MOLLY FISH CARE - Best Beginner Livebearer? 

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So happy to support you and your great content! And extra kudos for saying my name right, made me shriek loud enough to disturb the neighbors so thank you for the surprise!

I had 1 male and 2 females and 1 old platy. I named the male molly Jack and the 2 females Janet and Chrissy . As for the platy , I called him Mr. Furley.

I started with two. Fast forward two months, now I have 62.

Your mollies are so adorable 🥰 I'm glad they're going well. I'm researching mollies because I'd love to get a few. Thanks 😊

I’m impressed by how you saved that female that was near doomed

I absolutely adore balloon mollies. I have several in different colours, and in different community tanks. Names are Pepsi, Pebbles, Popcorn, Truffles, Cookies and Cream. They have so much personality. Of all my fish (bettas, platies, guppies, cories, pleco, raspboras, pencil fish, neons) I think they have the biggest personality (besides the bettas of course). They are also literally ALWAYS eating or looking to eat. They're basically little water puppies lol. Thanks for the information - luckily mine haven't been sick, but it is good to know what to do in case.

Thank you soo much Irene. I love how you dedicate almost all of your time to helping other people you don't even know. I love you and I will always support you.

Wow you’re good! Thanks for all the tips. I love these little fishes.

Wow thanks so much for sharing this. 4 months ago I had gotten a black molly and 2 dalmatian mollies. They did great for the first two weeks, but then one by one they died. My water tests were good, and I did water changes so I couldn't figure out why. But now thanks to watching this I understand! I haven't gotten any since, and miss them because I love their personalities! They always greeted and were such characters. Now that I know what to do, I might get more in the future.

Thanks for the great video will be trying mollies once out of quarantine. I used to have mollies and what to have them again. After watching this video and some of Cory’s vids I will be trying them again.

Saved my fish! Thank you for your informative video.

I several months ago a tank with mollies in the and there's always babies in there. The tank is brackish and I love it. I've never had success with mollies before so am really glad I am now. They're one of my favorite fish.

Great beginners guide 👏

This video has helped me out a lot thank you

Thanks for the information!

Thank you for another great video. I enjoy your style

Gotta love them, so plump and cute

That’s crazy how well Dotty recovered

Awesome video, thanks for sharing

This is a very cute video I must say..🤗

Thank you for sharing this video 👍⭐

Thanks for the information! I’d never heard about the use of sea water to drop expense at hatcheries. Parameters and quarantine seem all the more important. Keep educating and congratulations on the Coop. Blog, Jim

So amazing information..u r so nice..keep it up

I have 6 lyretail mollies: 3 black, 3 gold-colored. I am always surprised that we have new fry in our 15-gallon tank. Just this month, we have new four ones! Amazing!

I really enjoyed this video, and I also love that you also use the sponge Bob pineapple house too! 😂👏👏💙🌟🌈

Thank you.

I 💕 balloon mollys. My fave

A nice breeding project for you might be endlers. Mine won't eat their babies so you dont have to separate the babies and adults. Also endlers are very colorful so you could mix different color variations together and get surprise colors.

I love it!

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Love your videos!! This is my balloon molly in my profile!

Platies are easier to take care of than mollies so I would start with platies. Where I live (Utah) the water is quite hard but may need a dash of added aquarium salt especially in the spring and especially for mollies. I real good fry plant is hornwart but I usually separated my fry.

Very beautiful

wow I actually can't believe how lucky I am XD I am a beginner fish keeper with 7 tropical fish and my 2 mollies haven't had any problems for a few months now thankfully.

I’ve always used the teaspoon method of salt; 1 tsp/g for any fish, 1.25 excluding cories, 1.5 excluding catfish and some loaches, most cichlids and livebearers can go to 1.75. I just find it easier to multiply once and not have to divide. Call me old fashioned... but we both agree - SALT WORKS!

Hello, I had the same thing in my molly fish tail, do I put aquarium salt on the aquarium, will it do anything to the other molly fish.

nice job

Whoever named this type of Molly lost a perfect opportunity to call it cookies and cream

great video this is the earliest I have ever been for your videos. I love your videos! I am starting my own fish channel any tips?

Hi Irene, So I have recently gotten a betta fish in a 5 gallon tank, and I have a sort of film on the water. I was wondering, could a sponge filter help that?

