PineSong Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 (edited) When setting up my new tank I put in a bunch of plants, filter media, wood and gravel from my established betta set ups to help season the tank. My bettas won't share space with snails or shrimp, so all the wood was covered in slimy brown algae. My new fish are all species that will eat some algae but for sure the hardest workers have been the two dalmatian mollies. After they cleaned off the first pieces of wood I had put in, I added a bigger branch that was so covered in crud it looked like zombie flesh. Less than a day later it is almost entirely clean and every time I've watched the tank, the mollies have been the ones going at it--they just don't quit. I've never kept mollies before and impulse bought them when I was having zero luck finding the platies I wanted. Now I'm thinking they deserve a raise 😉 Edited July 11, 2021 by PineSong Photo posted twice. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 That’s a win-win situation. Beautiful fish that clean your tank too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I’ve become a molly fan of late. Neighbor gave me some black mollies and they’ve been great at algae eating. Just bought some calicos can’t wait to see what they do. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted July 12, 2021 Author Share Posted July 12, 2021 BeardedBillyGoat, I did not know calico was an option in mollies. Yours are beautiful. I can see how people get multiple tank syndrome--it's so hard to see such pretty fish and not have them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudofish Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 I had always heard black mollies were an underrated algae eater but I suspected that all mollies are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 @sudofish I can confirm that they are great algae eaters. In general all the livebearers are great algae eaters. They pick pick pick all day long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 @PineSong I was looking for gold and black - front is gold back half black but they had red/black which was not as cool. There’s a great shimmer on their scales as well as a good color mix so I went for it! Thanks so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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