Black Molly Fish Care (Need to Know)

Molly fish care starts with getting an adequate aquarium size. You will also need a heater because they need tropical water temperatures. Another super important variable is your Molly fish male to female ratio. If keeping too many males in the same tank you were going to suffer from probable aggression. Molly fish are constantly trying to breed and the males can get extremely aggressive and assertive and sometimes even kill the females.

I consider this a fairly easy fish to take care of but you have to be careful of that aggression scenario involving the female to male ratio. You’re going to want to give these fish adequate amount of space to move. This means keeping them in a 20 gallon aquarium or larger. Some of the Aquarium layouts are better suited for these fish because they are longer and give the fish more swimming length side to side.

More Fish Talk

I need some advice! Im moving to a new house and i will be moving a 55 and 29 gallon tank.. what’s the best way to transport the fish? How much of the original tank water should i keep? When I moved my 55 recently 45 mins away I put the fish in a tote with water from the tank then left about 4inches in the tank. By the time I got them back in the tank it was 6 hours later none died.

I just did the 3 treatment Para cleanse, ich x, and maracyn at the same time like what aquarium co-op cory said to do, and now my mollies are acting strange and just laying down on leaves and gravel. I checked on them all and they are all alive just acting doped out. Is this normal?

Both are bad ideas. Water that hot is completely unnecessary and could be to blame for weakening a seal. I’m not sure the purpose of such extremely hot water. If you need to sanitize it, you can wipe it out with vinegar and then rinse well in a more normal temperature water.

Need set up ideas for 125 gallons! Preferably without live plants as my electric blue shitheads (Acara’s. Or Frick and frack as I call them) won’t allow me to have live plants. also need some stocking ideas for the tank, so far I got 2 blue acaras, 3 angel fish (apparently I’m not allowed anymore than that), 1 bush fish, 2 Raphael catfish, 1 skunk loach and 1 porthole catfish. Was thinking a freshwater eel of some kind and a bichir.

Plant-wise, how do your little darlings feel about epiphytes and floating plants ? Most plant rippers won’t bother anything NOT rooted in substrate. Far as stocking 125g of water…. or whatever the actual amount is after substrate/decor/equipment… just follow whatever theme you want, busy/colorful or select species/laid back. With the cichlids involved, I’d be prone to decent sized schools of Tetras, about 3-4 species. Hatchets up top, some midsize mid-tank like Coral Pencilfish (or Emperors) , something like Pristella, then maybe some Cory schools low.

I had the the same problem with those lil plant destroyers so I rehomed mine. But when I had them I used these plants on the end and the ones next to them. They are bamboo plants and P.S they are fake.

Sounds to me like you need some dither fish. Like a school of black skirt tetras or something.
A species that stays around the 2 inch mark but fast enough not to be bushfish food.

Question how well does alpi quick start work for a new tank. It didn’t do as well in tests. Top 3 bacterial supplements were:
1: Live fish
2: Tetra safestart
3: Seachem stability

These three actually contained the correct nitrifying bacteria with minimal die off.

Hi everyone. Does anyone else have a problem with the Aquaclear HOB bypassing the media and overflowing on top? The water doesn’t go through the bottom, it just streams over the top. There’s no actual filtration anymore and the tank is cloudy.

Black Molly fish care consists of a set of parameters to setup your aquarium properly.

But unfortunately no. Took it down, cleaned the entire thing, even checked the impeller in the motor. I’m wondering if it’s the media I’m using. It’s a thinner sponge than what came with the filter, along with filter floss and the biomedia bag. Do you think a thinner sponge could cause it.

Yeah but if the sponge you are using is not porous enough it clogs fast and as a safety precaution is designed to bypass media and overflow back into tank. Filter media may be too tightly packed to allow water flow? I recently switched the order of my medias on my AquaClear and it is working better than ever.

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