What to Feed Molly Fish?

dsb223 · 11-08-2006, 10:02 PM

I just got a silver molly fish and a black molly. All I have is goldfish flake food stuff. Can I just use that to feed the fish? If not then what do I have to use? This might be a stupid question, but I am in college and cheap. Thanks.

emc7 · 11-08-2006, 10:56 PM

It will be okay (to feed goldfish food) in the short term. More variety would be better.

harif87 · 11-08-2006, 11:27 PM

Try some frozen foods or maybe even freeze dried blood worms. Mollies mostly like flake foods but its best to offer a balanced variety,

Forester · 11-09-2006, 05:19 AM

My molly eats flakes, freeze dried blood worms, sinking carnivore pellets, algae wafers, and various veggies. Pretty much anything that goes in the tank, he likes to eat.

robyn · 11-09-2006, 05:56 AM

i feed my molly and guppy (my only 2 fish atm) a staple diet of flake foods, but i treat them every few days with some freeze-dried tubifex worms. i hav tried a couple diff veggies, but my molly ddnt really take to the idea.

Ringo · 11-09-2006, 09:00 AM

Cucumber
Lettuce
Zuchinni
Carrots
Yellow Peppers
Peas
Broccoli
Spinach
Brine
Daphnia
Bloodworms
Mosquito Larvea
Cyclops
Small Crickets (larger species, butterfly Fish, etc.)
Earthworms (Bettas love them)
Beef Heart trimmed of fat (Treat only)
Red Meat trimmed of fat (Treat only)
Flakes
Frozen can foos
Algea pellets, wafers

robyn · 11-09-2006, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpoiledFishies

Cucumber
Small Crickets (larger species, butterfly Fish, etc.)
Earthworms (Bettas love them)
Beef Heart trimmed of fat (Treat only)
Red Meat trimmed of fat (Treat only)

for a molly?

Zoe · 11-09-2006, 12:32 PM

I bet a molly would eat small crickets from the surface of the water.

Ringo · 11-09-2006, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robyn

for a molly?

I don't know quite about a molly...
The larger ones could handle it though

**Fishfirst** · 11-09-2006, 07:03 PM

Spirulina algae flakes, and tropical flakes are probably the two foods I would feed them, they are omnivorous so they need quite a bit of plant protien in their diet.

11-08-2006, 10:02 PM	#1
dsb223 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Age: 23 Posts: 1	What to Feed Molly Fish? I just got a silver molly fish and a black molly. All I have is goldfish flake food stuff. Can I just use that to feed the fish? If not then what do I have to use? This might be a stupid question, but I am in college and cheap. Thanks.

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harif87 Minor Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Age: 21 Posts: 992	Try some frozen foods or maybe even freeze dried blood worms. Mollies mostly like flake foods but its best to offer a balanced variety, __________________ sorry for beating you senseless "The human torch was denied a bank loan"

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robyn Lost sole Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Africa Age: 19 Posts: 233	i feed my molly and guppy (my only 2 fish atm) a staple diet of flake foods, but i treat them every few days with some freeze-dried tubifex worms. i hav tried a couple diff veggies, but my molly ddnt really take to the idea. __________________ Robz 29G 1 mollie (moving to QT) 1 guppy(moving to QT) coming soon: 6 otto/cory catfish 3 dwarf gourami 8G QT 2.5G becoming a handrearing ****************atiel thingy

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Zoe <·)))< Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa Age: 22 Posts: 1,030	I bet a molly would eat small crickets from the surface of the water. __________________ 90g pltd: angelfish [black, leopard, platinum, silver zebra & gold vt] · glass catfish · harlequin rasbora · neon & rummy nosed tetra · sterpai & spotted cory · bristlenose pleco 28g pltd: scarlet badis · oto cats · bristlenose 16g pltd: flame & honey gourami · cherry barbs 8g (soon to be 18g): 15 lbs LR · 10 lbs LS · YSP · zoas · shrooms · flame & hammer corals · brittle star · scarlet & electric blue hermits · firefish

11-09-2006, 07:03 PM	#10
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Soon to be Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,506	Spirulina algae flakes, and tropical flakes are probably the two foods I would feed them, they are omnivorous so they need quite a bit of plant protien in their diet. __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

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emc7 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 39 Posts: 2,914	It will be okay (to feed goldfish food) in the short term. More variety would be better.

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Forester Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Crivitz, WI Age: 28 Posts: 70	My molly eats flakes, freeze dried blood worms, sinking carnivore pellets, algae wafers, and various veggies. Pretty much anything that goes in the tank, he likes to eat.

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Ringo I'm just a Twig Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The Sticks Age: 16 Posts: 964	Cucumber Lettuce Zuchinni Carrots Yellow Peppers Peas Broccoli Spinach Brine Daphnia Bloodworms Mosquito Larvea Cyclops Small Crickets (larger species, butterfly Fish, etc.) Earthworms (Bettas love them) Beef Heart trimmed of fat (Treat only) Red Meat trimmed of fat (Treat only) Flakes Frozen can foos Algea pellets, wafers

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