with positive info, I can resume my love affair with mollies...properly. Thank You Much Corey!
@@AquariumCoop yo, from france !! watch your video frequently :) i wanted your help for a molly situation....tried everything. Currently keeping them in a well planted 80 l , nitrate 20/30 mg/l, ammonia free, 26 °c with hard water (around 250 ppm), those are my mollies, got them in pure water since birth.... they got a reddish vertebrae but it doesn't look like internal bleeding, they eat good, are active, feed them boiled carrots from time to time for colors and vitamins..... i'm trying catappa leaves to counter any nasty bacteria or unwanted fungus... but running out of ideas. pls help if you got any idea of wth is going on
I bought a bunch from Petco (I know....) and two and one female platy survived. Bought them two days ago and today I woke up to about ten or fifteen baby black mollies so I'm happy 😊
Good video - everyone says "easy to care for" and like you say, it all depends - when we lived in Portland, OR - I kept mine in brackish and they did great - I had some pushing 5" --- where I'm at now, with our well water at 8.8 pH most of time, I think I could raise them fine in fresh water - but we don't have any limestone or sandstone, so maybe I'd need a tiny bit of salt, but crushed corral would do great Your point on raising them in freshwater from fry is also right on point --- too many people don't actually understand these fish (including pet store workers)
I've found them to be just what you said, rather flexible in terms of salt but in need of hard water if not brackish --- I've got a friend that has some sailfins over 7 " that he keeps in a 300 gallon live reef tank - they are spectacular (they also like to jump long & high) --- he has a 6" extension on top and keeps his tank well covered LOL
Thank you so much!!!!! I haven't heard anybody talk about the salt in the water!! I have had so many problems with mollies, but all my other fish have been fine and so have my water parameters. No wonder my mollies keep dying or always look stressed! Thanks a ton!
I caught a wild sailfin male in Houston Texas out of Brays Bayou right behind my house. I have never owned a molly before so I have been trying to get my knowledge up. I was very surprised as I found it under a culvert in a puddle completely cut off from the actual bayou in some pretty horrible conditions. With him were several pregnant females I managed to scoop up as well. He has a beautiful electric blue tail and seems to be adjusting to my tank well so far. Its been two days so I'm hoping I'm in the clear for any issues but will stay on my toes while he is in quarantine.
I was immediately drawn to my new Golden Panda Mollies, at PetCo, because they were half and half yellow and black, which is a HUGE THING for me for personal reasons. But the two are my favorite color combo in life; cars, toys, knick knacks, clothes and sports gear, etc.i have mild OCD that makes my brain REALLY REALLY want to have and collect yellow things. I think the ultimate excitement for me would be having a school of neon yellow glow fish with like a blue/black light. I believe I would pull up a chair and just be able to watch them for a while.
I just have to say that I would be so lost without your channel. I spend Han hour every night just watching them and learning. A dream of mine is to have a nice big aquarium one day but I want to know EVERYTHING first!!
Thanks....I just lost 2 mollies. They just laid at the bottom of the tank. They didn't swim with their tales. I got 2 Sailfin Mollies before my others died (they were doing bad before I got the new ones). Your video helped me understand what could have gone wrong. Last water change didn't put salt in the water
This makes sense. I love how the ballon & dalmatian mollies look, but they died on me. I was told to buy ph down, get a pillow softener & my water is super soft now. It never made sense to me as to why they died when the test strips would all fall under "ideal".. it was really saddening seeing them pass. Thank you for this.
I've debated about Mollies. I've had them with little success. I thought they just preferred brackish water, so I stopped trying to keep them. Thanks for the tips. You've been a goldmine of info for me lately.
Thank you for letting me know how to properly care for my mollies! I didn't know I needed them in brackish water. I also never knew they eat algae. Thank you so much!
After having an African cichlid tank for quite a few years I decided to try my hand at livebearers. Understanding that they were not only more tolerant of hard/high ph water, but even thriving in it; it seemed a good swap. I had never had any success with mollies even surviving for very long when I was new to the hobby. But these things have gone bat**** on health and spirit. Easily surpassing the mollies in this video, these are fancy hybrids. No clue how many generations upon generations of offspring. I have to wonder if an African rift lake setup might not be the BEST for these fish. Not too brackish, not too fresh. Just right. And with a bit of good fortune even nerite snails will successfully propogate with this setup.
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Thank you so much for this video! Apparently the fish store gave me 3 males and 1 female! The poor thing was run ragged - considering there were guppies in the tank as well! I just got back from switching out 2 males for 2 females! Thanks for the great advice as always!
I just purchased marble mollies from Imperial Tropicals, Lakeland Fl. (They ship) They grow there own in ponds here and the water is not brackish! I have some mollies from overseas and the Fl grown. The Fl grown are doing better!
