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My most favorite fish was a white molly. He had only 1 eye. I didnt notice till I got him home. My sister said he looked like Flatbush. My nephew was crazy about that movie at the time. So that's what we named him. Ole Flatbush lived a long time and was the boss of the tank. I was in my teens when I had him. I'm 35 now. I'll never forget him. 🐟💙

Even after 23 years in the hobby, I have one of my tanks dedicated to Platies because I like them so much. Plus, they are so easy to take care of it is nice to be able to relax and watch them going about. I’ve had Mollies, too and like them as well. Your video was on point.

I have a 20 gallon long, planted, with platys and mollies I love them! So active and fun to watch. I haven’t noticed any aggression or issues like that.

We have two female gold dust mollies and they are both over 6 inches long. We rescued them from a friend who had them in with oscars, they now reside in a 40 breeder and are doing just fine.

I love platies. But you need a plan to deal with the fry, because healthy , well-fed platies will breed like little love machines. (He writes, looking at two tanks and lots of platies...)

Platys are absolutely my favorite 😍 I had a baby boom in my main 55 and set up another 55 that I’m moving all of the girls to as they mature. They’re such amazing little fish with huge personalities

Thank you guys so much for this information! I set up a "platy" tank, and ended up with 2 of them being mollys... LOL. I am still a bit of a newbie.

I had a lot of Molly babies. I donated to my LFS. I kept 2 black mollies and 2 of the babies. The black mollies are huge! They are in a 36 gallon. The 2 smaller ones live with my Betta in another tank. I call them my Bettas little buddies. They get along really good

I have a 55 dedicated to Platies and a 55 brackish with Mollies and Figure 8 puffers. Both tanks are awesome but the interaction between the 4 puffers and the Mollies is really fascinating. The way they swim together and play in the bubbles from the sponge filters is great and the number of Molly babbies that survive with that stocking is surprising as well. Amazing fish!!! Thanks for the video!

Yes yes! I waited for this!!! Thank you so much!!!

Wow had no idea thank you for sharing.

When I was keeping mollies, I had read somewhere that they like cheerios - the plain variety. They seemed to enjoy nibbling on them as well as blanched squash.

I enjoy the vs series. Great video with lots of good info. Happy Monday!

Love them both. I love the black and Dalmatian Mollies

Good info guys. I've always liked the dwarf-teapot platys. 👍❤👍

great video guys..thank you

Perfect timing on the video. I got some tank space and I want to do a livebearer tank. Really want to try to find some coral platys. Very cool genetic mutation

Love both. Black mollies breeding like crazy in my tank they sometimes come out silver n black or just str8 black.

Good subject. When I kept fish, I was always a Platy fan. Never had much luck with Mollies.

Happy Monday, nice will have to get some platy’s they’re so active.

I do tend to like active fish. They both fish I will have to try. Thanks for the info. Happy Monday 😊

I used. Pair of black mollies to cycle a 29 salt water it worked excellent and they were great fish in a salt water tank.

Happy Monday my favorite power couple 😁♥️ Hey thanks for this!! My first Time Around The hobby I tried Molly's but never had very much success! We have Galaxy platies now they are wonderful fish!!! Thanks for sharing this I've always wondered all the differences between Molly's and Patty's!! I hope you all are having a wonderful and blessed day 🌿🐟🐟🌿❤️🙏

I've had both before but have to say I sway towards Mollies. I have a large tank with just Saffron Mollies and a shoal. We have the perfect water for them were i am and they thrive! Also look beautiful against a dark background.

Great info as usual. I'm a relatively new fish keeper, hitting some bumps along the way, but learning more each week. I have a 13 gallon tank with a couple of platys, a betta, and just picked up two panda garra's yesterday to help clean up some of that brown algae. They all seem to be getting along for the most part with the occasional betta reminding the platys whos boss.

