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Molly (Poecilia latipinna)
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molly

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Description: Compatibility: Peaceful Community Fish
Maximum Size: 3-4 inches
Minimum Tank Size: 10G
Temperature: 70-80F
Diet: They will accept flake food, but you also need to supplement their diet with veggies. They enjoy algae, spirulina algae wafers or some veggies such as cucumber or lettuce.
Level of care: Easy
General Notes: They are excellent for community tanks or just by themselves. They feel comfy with 4 or more of their own kind. Mollies prefer to have some salt in their water. Very peaceful, easy to breed and they will swim in all levels of your tank. If you have a male and a female in the same tank, they have probably already bred. Mollies are livebearers, which mean that their fry (babies) are live when they are born. Most are well-mannered, but some can be more agressive than others. It is best to keep one male per 2-3 females in a tank to cut down on the male pestering only one female.

There are several different colors and types of mollies. The Balloon Molly behaves just like the normal molly, but the stomach is puffed up like a balloon. Dalmation mollies are black and white spotted. Silver Lyretail Mollies are a bright white almost silver color and have longer fins than most other mollies.


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Jadenblack
Medium Fish


Registered: March 2005
Location: Vacaville, CA
Posts: 366
Review Date: Wed May 11, 2005 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: $0.99 | Rating: 7 

 
Pros: Cheap, Comes in lots of colors, easy breed.
Cons: Dirty.

Good cheap fish, fun for beginners since they are easy to breed. Females can get nippy when pregnant; males can get territorial during mating. However there seems to just be a lot of fin flashing and chasing not any real aggression toward other fish in the tank just some picking on each other.
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Chazwick
Large Fish


Registered: August 2005
Location: I currently lodge in a house with my Jack Russell pup, Boosh.
Posts: 935
Review Date: Thu October 27, 2005 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: $2.25 | Rating: 10 

 
Pros: Beautiful, Hyper, Fun
Cons: May annoy other fish.

Mollies are great fish to have! They're hardy... and fun to watch, such little hyper guys! Plus, they love nothing better than to "clean" leftover flakes and such. They're constantly on the move and it's hard to get bored with watching them!
Just be careful with their tank mates, they may annoy some of the more hot-tempered fish like siamese fighting fish, etc..
Better in groups, or at least in pairs.
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thenewguy
Teenie Weenie Fish


Registered: November 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 31
Review Date: Thu November 17, 2005 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: Not Indicated | Rating: 10 

 
Pros: good recomedations
Cons: none

Great profile and thanks for the information
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jordz.999
Teenie Weenie Fish


Registered: December 2005
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 2
Review Date: Sat December 3, 2005 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: Not Indicated | Rating: 0 

 
Pros: Array
Cons: Array

Sweet profile but a little more on breeding would be good as that is what im trying to get into cheers.
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Csilover
Little Fish


Registered: January 2006
Location: Sand Springs, OK
Posts: 273
Review Date: Sun February 12, 2006 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: $1.66 | Rating: 9 

 
Pros: Hardy, good beginer fish
Cons: Females become a bit "meaner" during pregnancy

Very nice fish to have, mine are extremely hardy, and are a pretty good community fish. I only have them with an ADF, but I know they could go with much more! Very good beginer fish.
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Smalltank3
Large Fish


Registered: December 2005
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 958
Review Date: Sun March 5, 2006 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: $1.99 | Rating: 10 

 
Pros: Very Colorful and Peaceful
Cons: none!

I just got a pair of sailfin mollies and they swim around peacefully. I have a male and a female and the male doesn't pester the female. Very good beginners fish.
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fishcraziee
Medium Fish

Registered: October 2004
Location: Monterey Park CA
Posts: 319
Review Date: Sun March 19, 2006 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: $2.99 | Rating: 10 

 
Pros: really great fish, cleans algae
Cons: can get quite big, prefers brackish

When I had mine, they bred a lot and once again I had too many babies. They clean algae off of surfaces and are pretty peaceful. They may pick on smaller fish. They really prefer brackish water but can live in fresh to pure marine tanks.
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kda2011
Little Fish


Registered: June 2006
Location: Ohio, USA
Posts: 144
Review Date: Wed June 7, 2006 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: $2.99 | Rating: 10 

 
Pros: Pretty Fish, Great to Watch, Cheap
Cons: None

Great fish, I had a dalmation myself. I love these fish. They tend to swim on the top and bottom. Not much of a middle swimmer. They do well with other fish. I had not problems, no nipping, no ramming. I prefer these fish over guppies. A slow calm fish. Mine did good with small and big fish.
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DclownD
Medium Fish


Registered: July 2006
Posts: 438
Review Date: Fri July 21, 2006 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: Not Indicated | Rating: 10 

 
Pros: very good fish and lyretails are pretty
Cons: POOP ALOT very dirty

i have 3 lyretails and they are my fav fish so far very active swim at all lvls.. they act like they own the tank... and they get kinda big
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Suralle
Teenie Weenie Fish

Registered: August 2006
Posts: 4
Review Date: Fri September 1, 2006 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: Not Indicated | Rating: 9 

 
Pros: Black Velvet... if you please...
Cons: None

Some of the most interesting pets in my aquarium. Even though my blue paradise male is almost 2 times as large as the alpha female, he knows his place, and she doesn't have to do anything but waggle her tail to remind him.

My wife calls them her little dollar signs. She does love a return on her investements.
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Fuzz16
Super Fish


Registered: October 2006
Location: kansas city, ks
Posts: 1565
Review Date: Fri October 20, 2006 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: Not Indicated | Rating: 9 

 
Pros: fast breeders, not picky eaters
Cons: need more than a few, they like company

i like the mollies better than the guppies, simply because they seem more alive than the guppies. with them you hardly need a cleaner fish, but i have noticed that they eat a lot of the food before it can get to my fry or smaller shyer guppies.
my male guppies also tend to fight over everything, to where my beautiful lyretail has gotten his fins torn up a bit
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drake53
Medium Fish


Registered: March 2007
Location: southern Texas
Posts: 394
Review Date: Fri November 9, 2007 Would you recommend the profile? Yes | Price you paid?: $3.50 | Rating: 9 

 
Pros: colorful
Cons: none

i have a male sailfin right now. i had a male betta in my tank with a female previosly (she is r.i.p).
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