BTW I'm starting a sailfin Molly business. My female, platinum white sailfin Molly gave birth to 32 babies & they were born in freshwater. They're doing fine & are very healthy, active babies. The father is a platinum white sailfin Molly. They're beautiful. The sailfin mollies I have were ordered through sun pet. I've owned them too about a month in freshwater & they're doing just fine. Guess I got lucky. I just bought 4 sunset sailfin mollies & the females will give birth in about 2 more weeks. All KY sailfin mollies are 3in plus
I know it's an older video but I hope you're still listening. Did you say "can cross with guppies"? What does that produce? Is it viable to add traits? Can I make a blue delta tail molly with thoughtful crossing?
Molly x guppy hybrids are usually called muppies. From my research, the fry are almost always male and sterile. Their color and body shape are halfway between their parents'. If you do cross them, try to use colors/patterns that are known to be dominant, otherwise they probably won't show in the offspring.
I breed and raise all mine in full marine and brackish water, Sphenops, Latipinna, Velifera so on and I move them both young and adults to fresh all the time with 0 issues, and I do this with no acclimation at all (plop and drop) and their kidneys don't shut down, these fish are euryhaline and have no issue moving from one salinity to none at all, They don't adapt to only one, Only time I've ever have issues is if I keep them long term without proper minerals (Low TDS) as that causes rickets, anaemia and vitamin D deficiency from lack of potassium, calcium, magnesium and other vital TDS in the water, however low water quality when moving them to freshwater can cause major problems, and on top of that they are hypersensitive to ammonia and nitrite and if stressed can make alot of it fast, in saltwater nitrite isn't taken up by them so they are not used to it at all.
I've bred grey mollies (I'm not really sure what they're called) in brackish water and the parents were silver sailfin molly (M) and black fancy molly (F). At first I was expecting the fry to be either a dalmatian/marble/white/black but they all turned out to be greyish and two were white. When they matured the males had orange lines and spots on their fins. Didn't know where that came from and either the parents never had any orange on them plus my black molly was a virgin to start with.
Good info. I just buy a very good looking orange sailfin male from big chain petstore in Canada. It looks good for two days, then it starts swim stranghtly. The water parameter is perfect even my German blue ram is happy. I go back to the same petstore one week later to find out all of their mollies swim strangely too because they don't adapt in fresh water. I don't understand why such big chain fishstore (Petsmart) don't know this is a problem.
Cory I need help!!!!! I'm obsessed with mollies! the thing is I want them to be happy and healthy. I want to educate myself on mollies. I want the tank to have black and silver mollies. But I don't want to be a breeder. I understand they will breed you can't stop that. I heard in your video is that they eat most of the eggs or babies. This video was very informative!!!! Thank You so much! The size of my empty😩 tank is 30 but I hope soon it will be full. 😄 Thanks again Cory! hope to hear back from you soon.
WWETheStoryTeller Productions hey. even if they eat most of their babies there's going to be a good chance of them haveing lots of survivors. for example, I started with 3 and now I have over 50 now. i have generation 3 of molly. so I recommend that you want to have 1 male and 3 females ratio.
Molly fish are fun to keep. They get very rambunctious once they mature, and they can eat every morsel fed to them and will return to eating algae in the tank. They get big and look nice.
I have a pure brilliant yellow molly, 24k...my favorite fish of all now. I have to find more but they don't seem to be common. The one place I know that has a few only have males and I don't want to end up with fights.
You mentioned that mollies might crossbreed with guppies... what are the details of that? I would like to keep guppies (all male) and mollies (male and female) together, but what are the conditions under which crossbreeding would not be a concern?
Can you do some how to care videos on platys and swordtails, there is not any good videos on youtube about how to care for platys or swordtails, i've also had my mollies breed and i'm raising the babies in freshwater, they are doing great.
+Aquarium Co-Op oh ok awesome I look forward to it, i like your other videos, what brand of salt do you use for making a brackish water tank, i'm using api aquarium salt but i'd like to try another brand.
I wanna get a "premium" molly from Petco along with 2 normal females. Good thing I added some crushed seashells to my tank. They work great for raising pH.
Petsmart gave me a free baby molly when I went in to look around. The mollies they got in gave birth and only one baby survived. I was so lucky to get a free freshwater bred molly.
What if we buy them from the store and they are in freshwater and we put them in our brackish water? We keep our brackish water at the low end of it. Someone told me they don’t due well in a high ph. As of right now I’m trying to figure out my ph problem. Idk if this could be my problem but I can be bad of not getting out snail shells or claim shells out right away I give my figure eight puffer and yes they all get along. The puffer does not bother my mollies.
A friend of mine went out and got me a few mollies as a gift and I am attempting to speed research these things. How do you tell a male from a female? Will different coloration cross breed? (I have a dalmatian, a panda, and a black and gold in the mix for example and am unsure if this will lead to fry) Also they got me some swordfish thinking they were mollies, these don't cross breed or anything right?