I had the same exact thing in my tank, I started with 5 various Molly's, they did great for a long time, had babies, kept 3 of them, then out of nowhere I got this fungus. I tried to medicate but all of my fish died except 2 of the original babies. Luckily the 2 survivors just had babies a couple weeks ago, so I know have about 15 new babies lol

Hey GTF, I was wondering if I could get your opinion on German blue rams as you did own one. I have a 40 gallon that’s heavily decorated and planted with guppies 1 angel fish 3 honey gourami and lots of Cory cats. I’d love to try a ram cichlid but my main concern are my cories getting in its way causing stress for both fish. My cories are the only fish that are near the bottom all the time and the most outgoing.

Wait.. we're down to two tanks now?😱 No more axolotls?😥 Great info you shared here, especially about the three salt levels & the measures you took to remove as much salt as possible. Just emphasizes the importance of quarantining the fish; can you imagine if this had happened in a community tank?

Yup these fish really do much better in a more saline environment i have catfish in my tank so i cant add too much salt but i generally put a tablespoon in my 10 gallon everyonce in a while same thing with platys

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do you have any aquarium heater recommendations? most i see online have negative reviews where they explode or overheat

Hello I was wondering if you would be able to do a video like this one but for shell dwellers l?

I learned about the brackish water issues after a molly brought home a disease that my fresh water fish weren't immune to. That was horrible. I tried Mollies again in their own 10 gallon tank. They died there too. I finally found a care guide, probably Cory's, that mentioned brackish water. I am going to try them again this time in a brackish tank.

How do you rehome them? I got a single female because she was all that was left at the shop. I didn't even know she was pregnant, she didn't look pregnant. Suddenly a few weeks ago I had 3 extra fish coming up at feeding time...baby mollies! They were already a few weeks old before I realized they existed and I stare into my tanks all the time! I have no idea how they survived.

Hahaha i read your article, very helpful, say irene, should you feed your fish daily or fast them at least for a day?

Sailfin Mollies are the first fish I ever sold (that's how I bought my 2nd tank. I think I was 12). I hadn't had any luck with them since.

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I have 1 Dalmatian molly and 3 glofish tetra, the molly seems fine but hides a lot until it sees me and then it swims around, should I get more molly for the molly?

Yeah I kept mollies a while ago and I had to treat bacterial infections 3 times and ich twice. However I did eventually get rid of the 6 out of 8 I had left.

My first fish as a kid were black mollies. Didn’t have much luck with them but I still think they’re so beautiful.

Should they be kept in a species only tank if you want them to breed or can they also be in a community tank?

I thought i was doing something wrong. Like my guppies and RCS are doing great and breed but my Molly's kept doing those weird wiggles and die and i was thinking it was the hardness but even raising KH and GH did nothing to help them. Good to know salt helps. Might fill a 5 gallon bucket for them to breed in and get the fry in my freshwater tank and donate the parents to someone with a saltwater aquarium.

Mollies are one of those fish that absolutely need hard water and a high ph to thrive. A ph of at least 7.5 is ideal and a gh of at least 180ppm. My tap water is also very soft and low in ph. One thing I've done that's helped a lot is put bags of crushed coral in the filters and also put some in the substrate.

Just subbed.

i love her

What age would you recommend to sell swordtail fry? Thanks, great vid too 🙂👏

Hi there!,what kind of molly is the white one?

How much equilibrium do you recommend for a 20 gallon ? (Average )

Cute fish ÷³

Why the fry mollies don't get bigger like yours, i have kept them for about 3 months in a 30 gallon tank but still not much sign of growth.

Is there a breed or subspecies of molly that performs better than others, or are they all pretty much the same?

I am reaching out to you as you seem to be the one out of the three “aquarium” channels I follow that replies. I have a 50 gallon which has in it 9 platy, 2 panda corydoras, 2 hillstream loaches (which I literally love love love) and a 6 yr old fancy goldfish my son had to have years ago named Billybob. They all get along great. My concern is if the loaches are getting enough to eat! I feed algae wafers, billybob eats them, I feed sinking shrimp pellets -billybob eats them, I feed floating pellets goldfish and beta size - billybob eats them, I feed sinking carnivore pellets and Spirulina (oh the smell) you guessed it billybob eats them in true goldfish fashion! I don’t worry about the platies or pandas I see them eat.. the loaches which honest to goodness I love I worry about. I’ve fed in total darkness and that PIG EATS IT... help please I don’t want them to starve or be malnourished! They do suck on the glass but I don’t think it’s enough and my algae levels are really low I’m editing this because I’ve also tried to feed billybob on one side of the tank to distract her but nope built in sonar she finds everything!

Me to

I had 3 mollies 2 ballon and 1 normal they lived with a catfish 2 snails and 3 neos I have a filter a hiding plant and a couple ortimants. They lived for a few days then died how do I keep them alive?

Is it okay to put mollies in a bowl? Let say 2 female and 1male?

