Looking for Mollies

MuralReef

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Same petco.


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SynDen

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Fish Den always has an assortment of mollies
 

TheRealChrisBrown

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One thing I never understood very well was if a fresh water fish from Petco/Petsmart community tanks could bring in a disease to salt water? Honestly I never acclimated them, since I'd only buy 3 or 4 at a time, and my angler would eat 1 right away. I just had difficulty finding solid evidence on if diseases could go from fresh to salt like that.

Also, if I had to do it over I'd just set up a simple 10g tank and let the mollies breed (Live bearers) and have my own constant supply of food? Just a thought, maybe reducing the transmission of potential Petco diseases...although through the 2 years I had the angler (Edwardo) I never saw any signs of disease.
 

IUFan

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#7
I’ve wondered that myself. I would assume most SW diseases will not be on/in the FW mollie, so no risk there. And I also assume any kind of FW disease would not be able to survive in SW. of course these are just assumptions.

Angler sounds cool! Bet it was an entertaining and interesting fish. Lots of personality?


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TheRealChrisBrown

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Oh yeah, he was awesome! I have a couple of videos of him eating, and tons of pics. He was cool, but I got tired of going to the store for live food for him. He would never take to frozen on a stick, I tried for a long time.

 

MuralReef

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Don’t think there are concerns about freshwater and saltwater diseases passing either way. We do freshwater dips to saltwater and I always ran some salt in many of my freshwater tanks to help with disease.


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TheRealChrisBrown

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What ever became of Fast Eddie?
He passed away, in researching I discovered they have relatively short lifespans in captivity, usually about 1-3 years. I think the store said they had him for 8 months, couldn't sell him, and then he became the store mascot. I picked him up when the store went out of business, and had him for about 2.5 years.
 

IUFan

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#17
Acclimated them on a drip over 7 hours.

Started with 3 but lost one last night. Will see if the other 2 make it now


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SkyShark

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Acclimated them on a drip over 7 hours.

Started with 3 but lost one last night. Will see if the other 2 make it now


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How’d the others fare?


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IUFan

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So far so good. Looks like they have already grown a bit, but my six line is bullying them a bit at the minute, hopefully that will ease in time


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