Premium Assorted Mollies (Poecilia latipinna / Poecilia sphenops) – Tank-Bred
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Our Premium Assorted Mollies are lively, colorful, and perfect for any peaceful freshwater setup. Mollies are popular for their ease of care, bold personality, and wide range of patterns and colors. This assorted pack includes healthy, tank-bred individuals from a rotating mix of varieties such as black, dalmatian, gold dust, marble, and more — offering a beautiful contrast of shapes and shades in every group.
What We Love About These Fish:
• Incredible Variety: Each group features a vibrant mix of color and fin types.
• Easy to Care For: Hardy and adaptable, making them ideal for beginners and experienced hobbyists alike.
• Peaceful and Active: Great additions to planted and community tanks.
• Livebearers: Fascinating to observe as they may give birth to fry in the aquarium.
Natural Habitat:
Mollies are native to coastal streams and brackish estuaries in Central and North America. In aquariums, they do well in freshwater and can tolerate low levels of salinity.
Aquascaping:
• Plants: Enjoys heavily planted tanks with floating and midground cover (Hornwort, Vallisneria, Anubias).
• Hardscape: Use smooth stones or driftwood to create gentle structure and swimming corridors.
• Botanicals: Indian almond leaves can support coloration and overall fish health.
Diet and Feeding:
Mollies are omnivorous with a strong appetite for both plant and protein-based foods. Offer high-quality flakes, spirulina-based pellets, and occasional treats like frozen daphnia or bloodworms. Blanched veggies like zucchini or spinach are also appreciated.
Tank Mates and Compatibility:
Mollies are peaceful community fish and do well with tetras, corydoras, swordtails, platies, guppies, and rasboras. Males may sometimes show mild aggression; keeping a ratio of 2-3 females per male helps reduce this behavior.
Shrimp Safe?
Generally safe with adult shrimp. May nip at tiny or newly molted shrimp if underfed or overcrowded. Providing moss or hiding spaces helps protect shrimp fry.
Breeding:
Mollies are livebearers and breed readily in home aquariums. Females give birth to live fry approximately every 4-6 weeks. Fry can be raised in the main tank if dense plant cover or moss is available for shelter.
Recommended Tank Parameters:
• Temperature: 74° – 82° F (23° – 28° C)
• pH: 7.5 – 8.5
• KH: 10 – 25 dKH
• Minimum Tank Size: 20 gallons
Care Guidelines:
• Diet: Omnivorous; enjoys algae and supplemental vegetable matter
• Social Behavior: Peaceful and active; best kept in groups
• Origin: Tank-bred
• Average Adult Size: 3 – 4.5 inches (7.6 – 11.4 cm)
• Average Purchase Size: 1.5 – 2.5 inches (3.8 – 6.3 cm)
Add Color, Personality, and Life to Your Tank
Whether you’re new to the hobby or adding to a thriving community tank, Premium Assorted Mollies are a reliable and rewarding choice. With their bold colors and energetic personalities, they bring constant movement and charm to any aquarium.
Live Arrival Guarantee:
All Aquatic Arts brand animals come with a 100% live arrival guarantee, plus free email support if you ever have questions about care or compatibility.
For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air. If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with 2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air.
UPS 1 Day is a description of the duration of time a shipment will spend in transit once it has been shipped. This does not guarantee the package will be shipped the same or next day from which the order was placed.
Shipping Schedule for this service
Current Handling Time:
1-9 business days
Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days.
Shipping Rate
Pricing is by size of package needed to fill entire order and distance it must travel. It will be calculated at checkout.