My fear of keeping guppies and mollies they multiply fast. If you are not planning to sell fishes what to do with extra guppies and mollies. In my experience in the beginning it was hard to breed. Later I keep finding shortage of tanks and plastic containers to keep all the fishes. Any suggestions.

Are mollies like deep or shallow water?

hi um i have just got some fish today and one of them was a black female molly i was just wondering will she die without having another molly around her because if so i will get another on asap get back to me asap if you can thank you

Do you have a blmble bee goby fish ?they are very nice and cute.

How do I find out how many gallons my tank is?

Do you really think that betta fish really need black water(your betta tank has no tannin)? Please reply 🙂☘️🍀

I recently had to my three Dalmation Mollys back to the store!! Thought I had three females. Boy, was I wrong! Two females and one male who was ON THEM ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT!! I couldn't take it anymore.

Can a molly is ok to put on a 1 gallon tank?

i love those chonky fishes

Good luck 🐬🐬🐬

Thank you now I know how to treat them now soon I'll be getting mollies I'm going to name Elvis and Priscilla

Can you breed balloon with other type molly?

I dont know what it is but I just find these fishies so cuute

my mollie had 15 small fry, an she’s still vary fat? will she have more

This whole time I thought I did something wrong. I bought Molly’s from petco and a day later they all but one died. My water is soft, I used spring water from grocery store. Fish people never mentioned to put any salt in water. Water temp was at 70 degrees I thought maybe that was why they died

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I bought a molly few days ago, she's gave birth tonight. I only saw 5 baby fishes and 2 got eaten by the tank makes. Is that all? Or i have to watch her bc she's giving birth to more mollies. Her belly is not big anymore so idk if there will be more babies.

60 days gestation period is generally false if ur tank is unheated yes it will take a long while but if it is around 80 degrees or more it only takes about 30-40 days

My Local fish store Sells freshwater and locally bred saltwater mollies

Hai guys, I brought 5 Molly and they are female. Is that ok to put 5 female in one tank? Thank you

Do a breeding project on albino red guppy it should be fun and difficult at the same time

I'm feeling like a real idiot right now. I bought a balloon molly from Petco. Black and white just like yours. Right now I used bottled water and a few drops of conditioner just incase. Its literally all I have. And i'm literally trying to save its life right now. :( my balloon molly has been swimming very slow and funny and on its head just like yours was. I'm completely unprepared. I have no medications. I don't know what to do. I'm super bummed. I really loved this fish. I bought too many fish and put them in an aquarium that I just set up. I had my betta in there. He was non aggressive. But 2 that came from the shop were more aggressive then the others. One fish after the other died. I only have 5 left out of 11.... and yes. My original 3 year old betta died too! ;(... I used conditioner for the county water I used. Half teaspoon for 5 gallons. I have a question.... does conditioner expire? Because the one I used was old. But seems fine to use.??? I only have 2 bottom feeders. White. One red tail shark scissor fin type fish. He's black with a red tail. 2 whiskers.territorial. Very aggressive. And a bright yellow.... bigger looking. I think molly. But i'm not sure. Aggressive as well and territorial. And then my favorite. Balloon molly. ..I don't think its going to make it through the night. This has been a hard painful lesson. I'd really love to know why the water is cloudy. I did some research and was told to leave it alone and it will clear up on its own. All I'm equipped with is water conditioner.... that's it. After watching this video. I feel extremely unprepared. And it seems like fish owning is going to cost WAY more money then I expected. I just wanted to get a small aquarium for my daughter. Set up the tank with county water using the condition drops. Left it for a few days. Then brought home the fish. Got them used to the temperature. And put them in. They all seemed fine at first. Then one by one dropped like flies. Starting with my daughters favorite guppy. I swear. If I ever do this again. I'm going to be super prepared. And I'm going to make sure the water is ready. And I'm only getting 2 fish at a time! If you have any advice or know how I could possibly save my balloon Molly's life. Please reach out to me on instant messaging. Silver Hensley is my name. It's a picture of my daughter with a red bow in her hair.

You should breed bettas

The fact that balloon Molly’s can actually have a relationship and last compared to my relationship life says alot

How to breed kuhli loach

So the Molly fish need salt water

ive got the same fish but there not called ballon mollys there called dalmaitan molly

I have 6 pearl danios and 1 balloon molly

Tnx for helping me with this video and.... My baloon Molly just died cause fungus and i watching you and i see how heal the fish with salt ty so much and my mollies Don't GIVE birth i buy so many mollies but i die and just left 10 more and i hope they gonna gift birth to me 😢😊ty so much for the video