Thanks for the video. Even though these are two of my least favorite fish and I will likely never own them again, I learned a bunch about them so if I run into people new to the hobby, maybe I can have some good info to share instead of my negative biases.

i keep mollies, swordtails, endlers and platies together. I find them all equally hardy ,almost no problems at all. I keep the water around 72 degrees and the hardness a slightly high, and they have been breeding like crazy! I love that they both eat whatever i feed them (blood worms, crisp, flakes, wafers, and brine shrimp. I did have a fungal outbreak at one point, but the few causalities I had were quickly replaced by dozens of fry. Luckily i have a 75 gallon tank, but I would recommend starting with only a few, they reproduce very rapidly.

Happy Monday. Very good topic of discussion. I really prefer platies. They are much more tolerant and hardy little fish. I find their personalities are better, too. They really get along with their tankmates. Recommend keeping 1 male to 3 females at least. The good thing is both males and females are beautiful. Both fish pick at algae, especially string algae, so there's another plus. Overall, great fish in the right setup. Take care.

I have I had adult mollies in a 29 for a while, when I was saving to move my Oscars, but have moved all the adults to a 75g, and I use several 29s and a 50 tub for fry grow outs. Quite a few of those adults are about 3-3.5" in length.

My Black Mollies are so active I'll feed them and they'll zoom from one end to the other for food, or when they're excited lol:). Great video always too

My mollies are completely freshwater, and breeding like there is no tommarow 🙂I love my standard black mollies, and I agree, these fish can take care of themselves. I have some as “dithers” in my shelldwellers aquarium. When the Shellie’s charge 8 out of 10 times the mollies stand they’re ground! The multis are still able to raise young and nobody is getting hurt. HAPPY MONDAY!!🙂👍🏻

Great info!!

Very beautiful fishes 😍👍

I love my platies but I'd love to do a native sailfin molly tank some day too. Maybe with dragon gobies.

I tried Mollies years ago and never had much luck. I think it's because the ones sold around here were bred in brackish water then sold in fresh. They should really like our local water it sounds perfect for them. When mine were doing the death wobble I slowly added salt to the tank which seemed to help some but I think the shifting from brackish to fresh in the stores then back to brackish did them no good.

Love y'all This is such a great topic

Happy Monday

Started with platies and now im keeping mollies since im keeping more semi aggressive fish, but i still love both fish. I remember being like 9 and getting excited when my platies gave birth

Platies are adorable cauz they are brave and interactive. I like that 💓

I enjoy the VS videos very good match ups.

Fishtastic vid

I love both fish. In my experiences in the platies do better in an unheated aquarium but the mollies will graze on algae all day long. Six of one and half dozen of the other. Cheers.

I remember when I got into this hobby, I bought a mislabeled fish. I was told it was Platys but turns out they were Mollies 😂

Cheers from turkey. Good video we cant find special breeds of plati which is white and red mixed.

I started the hobby with mollies (July last year), I may have been freaked out but the ‘oh so casual’ way they eat their fry 😳 plop plop gobble, plop plop gobble. I’ve gotten better at the ‘cycle of life’ concept. But still, I can’t help but want all of them to live, they are adorable.

I like the blue wag tail platys

I am trying to add some fish to my 29 gallon which already has 6 cherry barbs and I know I want either one of these live bearers to go with them. Platys sound easier (I've only been keeping fish a year and a half) but I am still partial to the mollies. I think they are a little more interesting-looking and I love the black or dalmatian ones.. Maybe if I could find the darker varieties of platys.

I choose platy thanks for the video.

When I first started out with a community tank, I got a handful of platy from petsmart/co one or the other but one turned out to be a male swordtail once he grew up! I loved him. He was orange and blue so I called him Mets

great vid

When I set up my 29 gal. 2 months ago, I included 4 marble lyretail mollies with guppies, neon tetras, albino corys. At first I lightly salted the water, but noticed that my live plants were not doing so well. After watching a number of YT videos on salt vs. non-salt, I decided to cut out the salt and have gradually water-changed it out. Now plants look great and mollies are amazing. My only regret is that I got 2 pairs of mollies, so the poor girls are being bothered constantly...but they do get after the males when they've had enough!

