Do you have to have salt for mollies

**Angelfish11788** · 12-05-2012, 12:11 AM

buddy has got a 60 cube tank and picked up a few mollies, a dalmation and others, i know they like salt but can they live without it, or can all fish live with it. the stock so far is a rummy noses, a few swordtails, platties and a Rubberlip. I think his main fish will be some kind of dwarf cichlid pair

oh he has a bunch of snails

**Goes to 11!** · 12-05-2012, 12:14 AM

Do you have to have salt for mollies

No, Salt is not required at all for any FW fish..

**Angelfish11788** · 12-05-2012, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by 850R

No, Salt is not required at all for any FW fish..

thats what I thought,then why do so many molly caresheets say salt for adults

**Goes to 11!** · 12-05-2012, 12:41 AM

Asking the people who wrote them is the most effective & accurate way to know the rationale behind those care sheets.

Also: Googling the range of habitats/water conditions mollys exist in will help you to understand both the answer and why I phrased it the way I did.

**Lady Hobbs** · 12-05-2012, 01:53 AM

I would see no harm in it if nothing was in the tank but for the molly's but I see no reason to subject fish that don't like salt for the sake of one that may. The molly's we get are all farm raised anyway.

**fishmommie** · 12-05-2012, 02:57 AM

MY Indy LFS has mollies in his live coral tank. I asked him about it and he said those particular mollies were raised in saltwater.
All others that he sells are strictly fresh water.
Thought that was interesting.