Molly Size....

[MeganL3985]

So I thought I'd ask since it threw me for a loop. I dont remember who but someone said that Mollies need a lot of space in a tank (20 gallons at least? I think??) I remember having a ton of mollies, platy's and neons in a 29 gallon when I was little......they were never big......so i'm just confused. lol Please someone clear this confusion up for me! hahaha :22:

[cocoa_pleco]

larger ones like sailfins should have around a 29g. small ones like balloon bolly's and black molly's can live in 10g's but a 15 and up is better

[TowBoater]

Ditto on that, sailfins get BIG, as in 6" or so.

[MeganL3985]

Ok that explains it then. The ones we had were black molly's and they were always on the smaller side. Thanks guys! :)

[nanaglen2001]

It was me who said Mollies need space. Not only Sailfins, but ALL Mollies.

Mollies like to swim, the love a decent current, they need warmer water, and the LOVE space.

To keep Mollies in a 10 gal. tank is like as if you had to live in a 4 square metres rest room.
Its clean, you have good food and water, but, K dont think you really would like it.

A nice school of Mollies NOT under 200 litres.

[MeganL3985]

Oh man.....i'm glad I didn't know that when we had a whole bunch of them in the tank as a kid. I didn't know anything about fish, I just helped my dad with the cleaning and feeding. I know for sure though thinking about all the fish and babies we had in there, plus 2 frogs at one point....that tank was probably way overstocked..... *Ugh.....* Thanks for that information Andrea!