I know I've commented about how large my platies are on another channel of yours, but I got out my measuring tape today after watching your video and they clear 3 inches, and are definitely platies. They are monsters, to a degree that when I see videos of other people's platies I've always thought they were juveniles! What is going on? lol

30 years ago we used black mollies to cycle marine tanks.

Good video

Variatus platys are my personal favorite. I love the fact that they don’t require a heater. Taking the heater out of the equation is nice. One last thing to go wrong

I've kept mollies but platies and swordtails are still on my list! I want to try some of the wild type swordtails. Have you thought about bringing those in? Select aquatics has some cool pics of some of the species. (was trying to link the specific page but youtube no like 😛 )

I love my platies ❤

I had Solid Black and Solid White Sailfin Mollys, that cross breed, so I had Mollys that were very different! I use to take the Babies, back to the Pet Store, and Swap for Fish Food!

I have 4 mollies and 6 Cory cats I want to add angel fish is that ok?

Mollies get my vote. Something super dramatic about the male's sailfin displays. Simply beautiful

Good Morning.

I had a group of breeding platys (love them), but when I moved, I donated all but two female fry who evaded capture. They grew up and were gorgeous, but the dominant one picked on the other, who has since died, and now the remaining one mostly hides at the bottom in the plants, poor thing. She shares the 20L with 8 neon and 10 ember tetras, plus 2 snails. Come out, Sister Platy!

I have a 2 :1 feet tank i brought 1 black and 1orange female and 1 orange male , the male runs behind the orange one and the black one protects the orange F who was been chased is this normal or is it to worry as the orange F hides and breathes heavily

Lol My Mickey mouse platy was SUUPER aggressive. Took him back to the store. My black mollys grew Huge. Like 3.5 inches!! They arent aggressive but very fin nippy. I love livebearers but i find them very susceptible to disease. Livebearers accelerated my aquarium keeping knowledge. Challenging at first. Thanks for the upload!

Platies forever 🥰they are so friendly then mollies, also breeding, easy to care😬

My platies and Mollies live in peace and harmony together. Predominately a male set up. I made sure my Molly girls were considerably bigger than the guys when I got them. That way they hold their own and not chased to death. When Angela gets annoyed she just shove them out of the way meaning leave me alone right now. And that’s exactly what they do. 😂 The platies love to play and rip and run. They don’t bother anyone but their own. Unless there’s a bully threat and they school in protection and confidence. But I’ve since gotten rid of the bullies and killers. I have other species but they are passive and hiders! My tiger stripe tetras come out mostly at night and they love being the security guards. Omg I swear they never sleep lol. But they keep to themselves too. Once their territory is set they don’t bother anyone. The little chaos I get is around feeding time. But there’s no fighting because I feed them well. Three different types of food on their menu. Not all at once of course but different days they get different things. And occasional snacks. I tried the pea diet but no one really likes that but the mollies. I guess because it resembles algae idk. When everyone goes to their sleeping spot that tells me it’s time to turn the lights off. lol Had to reinforce the lid cover because when the platies see me the almost jump out of the tank trying to get to me. lol My tank is spoiled and they know it. love my set up!! Going on 2 years now! 😊

I have a Question : ! have a 8 gallon tank and I put 6 female and 2 male mollies. there are few money plant inside and a few hiding place. 4 females are loaded and may give birth within a month. I don't want to separate frys. Is it ok??/ And I want to make another 8 gallon tank and put 4 platies and 5 mollys as a community tank with same setup(few hiding places and some money plants.Is it going to be ok to not separate frys?

Thank you for posting such great videos,but on the other hand you make me want to devote some of my tanks to things besides working on my strain of super reds. I need to hit the lottery and just have a fish warehouse!😃Any tips towards that end would be greatly appreciated!