I can confirm. My first fish that got me into the hobby was the dalmation molly. I live in California and the water is so hard that they actually breed in tap water here, no salt whatsoever.. My tap runs straight from a well, so straight from the ground basically and its California so our well is 400+ feet deep to get water so there's no real threat of pesticides were sprayed somewhere close by
mollies are one of my favs I keep them now. your totally right it's hard to find good healthy mollies. no matter where I go the black molly always look sick clamped fins or skinny looking.
Thanks this helps alot. I have mollies in a brackish tank with spotted puffers and apparently I breed them now, for now I am just netting the fry and transfering them to a freshwater grow tank. I hope to trade them in for some free stuff soon and then who knows...
How would a single male black molly fare in a community tank. I once had a beautiful black sailfin with some females but my space is limited and I'd love him to be among the showcase fishes in the tank.
My granddaughter just found a baby black molly in my 55 gallon community tank, I had no idea my tank even had the correct parameters for breeding, I'm new at keeping tropical fish....not sure which fish was/is pregnant or if there is/will be more fry...excited but super nervous. I'm sad also that there may have been more born that didn't survive since I didn't realize I had a pregnant fish that needed to be moved from the community tank.
My gold dust panda mollies have been actually more hardy than my platies, and have already had batches of fry in the 2 months I've had them. I find them more hardy than my platies, swordtails, or guppies. Haven't had one die yet knock on wood.
Does anyone think it would be ok to supplement cichlid salts to a molly tank as the 'added minerals' that Cory mentioned? I've been doing it for about a year now and for most part they have done quite well and bred several times. I've a tank full of those fancy yellow/black mollies and have even had a few ballon mollies bred. But I do have a death in the tank on average of about one every few months.
I have 1 Dalmatian molly and 3 glofish tetra, the molly seems fine but hides a lot until it sees me and then it swims around, should I get more molly for the molly?
I have a question! I have a 10 gallon tank that had 3 platys and 2 mollies. The tank is about 2 months old, and I recently lost a molly. The remaining fish are doing fine. Will the platys also benefit from a little aquarium salt, or would that hurt them? My remaining molly is pretty big, about 3.25 to 3.5 inches. They're cool little fish, lots of personality!
I have all the colors except the tiger mollies and IV noticed out of all the colors the Dalmatian mollies seem to breed the fastest.The gold dust grow the fastest.I also had 1 Dalmatian mollie that had about 60 babies in all colors.She had panda, Dalmatian,gold dust,and also black mollie babies Wich confused me because I separated all my black mollie from the rest.Some of the black ones have silver bellies and they look so cool.🐟🐠🐡
I can't believe I been doing it wrong this long! I have been breeding mollies for close to 40 years, I have breed Velifera in freshwater, They develop tumors after they reach sexual maturity in freshwater as well as alot of birth defects and much shorter lifespans, Latipinna don't get tumors as often but they have alot of birth defects in freshwater and males die after about 2 years in fresh but in brackish I have had males live to 6 years, Sphenops do better in brackish but it's not like Velifera or Latipinna, although they have larger litters with fewer defects in salt it's not as extreme, lifespan is shorter in fresh but I account this to them being more prone to bacterial and fungal infections and this is added stress, so in short, they just do better with salts, just regular aquarium salt reduces stress, it builds slime coat, improves gill function, reduces the uptake of nitrite, and so on... but maybe I don't know what a healthy fish is, and I guess mine aren't super duper healthy high quality mollies, Thank you for setting the record straight.
I got Molly’s at petco , they died a day later. All 7 out of 8 of them. I never had this issue when I had guppies. These fish just looked so bloated so I just thought they were females. But they were males. They all bellied up and sunk to the bottom of tank. 😢 also noticed my heater for tank only kept temp at 70 degrees.. is this too cold and that’s why they died??? Or is it cause of that salt living thing you spoke about?????
I wondered about the water because we just got 4 for my daughter. My tap water tests KH 9°, & GH around 17-18°. I am in Texas. My pH is about 8.2 which has me shocked that my Bettas & mystery snails are doing so well in it. Originally I thought my water pH was 7.6 but that's the highest my test kit would read & usually the color of the test water was darker than the 7.6 color on the card. I just got a high pH test kit in a master kit set & used it out of curiosity. I was shocked that my water tested over 8 pH in all 7 of my betta tanks. I want to lower the pH to about 7.5 but I'm not sure how to best do it considering it will go back up with each water change.
Getting some yellow mollies soon as in they are on the way. Will be my first experience with them. Gonna add them to what has been my species only black and white skirt tetra 50 gallon tank. Hoping they’ll help out with some hair algae issues this tank has been having and my daughter’s favorite color is yellow. Lol. Think they’ll be ok with the tetras? Have a new 20 gallon coming they could live in if not but curious if anyone has tried this combo.
I keep my mollies with my clownfish baby's. They live in 1.025 saltwater, PH 8.3 and do very well. I have kept mollies in saltwater for yeas and in fact their skin looks healthier and fungus is a thing of the past.
