prism127
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- Sep 21, 2013
- Location
- Chatham, Ontario
I read online a while back that you could take Black Mollies and if you had patients they could slowly be aclimated to full sat water.
I talked to a the petstore owner and was told they could not go full salt.
Now I am always up to a challange so I setup my 30 gallon tank, added sand and a few small pieces of live rock, got the salt level to aprox 1.023 and headed to the local pet store.
There I bought a trio 2 female and 1 male black mollies.
I then put the mollies with the fresh water in a standard milk pitcher and hung it on the edge of the tank.
for the next 9 hours every 10-15 minutes I would put 2 table spoons of the salt water from the tank into the milk pitcher until it was completely full.
I then dumped the 3 fish and water into the tank.
I watched them for a few hours and they seemed to be doing very well.
before I went to bed I fed them a little bit of frozen brine shrimp and was amazed that they were eating very well.
Now after about 3 weeks the black mollies are still doing very well and to my shock yesterday I looked into the tank and there was 4 little baby mollies swimming at the top of the tank.
If you know mollies they have live birth of their babies.
I then grabbed my small breeding mesh and set it up in the same tank and caught the 4 babies and placed them in it.
it has been over 24 hours now and the babies and eating and doing well.
the pics attached are of the male and one of the female mollies and the 4 babies
I hope you enjoy this and will be happy to help anyone who is looking to try this themselves
I talked to a the petstore owner and was told they could not go full salt.
Now I am always up to a challange so I setup my 30 gallon tank, added sand and a few small pieces of live rock, got the salt level to aprox 1.023 and headed to the local pet store.
There I bought a trio 2 female and 1 male black mollies.
I then put the mollies with the fresh water in a standard milk pitcher and hung it on the edge of the tank.
for the next 9 hours every 10-15 minutes I would put 2 table spoons of the salt water from the tank into the milk pitcher until it was completely full.
I then dumped the 3 fish and water into the tank.
I watched them for a few hours and they seemed to be doing very well.
before I went to bed I fed them a little bit of frozen brine shrimp and was amazed that they were eating very well.
Now after about 3 weeks the black mollies are still doing very well and to my shock yesterday I looked into the tank and there was 4 little baby mollies swimming at the top of the tank.
If you know mollies they have live birth of their babies.
I then grabbed my small breeding mesh and set it up in the same tank and caught the 4 babies and placed them in it.
it has been over 24 hours now and the babies and eating and doing well.
the pics attached are of the male and one of the female mollies and the 4 babies
I hope you enjoy this and will be happy to help anyone who is looking to try this themselves