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For a few months, I have had mollies in a brackish setup at my school. Before long, there were teensy tiny fish scattered throughout the 50 gallon tank.
I know its ugly, but I was given a tight budget. Anyways, for the summer I have taken them home with me. Recently, they had about a hundred more babies!
Around this time I had been doing more research on them, and thought about putting them in my 75g reef tank. There are quite a few youtube videos on that. They are also known to eat algae, especially hair algae. this is their primary diet in the wild.
Well, I was considering it until I ended up with more babies than I could deal with. So I decided to plop one in the reef. In seconds, it was gone!
5 more in, all gone. No remains, nothing.
Well, I had an idea. For me it is a bit of a struggle to feed my fish a balanced, healthy diet without getting food all over the place. After all, my nitrates and phosphates have been a little up and down lately.
What if I were to breed mollies, solely for the purpose of feeding my reef fish? The idea here is this: the babies go in in larger quantities, and whatever gets eaten is wholly eaten, and whatever doesn't is still alive and not turning into nutrients in the water. Might this be a viable solution? Might it be healthy?
I could easily take brackish all the way to saltwater; I already use my reef's WCs and dilute it to make it brackish for the mollies.
What are your thoughts?
Should mollies just be used for eating algae, or for being eaten? I sure hope I can improve how I feed.....
Thanks!
Harrison
I know its ugly, but I was given a tight budget. Anyways, for the summer I have taken them home with me. Recently, they had about a hundred more babies!
Around this time I had been doing more research on them, and thought about putting them in my 75g reef tank. There are quite a few youtube videos on that. They are also known to eat algae, especially hair algae. this is their primary diet in the wild.
Well, I was considering it until I ended up with more babies than I could deal with. So I decided to plop one in the reef. In seconds, it was gone!
5 more in, all gone. No remains, nothing.
Well, I had an idea. For me it is a bit of a struggle to feed my fish a balanced, healthy diet without getting food all over the place. After all, my nitrates and phosphates have been a little up and down lately.
What if I were to breed mollies, solely for the purpose of feeding my reef fish? The idea here is this: the babies go in in larger quantities, and whatever gets eaten is wholly eaten, and whatever doesn't is still alive and not turning into nutrients in the water. Might this be a viable solution? Might it be healthy?
I could easily take brackish all the way to saltwater; I already use my reef's WCs and dilute it to make it brackish for the mollies.
What are your thoughts?
Should mollies just be used for eating algae, or for being eaten? I sure hope I can improve how I feed.....
Thanks!
Harrison