The Delusional Trump Supporter a small amount of aquarium salt would be A good idea. The only fish I think doesn't like too much salt is the Corey. But even they will tolerate be fine as long as it's a small amount.
Hi my name is Bianca I have a ballon molly and I think it’s a female and I have noticed that the fish is missing a fin is anything bad going to happen ,do i need to give it a treatment or will the fish be the same and ok.
Hi i my mother just got some yesterday now do they always need to have a little salt or Will they adapt to live with out am trying to learn about fish to keep them alive i have molly's and pleco i dont white anderstand it all 😬
I have 3 guppies in my tank its 10 gallon. I'm planning on upgrading to a 20 gallon and I was wondering if that's OK and if so, how many ? How do a keep a balance between the two ?
Why does it look like my mollies are getting bent backs? I have lost many. I have put salt in the water and the water test was fine so I am not sure why I am losing them.
That happened to my balloon molly and i heard that its because they are man made to have a back like that and overtime as they grow the body gets too big for there spine. Ive lost two balloon mollies from that
Hi Cory...I have a question...I bought a GORGEOUS silver lyretail molly at petco but he's not looking so white anymore...now he's mostly dull white with some spots of the original color white...do I just need some melafix??
I was thinking of getting a molly and a couple neon tetras- are they ok together ? I also have a guppy and was unsure of wether they are okay together ??
I used to keep mollies, i lost interest tho and after some accidents and mistakes they died and all thats left in my tank is my cories hence the labrynth organ
I'm breeding in fresh water ... I always boil new water I add to the tank... I don't need to add any salt. I'm just trying to figure out what age to start breeding the females.. The store I buy from.. They must have a local breeder. I have one momma female whose given birth to 4 sets of babies and I'd like to retire her.
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I'm glad to see you covering mollies and other so-called "beginner's fish." I don't think they get enough love from hobbyists who are anxious to try something more exotic. I didn't know many mollies are raised overseas in brackish water -- that would explain why they so often look sickly in my local stores.
Yes! I thought my Molly dilemmas were my doing. Now that you've armed me with positive info, I can resume my love affair with mollies...properly. Thank You Much Corey!
It can be tough to find good mollies to start working with. But they are fun when you finally do :)
@@AquariumCoop yo, from france !! watch your video frequently :) i wanted your help for a molly situation....tried everything. Currently keeping them in a well planted 80 l , nitrate 20/30 mg/l, ammonia free, 26 °c with hard water (around 250 ppm), those are my mollies, got them in pure water since birth.... they got a reddish vertebrae but it doesn't look like internal bleeding, they eat good, are active, feed them boiled carrots from time to time for colors and vitamins..... i'm trying catappa leaves to counter any nasty bacteria or unwanted fungus... but running out of ideas. pls help if you got any idea of wth is going on
I bought a bunch from Petco (I know....) and two and one female platy survived. Bought them two days ago and today I woke up to about ten or fifteen baby black mollies so I'm happy 😊
Nice video Cory! More enthusiasts of livebearers are needed :)
I agree everyone I see are either into just various cichlids or saltwater
These are my favorite...I will always enjoy keeping them.
Me, too. I like mollies (and swordtails).
Same plus there really easy to care for
Good video - everyone says "easy to care for" and like you say, it all depends - when we lived in Portland, OR - I kept mine in brackish and they did great - I had some pushing 5" --- where I'm at now, with our well water at 8.8 pH most of time, I think I could raise them fine in fresh water - but we don't have any limestone or sandstone, so maybe I'd need a tiny bit of salt, but crushed corral would do great
Your point on raising them in freshwater from fry is also right on point --- too many people don't actually understand these fish (including pet store workers)
Yeah, you'd think this day in age people wouldn't think mollies had to be brackish, but every day, someone comes in stating the internet told them so.
I've found them to be just what you said, rather flexible in terms of salt but in need of hard water if not brackish --- I've got a friend that has some sailfins over 7 " that he keeps in a 300 gallon live reef tank - they are spectacular (they also like to jump long & high) --- he has a 6" extension on top and keeps his tank well covered LOL
Thank you so much!!!!! I haven't heard anybody talk about the salt in the water!! I have had so many problems with mollies, but all my other fish have been fine and so have my water parameters. No wonder my mollies keep dying or always look stressed! Thanks a ton!
I caught a wild sailfin male in Houston Texas out of Brays Bayou right behind my house. I have never owned a molly before so I have been trying to get my knowledge up. I was very surprised as I found it under a culvert in a puddle completely cut off from the actual bayou in some pretty horrible conditions. With him were several pregnant females I managed to scoop up as well. He has a beautiful electric blue tail and seems to be adjusting to my tank well so far. Its been two days so I'm hoping I'm in the clear for any issues but will stay on my toes while he is in quarantine.
How are they doin'?
