can mollies, platies or guppies live in full salt-water?. e.g. with a clownfish?

Answer 1

No. Mollies are brackish. Guppies are freshwater. Most likely the clownfish would eat the guppies, maybe the mollies.

Answer 2

Your guppies, platies and mollies can all go together quite happily in a 30 gallon tank. The only thing is that guppies and mollie can and will try to crossbreed. The fry produced by such a crossbreeding are seldom viable, but that doesn't stop the fish from doing it. Also, guppy males and molly males will try to chase females of all other species. So make sure that the females of the combined species outnumber the males of the combined species in a 2 to 1 ratio. That is, add up ALL the female fish in the tank and make sure you have 2 to 1 for ALL the male fish in the tank. That way none of the female fish will get harassed too much and made stressed and ill. If you do have females, I'd leave your tank as is - no more fish. You'll be getting plenty of fry soon to fill up your tank. If you have all males of all species, then you can get 5 or 6 more fish. Some cories might be nice. Or a little bristle nose pleco or oto to clean up your algae and the food that makes it to the bottom of your tank. :) 2 discus in a 30 gallon tank should do just great. Just make sure you cycle the tank first and keep their water conditions very good. Discus are quite sensitive.

Answer 3

I haven't tried a platy yet, but I've got two sailfin mollies (bright orange) and a trio of turquoise guppies that I've acclimated to saltwater in my tanks right now.

As MM recommends, it's best to gradually, over several days. I use an Eclipse or Explorer tank (2.5-3 gallons) and start them at 1 tablespoon of salt per 5 gallons of water and add a little more (about a teaspoon) to some tank water 1-3 times a day (don't add the salt directly to the tank). I know a fish store where the manager does mollies in one day and guppies in four using a drip system to introduce saltwater to the tank. I recommend a longer acclimation period, as it seems to make the fish hardier in the new environment.

Answer 4

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can mollies, platies or guppies live in full salt-water?. e.g. with a clownfish?

Answer 5

Yes they can. All of those fish can tolerate anything from pure freshwater to brackish to full marine. Guppies and Mollies are the easiest to acclimate to saltwater and can move over quicker, but platys can to given plenty of time. You must change them over slowly though, over the course of several days. Slowly adding a little more salt every few days until it's fully marine.

This site claims it can be done in as little as 6-8 hours. Maybe so, I've never tried it that fast.

http://fins.actwin.com/mirror/sbegin-fish.html

Stop by an independent pet shop that sells saltwater fish and inverts odds are good you'll see a few mollies in at least one of the tanks.

MM

Answer 6

Yes they can. You have to slowly acclimate them to the salt water though.

My sister kept feeder guppies in with her seahorses. The guppies would spawn and the seahorses ate the fry.

Answer 7

I read that mollies are truely brackish water fish, a mix of half fw half sw, but full sw conditions I dont think it can work. You can try a flowerhorn cichlid, I seen pix of it in full SW and thriving as well. Look it up, if you're really interested i'll pull up the forum with pix for you. -Jeff

Btw, I have also seen SW bumblee groupers in FULL fw, thriving and growing pretty damn big as well. If you want info on that as well, let me know.

Answer 8

No, although guppies and the other fish are hardy little guys they are freshwater fish and would die after a few days of being in saltwater.

Answer 9

I have only seen freshwater guppies you can't mix fresh and salt water. The guppies will die.

Answer 10

Don’t clown fish need an anemone? If so, wouldn’t that sting and consume the mollies?