Salt Acclimating Sailfin Mollies

[Lorna]

Okay I saw the LFS had a few sailfin mollies in his saltwater tank that he had acclimated ??? has anyone ever tried this and if so what were the results?

 

[Joe Fish]

I have read about it. You have to slowly raise the salinity of the tank. I'm not sure how high they can go though. Possibly changing 1/6th of the water every day or so with water that is set to salinity you want to get to.

 

[FishGeek]

Ive tried it. You have to be very slow with it. I have tried it 2 and both times lost the fish. They seem to be more sensitve than Puffers. They do very well (Iv heard) after they are acclimated but its getting them acclimated thats tricky (IMO atleast).

 

[Lorna]

Well the lfs had about 10 or so swimming around and they looked really good almost like fairy wrasses.....as they were the gold/red ones.....I wonder how they made out....

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

ive heard livebearers can do that. my LFS had a guppy in a SW tank forabout a month until an eel ate it.

 

[Mushroomman]

Yeah we've done it. Actually just dripped them for 4 hours and put them in, they were totally fine.

 

[TheFool]

Most wild mollies (ther are a few species) are good in everything, and actually are designed more for salt than freshwater (design of gill rakers, other adaptions). As most mollies in ythe shops are hybrids they can usually tolerate everything excep soft freshwater, given a few days to slowly acclimate. They are killer algae eaters.

 

[Agreeive?fish]

I have various breeds of mollies in my saltwater tanks...i just put them in new fresh water (about 1/2 gallon) in a 5 gallon bucket, place an airline tubbing in the salt water tank and fill the bucket with the saltwater(natural gravity flow) and then just dump them into the tank. i have not lost one other than due to old age.