Are they still alive
I was immediately drawn to my new Golden Panda Mollies, at PetCo, because they were half and half yellow and black, which is a HUGE THING for me for personal reasons. But the two are my favorite color combo in life; cars, toys, knick knacks, clothes and sports gear, etc.i have mild OCD that makes my brain REALLY REALLY want to have and collect yellow things. I think the ultimate excitement for me would be having a school of neon yellow glow fish with like a blue/black light. I believe I would pull up a chair and just be able to watch them for a while.
I just have to say that I would be so lost without your channel. I spend Han hour every night just watching them and learning. A dream of mine is to have a nice big aquarium one day but I want to know EVERYTHING first!!
Thanks....I just lost 2 mollies. They just laid at the bottom of the tank. They didn't swim with their tales. I got 2 Sailfin Mollies before my others died (they were doing bad before I got the new ones). Your video helped me understand what could have gone wrong. Last water change didn't put salt in the water
I found some amazing mollies at local shop! I was never interested before, but you gotta see these gold-dust mollies, so cool.
This makes sense. I love how the ballon & dalmatian mollies look, but they died on me.
I was told to buy ph down, get a pillow softener & my water is super soft now. It never made sense to me as to why they died when the test strips would all fall under "ideal".. it was really saddening seeing them pass. Thank you for this.
I've debated about Mollies. I've had them with little success. I thought they just preferred brackish water, so I stopped trying to keep them. Thanks for the tips. You've been a goldmine of info for me lately.
+Fish Behind Glass glad to help:)
Thank you for letting me know how to properly care for my mollies! I didn't know I needed them in brackish water. I also never knew they eat algae. Thank you so much!
After having an African cichlid tank for quite a few years I decided to try my hand at livebearers. Understanding that they were not only more tolerant of hard/high ph water, but even thriving in it; it seemed a good swap. I had never had any success with mollies even surviving for very long when I was new to the hobby. But these things have gone bat**** on health and spirit. Easily surpassing the mollies in this video, these are fancy hybrids. No clue how many generations upon generations of offspring. I have to wonder if an African rift lake setup might not be the BEST for these fish. Not too brackish, not too fresh. Just right. And with a bit of good fortune even nerite snails will successfully propogate with this setup.
I think every fish subject I put in youtube search is anserered in depth on this channel.
I am new to fish keeping and don't have a tank yet but I enjoy learning possilbe dos and don'ts of fish
Thank you so much for this video! Apparently the fish store gave me 3 males and 1 female! The poor thing was run ragged - considering there were guppies in the tank as well! I just got back from switching out 2 males for 2 females! Thanks for the great advice as always!
I just purchased marble mollies from Imperial Tropicals, Lakeland Fl. (They ship) They grow there own in ponds here and the water is not brackish! I have some mollies from overseas and the Fl grown. The Fl grown are doing better!
Good to hear. Some of Florida has crazy high pH and hardness. So they don't do well for me in our soft water.
+Aquarium Co-Op I have the crazy high ph. Don't feel bad, because the hard water brings it's problems too.
+pia a yeah, always wishing for something else.
I had mollies in my first aquarium as a kid, I ‘em so much.
BTW I'm starting a sailfin Molly business. My female, platinum white sailfin Molly gave birth to 32 babies & they were born in freshwater. They're doing fine & are very healthy, active babies. The father is a platinum white sailfin Molly. They're beautiful. The sailfin mollies I have were ordered through sun pet. I've owned them too about a month in freshwater & they're doing just fine. Guess I got lucky. I just bought 4 sunset sailfin mollies & the females will give birth in about 2 more weeks. All KY sailfin mollies are 3in plus
I live in panama and have a 580 gallon pond I built. I breed mollies in it along with others. Beautiful fish
I know it's an older video but I hope you're still listening. Did you say "can cross with guppies"? What does that produce? Is it viable to add traits? Can I make a blue delta tail molly with thoughtful crossing?
Molly x guppy hybrids are usually called muppies. From my research, the fry are almost always male and sterile. Their color and body shape are halfway between their parents'. If you do cross them, try to use colors/patterns that are known to be dominant, otherwise they probably won't show in the offspring.
My favourite fish. I love my mollies. Lots of fry. It's great
This was so helpful. I couldn’t understand why some of mine died after one month with great water levels and frequent water changes. 👍🏽
I’m glad I stumbled onto your video
Big help I feel like I understand them more
Thanks buddy, after watching this I realize I'm doing incredibly well in the molly department.
I breed marbled lyretail mollies in Indiana, just love them❤
I breed and raise all mine in full marine and brackish water, Sphenops, Latipinna, Velifera so on and I move them both young and adults to fresh all the time with 0 issues, and I do this with no acclimation at all (plop and drop) and their kidneys don't shut down, these fish are euryhaline and have no issue moving from one salinity to none at all, They don't adapt to only one, Only time I've ever have issues is if I keep them long term without proper minerals (Low TDS) as that causes rickets, anaemia and vitamin D deficiency from lack of potassium, calcium, magnesium and other vital TDS in the water, however low water quality when moving them to freshwater can cause major problems, and on top of that they are hypersensitive to ammonia and nitrite and if stressed can make alot of it fast, in saltwater nitrite isn't taken up by them so they are not used to it at all.
my mollies are doing well... thanks for the information!
