Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Mollies, and plants (unrelated questions)
Summary: well, it turns out they are related
Message-ID: <2296@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 88 07:37:42 GMT
References: <22021@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <22021@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> hanks@yale.UUCP (Steve Hanks) writes:
>We have a very pedestrian but happy aquarium, containing
>some Platties, some Mollies, some Guppies, some Plants, 
>some Rocks.....
>
>We have just a couple of problems that we could use some 
>help with.  First of all the Mollies don't seem to be 
>growing as well as the rest of the fish.

[stuff deleted]

>Second question:  though most of our plants are thriving,
>we have one kind of reddish plant (rotella something...?)
>that has lost all its lower leaves but still seems to be
>growing OK on top.  We suspect that the fish may be munching
>on the leaves.  Any ideas on how to fix this problem?  
>(Feeding the fish more is out of the question....they eat
>like little aquatic pigs as it is.)
>
>Many thanks,
>Steve.

Mollies are primarily Herbivores. There is a good chance they are
not getting enough plant material. Also, they like some salt in the
water, have an unusually high oxygen requirement and require more
space than most fish do.

They seldon attain their normal size indoors, and chances are those
nice big ones you saw in a store were raised in a green pool, outdoors.

Apart from that they are perfect beginners fish.

Just like Discus.


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