What type of gourami do you have in the platy tank that u kept showing

Do you guys have any advice on how to remove freshwater bristle worms? I don't want to do anything too toxic cause my poor beta will suffer :( but manually removing them seems like an impossible task

Happy Monday! I recently spoke to Someone who was clueless, Arguing with me that Platies and Mollies are the same thing🧐🤔🙄.🤩 I thank you for this timely video.Going to play it so I can re-clarify for this individual. How ridiculous! 2 weeks ago this person put five black mollies, one long fin Leopard tetra, 10 zebras,6 rasboras in a uncycled 20 gallon tank with 0 plants.Already looking to put in more fish.. I tried to advise him You're overloading that tank. Of course I handed my phone over so he could watch your videos . ( Hey, if he's not going to listen to me, listen to the experts ,!)?If he ends up with a huge ammonia spike or something else happens, oh well, we tried to tell him. On a much better note, I Have not put my Community live-bearers together yet but the more information I have the better off I'm going to be 😁. A good student 😇😇😇

Which one is a better feeder fish?

I rescued feeder Molly and platy. The female are 3 inches ! I am shock how big the can get .

Have a question on freshwater 90 gallon aquarium with a 20 gallon sump is it possible to use a submersible pump inside the aquarium tank to deliver water to sump with check valve and the same equal pump returning the water back to the aquarium would this work any questions please help

Are the Platys tolerant of tank chemicals? (generally)

My friend: pLaTiEs aRe bEtTeR tHaN mOlLiEs Me: *And i took that personally*

The mollies overan my 75 gallons planted tank. I had 9 at the beginning, now i have over 200. Giving away still can't keep up with their reproducing.

I have a 10 gallon fish tank and I have five fish in them which is one catfish to Pilates and two mollies and they get along just fine the fish guy told me that it’s fine to have five in a tank because they get along and also because there’s plenty enough room for most of them to run around now yeah They do like to explore but I feed them all enough where they don’t interrupt each other definitely my black Molly is the most assertive and the biggest one they are all females so we don’t have any breeding going on and they interact just fine all of them love each other and they get along I think my other four female fish get along and are OK with being submissive to the black Molly

Hello gang. I'm a newby myself and have a silly question. How do platys do in tannin water as far as healthy living and maybe breeding?

What’s weird for me, had a fish room for 8 years, And platys are the only fish that always just die for me. Higher PH and hard water in Ohio. No idea why.

Can someone tell me how many platies can go in a 20 gal long

Can platies live with guppies in a ten gallon?

a few female fresh water dalmation mollies to brackish for him.

Hi guys, can you keep platys and balloon mollies in the same tank?

What happend to that joint effort video series of all KZfaq fish people?

Ream Molly! Yes (specifically balloon mollies!! ) So cute.

Off topic guys, but I need to know if I can put my severum in my new angel fish tank? It'll be at least a week before I'll start putting any fish in there.

Ok I'm going to try and put all the information it can--- HELP!!! LOL 😆 We are fighting a green water issue. We bought a Master Water kit. Tested our water, PH around 6.4/7.0,amoinna 0,nitrate 0 basically all the test were 0. We bought the Mean Green Killing Machine, been in for 2 days, kinda better, we also bought a 6 inch air stone, would the air stone be putting to much oxygen in the tank to keep the alge growing? We are going to retest the water today and do a 50% water change. We only have 5 fish in the tank and it's a fresh water tank. Advice would be much appreciated 👍

i was just wondering which 1 to keep in my 20 long

Hello my white molly has a gravid spot is she pregnant? Please help

I'm sorry this is off topic, but my tanks are being taken over by green hair algae. Have you every used hydrogen peroxide to kill it in your tanks, or to clean plants and other things in the tank by dipping them in peroxide? Thank you!

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What is the difference between molly and platy?

With my experience of Molly's they can be very aggressive

भाई मेरे पास मोली फिश है क्युरियम मे पाणी गंदा हो रहा है तो हम फिटकरी दाल सकते है क्या

I wish this video existed when I first started. I now have three mollies and just recently learned they can become HUUGE.

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Do you have a video on this "death wobble"? Sounds like a metal band name. Have you done a video on things to look out for when buying a fish? The obvious red flags like this death wobble.

i'm never keeping mollies again. they fight away too much 🤣