I've bred grey mollies (I'm not really sure what they're called) in brackish water and the parents were silver sailfin molly (M) and black fancy molly (F). At first I was expecting the fry to be either a dalmatian/marble/white/black but they all turned out to be greyish and two were white. When they matured the males had orange lines and spots on their fins. Didn't know where that came from and either the parents never had any orange on them plus my black molly was a virgin to start with.
thats the wild coloration
gbbreakdancin nope. She must not have been Virgina. Must have been kept with Sword tails or platies if it had an orange strip dude
Very informative video. Thank you for sharing!
I just bought my mollies home 10 mins ago they are gorgous
Good info. I just buy a very good looking orange sailfin male from big chain petstore in Canada. It looks good for two days, then it starts swim stranghtly. The water parameter is perfect even my German blue ram is happy. I go back to the same petstore one week later to find out all of their mollies swim strangely too because they don't adapt in fresh water. I don't understand why such big chain fishstore (Petsmart) don't know this is a problem.
Cory I need help!!!!! I'm obsessed with mollies! the thing is I want them to be happy and healthy. I want to educate myself on mollies. I want the tank to have black and silver mollies. But I don't want to be a breeder. I understand they will breed you can't stop that. I heard in your video is that they eat most of the eggs or babies. This video was very informative!!!! Thank You so much! The size of my empty😩 tank is 30 but I hope soon it will be full. 😄 Thanks again Cory! hope to hear back from you soon.
WWETheStoryTeller Productions hey. even if they eat most of their babies there's going to be a good chance of them haveing lots of survivors. for example, I started with 3 and now I have over 50 now. i have generation 3 of molly. so I recommend that you want to have 1 male and 3 females ratio.
Molly fish are fun to keep. They get very rambunctious once they mature, and they can eat every morsel fed to them and will return to eating algae in the tank. They get big and look nice.
good info never been into mollies but this info was awsome if i ever do get into them
Yeah, I love to store information like that. I don't need it now.. but later maybe I will.
I have a pure brilliant yellow molly, 24k...my favorite fish of all now. I have to find more but they don't seem to be common. The one place I know that has a few only have males and I don't want to end up with fights.
You mentioned that mollies might crossbreed with guppies... what are the details of that? I would like to keep guppies (all male) and mollies (male and female) together, but what are the conditions under which crossbreeding would not be a concern?
Can you do some how to care videos on platys and swordtails, there is not any good videos on youtube about how to care for platys or swordtails, i've also had my mollies breed and i'm raising the babies in freshwater, they are doing great.
Perhaps sometime in the future.
+Aquarium Co-Op oh ok awesome I look forward to it, i like your other videos, what brand of salt do you use for making a brackish water tank, i'm using api aquarium salt but i'd like to try another brand.
I wanna get a "premium" molly from Petco along with 2 normal females. Good thing I added some crushed seashells to my tank. They work great for raising pH.
Love my mollies. My ph is high and I have hard water do to well water. My fish are thriving in this water.
Petsmart gave me a free baby molly when I went in to look around. The mollies they got in gave birth and only one baby survived. I was so lucky to get a free freshwater bred molly.
Awesome video. Love mollies! Am breeding with 1 brackish and 1 freshwater tank. Such active fish! And so beautiful! 😍
I keep them in my salt tanks. They thrive like you will not believe. I've never seen such healthy Mollies.
What if we buy them from the store and they are in freshwater and we put them in our brackish water? We keep our brackish water at the low end of it. Someone told me they don’t due well in a high ph. As of right now I’m trying to figure out my ph problem. Idk if this could be my problem but I can be bad of not getting out snail shells or claim shells out right away I give my figure eight puffer and yes they all get along. The puffer does not bother my mollies.
A friend of mine went out and got me a few mollies as a gift and I am attempting to speed research these things.
How do you tell a male from a female?
Will different coloration cross breed? (I have a dalmatian, a panda, and a black and gold in the mix for example and am unsure if this will lead to fry)
Also they got me some swordfish thinking they were mollies, these don't cross breed or anything right?
I see us newcomers hahaha
They are such a sassy and beautiful fish
I can confirm. My first fish that got me into the hobby was the dalmation molly. I live in California and the water is so hard that they actually breed in tap water here, no salt whatsoever.. My tap runs straight from a well, so straight from the ground basically and its California so our well is 400+ feet deep to get water so there's no real threat of pesticides were sprayed somewhere close by
mollies are one of my favs I keep them now. your totally right it's hard to find good healthy mollies. no matter where I go the black molly always look sick clamped fins or skinny looking.
Yeah, look for local breeders, rare but they are out there and their mollies are like gold!
