Mollies

[Europhyllia]

I am going to ambush them tonight when they are sleeping and move them to the shrimp tank. Hopefully that will be okay for them. They have now taken up residence in the seahorse feeding bowl and the seahorses are so slow and gentle I am not sure they can compete with the mollies although the mollies don't seem to bite them or anything.

I tried to catch them just now and ended up upsetting everybody. Try again tonight when regric said they're easier to catch ;)

[Regric25]

I am going to ambush them tonight when they are sleeping and move them to the shrimp tank. Hopefully that will be okay for them. They have now taken up residence in the seahorse feeding bowl and the seahorses are so slow and gentle I am not sure they can compete with the mollies although the mollies don't seem to bite them or anything.

I tried to catch them just now and ended up upsetting everybody. Try again tonight when regric said they're easier to catch ;)

Every night the 2 I had both would sleep near the surface of my tank. They were so easy to catch I could gently grab them! It worked every time! Hopefully you are as lucky as I am in catching them. Id wait an hour or 2 after lights out.

I think freshwater fish are easier in general. When I had my Mbuna tank I was aboe to do the same thing with them except they were not at the surface but i could put my hand in the tank and gently grab them and move them around funny stuff

[allan]

Hey, so if I got a few mollies would they eat the algae on my overflows?

[Europhyllia]

Hey I know some mollies you could try ;)

They do nibble on algae. They nibbled all day in the seahorse tank. But when I put one in the reef tank it seemed to struggle a bit around the 4 MP40s.
Not sure if they can do the all day grazing as easy in a reef tank with the strong water movement

[allan]

I was thinking of my frag tank, not much of a current in there. But I have algae growing all around the upper lip which I harvest every few weeks or so.

I'd love to try them.

[Europhyllia]

sounds like this could work out perfect then. any other fish in there?

[kkiel02]

Just bought my 4 lyretail dalmations today! They are drip acclimating now. They brought up a story of a guy who bought some of them to breed for cuttlefish to eat. I wonder who that was? lol

[Europhyllia]

lol what are you up to Kevin?

[Reefer4ever]

Okay. Only 2 left. Male gold dust and what looks to be a pregnant female black molly! The others died :(

[Europhyllia]

Hm. I wonder why? My 4 survivors are doing really well and getting to be actually a bit of a nuissance for the slow seahorses
(so I am glad they are moving to Allan's frag tank shortly)