Acclimating Molly`s to SW

I tried acclimating Mollies twice. One time the super slow way taking 10 days and one time a faster (but still fairly slow) way, taking 2 days. They croaked on me a couple days after adding them to the main DT after acclimation.

So I ended up just buying some from GARF.org. I was getting a clean up crew anyway, so I got some of their mollies that had been aquacultured by GARF and were born in saltwater.

I didn't put any of them in the main DT this time as I decided I really didn't like the look of them in with the salt water fish. Too much cognitive dissonance. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/tongue.gif But I was interested in them for my frag tank for algae control. A word of warning, they have no instinct at all and the ones I put in the little DT with the RBTA were gone the next day. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/wow.gif The ones I put in my "frag" tank are doing great, controlling algae, and pooping and having babies like crazy to feed the corals.

 

I bought a bunch of fresh water mollies...black, sunburst and silver lyertails from pet co...brought them home, put them in a small pail with the water they came with in it and set it in a 5g bucket. Put tank water to the rim of the jollies pail.. then dripped s-water in for about 3 Hrs. I had an air pump and a small heater in the bucket. Got about 3 gallon in the bucket and let them swim around for awhile. Then dumpped the fish into my sump and frag tank. I took them out after 4 months due to them being a VERY dirtY fish.

 

I have done this Many times, even back to fresh water. If you get a female that is prego works the best. Acclimate the prego and the babies servive alot better then the acclimated fish. I like the looks of the all orange sailfins the best. I'm doing all fresh water tanks now and breeding different colors of mollies...