Bought two mollies today, a black and gold one. They're great!
@@mintymilkyway8069what? Why the heck are you concerned
@@dynestis2875 oof, that was my younger "princess-y sister" o-o
Thanks this helps alot. I have mollies in a brackish tank with spotted puffers and apparently I breed them now, for now I am just netting the fry and transfering them to a freshwater grow tank.
I hope to trade them in for some free stuff soon and then who knows...
2:46 "In general, keep your platys warm..." yknow..... in the molly vid LOL
I just got my Mollies today.
How would a single male black molly fare in a community tank. I once had a beautiful black sailfin with some females but my space is limited and I'd love him to be among the showcase fishes in the tank.
We just got a bunch of Molly fish but there are more males than females, will the ratio affect the breeding?
My granddaughter just found a baby black molly in my 55 gallon community tank, I had no idea my tank even had the correct parameters for breeding, I'm new at keeping tropical fish....not sure which fish was/is pregnant or if there is/will be more fry...excited but super nervous. I'm sad also that there may have been more born that didn't survive since I didn't realize I had a pregnant fish that needed to be moved from the community tank.
What about keeping only male molly fish in a tank or only female? If so how many can you have stand alone
My gold dust panda mollies have been actually more hardy than my platies, and have already had batches of fry in the 2 months I've had them. I find them more hardy than my platies, swordtails, or guppies. Haven't had one die yet knock on wood.
Does anyone think it would be ok to supplement cichlid salts to a molly tank as the 'added minerals' that Cory mentioned? I've been doing it for about a year now and for most part they have done quite well and bred several times. I've a tank full of those fancy yellow/black mollies and have even had a few ballon mollies bred. But I do have a death in the tank on average of about one every few months.
I have 1 Dalmatian molly and 3 glofish tetra, the molly seems fine but hides a lot until it sees me and then it swims around, should I get more molly for the molly?
I have a question! I have a 10 gallon tank that had 3 platys and 2 mollies. The tank is about 2 months old, and I recently lost a molly. The remaining fish are doing fine. Will the platys also benefit from a little aquarium salt, or would that hurt them? My remaining molly is pretty big, about 3.25 to 3.5 inches. They're cool little fish, lots of personality!
A little marine salt would be better.
I have all the colors except the tiger mollies and IV noticed out of all the colors the Dalmatian mollies seem to breed the fastest.The gold dust grow the fastest.I also had 1 Dalmatian mollie that had about 60 babies in all colors.She had panda, Dalmatian,gold dust,and also black mollie babies Wich confused me because I separated all my black mollie from the rest.Some of the black ones have silver bellies and they look so cool.🐟🐠🐡
I can't believe I been doing it wrong this long! I have been breeding mollies for close to 40 years, I have breed Velifera in freshwater, They develop tumors after they reach sexual maturity in freshwater as well as alot of birth defects and much shorter lifespans, Latipinna don't get tumors as often but they have alot of birth defects in freshwater and males die after about 2 years in fresh but in brackish I have had males live to 6 years, Sphenops do better in brackish but it's not like Velifera or Latipinna, although they have larger litters with fewer defects in salt it's not as extreme, lifespan is shorter in fresh but I account this to them being more prone to bacterial and fungal infections and this is added stress, so in short, they just do better with salts, just regular aquarium salt reduces stress, it builds slime coat, improves gill function, reduces the uptake of nitrite, and so on... but maybe I don't know what a healthy fish is, and I guess mine aren't super duper healthy high quality mollies, Thank you for setting the record straight.
I got Molly’s at petco , they died a day later. All 7 out of 8 of them. I never had this issue when I had guppies. These fish just looked so bloated so I just thought they were females. But they were males. They all bellied up and sunk to the bottom of tank. 😢 also noticed my heater for tank only kept temp at 70 degrees.. is this too cold and that’s why they died??? Or is it cause of that salt living thing you spoke about?????
Mollies are my fav livebearer!
Are you able to have just males, or just females? If you don't want them to breed?
I wondered about the water because we just got 4 for my daughter. My tap water tests KH 9°, & GH around 17-18°. I am in Texas. My pH is about 8.2 which has me shocked that my Bettas & mystery snails are doing so well in it. Originally I thought my water pH was 7.6 but that's the highest my test kit would read & usually the color of the test water was darker than the 7.6 color on the card. I just got a high pH test kit in a master kit set & used it out of curiosity. I was shocked that my water tested over 8 pH in all 7 of my betta tanks. I want to lower the pH to about 7.5 but I'm not sure how to best do it considering it will go back up with each water change.
I really wish your awesome questions were answered
Can my black Molly live a happy life if she is the only one of her kind on my tank? She seems lonely sometimes and follows my guppies Around.
Hey! I got 26 juvenile Golden Pandas. Want em'? lol Freshwater born, Freshwater raised and super healthy.
