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03-15-2003, 03:58 AM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Texas.
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|  Molly Breeding I just bought two Mollies, but I have a few questions I hope some of you might be able to answer. One: Are mollies and platy's different? If so, how? Two: The silver, blue-ish chromatic (male) has a beautiful crescent moon shaped tail, the black one (the female) has no distinctive features and is fully black. Will they breed? Three: For them to breed is there anything I can do to speed the process, and anything I should look for if they are going to (or have) mated?
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03-15-2003, 10:06 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Rochester, New York
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| 1. Mollies and Platies are two different species, they look different and have different genetic DNA, but doens't everything, LOL, they are different species, so that's why there different, just like monekys and chimpanzees arne't the same thing or great white sharks and tiger sharks see? 2. Yes mollies will breed they just look different 3. feed them better foods, LIVE adn FROZEN brine shrimp, raise the tempature of the aquarium to about 80-82 Degrees F. Put salt in the aquairum (aquairum salt). PH at about 7-8 That's all i know of, if you want more babies buy like 2 mroe females
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03-16-2003, 07:04 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Texas.
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| Funny, im already doing that. The tanks diet is a staple of flakes and frozen brine. The mollies nibble at leftover frog bites that he wouldnt or wont eat. So theyre well fd and I think they bred yesterday.
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03-16-2003, 11:30 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Texas.
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| Hehehehehe, I guess so! Male: La dee da, Oh look, leftover frog pellet! Female: Whats that bag? Male: Huh? Female: Oh, nevermind, there it goes. Male: Alrighty. Food! Female: Food! Male: Wait, here comes the net. What'd I do? Female: Hey what are those? Mmm...honey? *ATTACKS!*
__________________ -=Blink=- 55gal-1 Venustus, 1 Red Zebra, 1 Albino Red Zebra, 2 Livingstonii (suggestion welcome to above tank!) 20gal-3 Leopard Danio's, 4 Zebra Danios, 2 Blackfin Tetras, 1 Sarpae Tetra, 2 Lemon Tetras, 1 Albino Cory cat, 1 ghost shrimp (herbert), 1 Bubmlebee Catfish, 2 Angelfish Plants - 1 Vallisneria americana var. biwaensis, 1 Anacharis, 2 Combaba (sp?), 1 Moneywort, 1 other unnamed Recent Additions: 2 angelfish to 20 gal. 2 Livingstonii to 55 (new!) RIP- Male Molly - "Sliver" Female Molly - "Mary Black Cherry" Dalmation Molly - Unnamed Dwarf Frog |
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03-19-2003, 04:06 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: california 626 area
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| hi does aquarium salt affect the other freshwater fish in the tank? can they live normally if u add aquarium salt to a freshwater tank?
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03-19-2003, 04:27 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Nov 2002
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| It depends on how much salt and what kind of fish. I once had two teaspoons of salt per gallon of water in my tank and it didn't bother my swordtails. (Don't try it at home though because I think too much salt might kill some of my plants) |
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03-19-2003, 11:16 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: california 626 area
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| i have a 90 gallon tank with glowlight tetra, cardinal tetra, gourami, pleco, panda cory, guppy, danio, shrimp, oto, clown loach, and some plants. if i added salt, does it affect any of those? and how much salt should i add so it wont harm any fish or the environment? i wanted to add the salt because it assisted the breeding process of mollys?
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03-21-2003, 04:23 AM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: california 626 area
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| do you know any websites where i can read about adding salt and which freshwater fish cant live in a salty freshwater environment?
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