What Fishes Are Compatible With Mollies??

Question

I want to add diff. type of fish with my mollies, but i dont want to get Guppies or Platies.. What other are good with Mollies...

Answer 1

Mollies are nice peaceful fish. Sometimes they will attempt to chase others around a bit, but do not hurt them in most instances. Mollies do best in a group with a few males and several females. Mollies are good tank mates for Swordtails, Platies, Angel Fish, Corydoras Catfish, Plecostomus, and Bigger Tetras such as Black Skirts, Red Serpaes, and Silver Tips.

Answer 2

If you go to a decent aquatic shop they are normally very helpful. I seriously suggest you do this as looking after fish is not always that easy. Any decent shop normally has little signs up advising a code for the fish which tells you what is compatible with what I think mollies are classed as community fish so there are alot of compatible ones out there. All fish can get a little narky from time to time and nip each other but I would visit a shop. I saw a little oscar I wanted and was advised that this was a bad idea as they grow huge and would quickly overun my tank. I have alot of tetras in my tank with mollies, also clown loach, corydoras, red fin shark besides guppies which you don't want. if you are in the midlands the A5 aquatics is good as is Shirley Aquatics

Answer 3

Mollies should make good community fish, they are peaceful and come in a nice assortment of colors. The problem with Mollies, when it comes to community aquariums is they have sort of specialized requirements which many other fish will have problems with.
Mollies require quite a bit of salt in their water to really thrive. As a matter of fact, my local fish store keeps a school of black mollies in a saltwater tank with damsel fish just to make the point.
While all fish benefit from a bit of salt, mollies prefer more than most soft water species like. For mollies about 2 tablespoons per 10 gallons or so minimum. You can try some of the more peaceful smaller cichlids. An orange chromide is an excellent choice as they love the salt. They are difficult to find however. Some other choices are rainbow fish. Tetras are going to have a hard time with all that salt, but there are several speices of barbs that would do well. Rosy barbs and cherry barbs would be good choices.

A couple other molly hints... they like vegetable based diets so look for algae flakes and spironella. They also prefer water on the warm side. 80 to 82 degrees is about right.

Good luck with your tank!

Answer 4

i have a large tank with a breeding pair of mollies that is with a range of fish
5 tiger barbs
5rosy babrs
4 albino babrbs
2 large white angels
a breeding pair of gouramies
1 honey gouramie
1 blue gouramie
1 3 inch red fined black shark
2 plecs
2 sunset platties ( beautiful colour)
2 panchax
2 hatchets
2 rainbow fish
1 old large platty
2 peppered catfish
they all do their own thing every now and then chase each other which all fish do! angels are ok with all the fish no problems here,
my advice is to go to local tropical fish shop and have a look round see what you like if unsure if they are compatible just as hun good luck x
HAVE TO SAY MY OLD PLATTY DIED LAST NIGHT :(

Answer 5

Neons do sound like a good idea, although when I had a couple of mollies in my tank they were aggressive as heck towards my gold fish, my guppies, and even ate one of those and a ghost shrimp. Which was just as bad for it as it was for the shrimp because the mollie choked on it and died. It was pretty sad. :( No more mollies for me.

Answer 6

A lot of species are compatible, actually. What you can (or should) get will depend more on the size of your tank and what species you personally like, than what would be available.

This website has several recommendations based on community types. Click on each of the community links to find other fish that would be compatible with the molly for that specific community type: http://www.elmersaquarium.com/10molly.htm

If there are any fish on the list with which you aren't familiar, click on the name and you will be linked to a care sheet with info for that species.

Answer 7

The Gourami such as the golden, dwarf, or the paradise gourami are very good fish that could go with mollies. Although I am now more into the saltwater field in the hobby. When I was younger I would always try to include at least one Gourami in the tank that I was setting up.

Answer 8

the best way to find out are to ask at the fish shop. i have a tank and i have neon tetras, black widow tetras, siamesse fighters, angel fish, plecs, upside down cat fish, scissortails, black tipped sharks and loads more. i would not recomend getting the blind cave fish though as they seem to bite anything that is in front of them and i think they make the other fish unsettled and on edge. tetras are good comunity fish and there are lots of different types and colours and sizes! just ask the people at the fish shop which fish would be suitable and choose from there!!

Answer 9

I love Leopard and Zebra Danios
Black skirt tetras (especially the long finned ones)
Rosy barbs
Neons

I adore Australian Rainbow Fish, but I can't keep them alive longer than a week or two so I leave them at the fish store.

Answer 10

Wow the list is almost endles we have black widow tetras but almost any tetras will do we also have weather loaches (a cold water fish but does fine in tropical tank) two huge plecotomus (they don't bother with the smaller fish) guppies. a single male siamese fighter. and just about anything else of a similar size.