That is a new info for me and explains why the ones I buy do not do well while their fry will do better
How much aquarium salt should you add to your water?
What tank are you using in the video? And where did you get the rocks? they are very cool.
Oh and what about water flow level?
+Nik Wolfe the tank is the Marine land 93 gallon cube. The rock is dragonstone. We sell it on our website. www.awuariumcoop.com
Maybe I missed it where is the love for the Platy fish
Thank you for the video I didn't know this about Mollies brackish water ❤🐟👍
Can 5 mollies 5 plattys and 4 Cory’s be in a 36 gal or is it overstocked?
Getting some yellow mollies soon as in they are on the way. Will be my first experience with them. Gonna add them to what has been my species only black and white skirt tetra 50 gallon tank. Hoping they’ll help out with some hair algae issues this tank has been having and my daughter’s favorite color is yellow. Lol. Think they’ll be ok with the tetras? Have a new 20 gallon coming they could live in if not but curious if anyone has tried this combo.
Very informative video, I had no idea about the brackish water. Which breed do you think would be a higher demand variety to sell to fish stores?
Black mollies tend to be the highest in demand. But really healthy looking mollies sell because people never see them healthy.
I bought strong healthy mollies they are doing well.
I keep my mollies with my clownfish baby's. They live in 1.025 saltwater, PH 8.3 and do very well. I have kept mollies in saltwater for yeas and in fact their skin looks healthier and fungus is a thing of the past.
goodall1bay Do all freshwater fish do good with a little salt added?
I know that most livebearers should have part salt and some others, I would say that goldfish would benefit from a Small amount of salt in the water.
I was asking because I have a Betta, rainbow shark & bronze Cory in my fish tank & IDK how they'd react
But I own 7 adult sailfin mollies as the main focus, with 34 new born baby sailfin mollies
The Delusional Trump Supporter a small amount of aquarium salt would be A good idea. The only fish I think doesn't like too much salt is the Corey. But even they will tolerate be fine as long as it's a small amount.
Hi my name is Bianca I have a ballon molly and I think it’s a female and I have noticed that the fish is missing a fin is anything bad going to happen ,do i need to give it a treatment or will the fish be the same and ok.
Beautiful Molly Aquarium
Hi i my mother just got some yesterday now do they always need to have a little salt or Will they adapt to live with out am trying to learn about fish to keep them alive i have molly's and pleco i dont white anderstand it all 😬
Quite anderstand sorry the auto correct on my phone 😅
I have 3 guppies in my tank its 10 gallon. I'm planning on upgrading to a 20 gallon and I was wondering if that's OK and if so, how many ? How do a keep a balance between the two ?
What kind of salt should be used? Aquarium salt (sodium chloride) or a marine salt like instant ocean?
If you were going to use salt you'd want to use marine salt because it has the minerals. that being said equilibrium is probably just better.
Aquarium Co-Op but I heard salt kills your plants man
So im keeping mollies in a tank with tap water. Are they doomed? I need immediate answers.
Awesome video !
in all seriousness, would these go to town on hair algae?
Good info i did not know that about mollies.
Glad you learned something :)
Why does it look like my mollies are getting bent backs? I have lost many. I have put salt in the water and the water test was fine so I am not sure why I am losing them.
That happened to my balloon molly and i heard that its because they are man made to have a back like that and overtime as they grow the body gets too big for there spine. Ive lost two balloon mollies from that
I didn't know this, so should i add salt to my mollies cory ? or not ? i get them at the local weekend fish sale at my local market.
Hi Cory...I have a question...I bought a GORGEOUS silver lyretail molly at petco but he's not looking so white anymore...now he's mostly dull white with some spots of the original color white...do I just need some melafix??
I would look at water temp, pH and hardness. Mollies can be sensitive to those parameters.
So if i live in texas , the freshatwer here is fine and they wont die ? just wondering because i want to get them .
Can Molly's live with betas and are they fin nippers and are they bottom feeders
Chloe's All about I have a Betta living with my sailor mollies and they get along just fine.
I was thinking of getting a molly and a couple neon tetras- are they ok together ? I also have a guppy and was unsure of wether they are okay together ??
Well you're mixing hard water and soft water fish so it's not really optimal, but it could be done.
Aquarium Co-Op thank you - what would I need to do to do it ?
well that depends, first question is which fishes life would you like to shorten?
Spicy McRectum right I'll just get a few of the tetras then :)
I used to keep mollies, i lost interest tho and after some accidents and mistakes they died and all thats left in my tank is my cories hence the labrynth organ
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Why does the left over fish food that lays on the bottom of the tank turn to cotton/fuzz?
I'm breeding in fresh water ... I always boil new water I add to the tank... I don't need to add any salt. I'm just trying to figure out what age to start breeding the females.. The store I buy from.. They must have a local breeder. I have one momma female whose given birth to 4 sets of babies and I'd like to retire her.
Hey Cory, I got a question. I hope you can tell me if mollies can change sex?