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	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Sailfin Molly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The sailfin molly is found in fresh, brackish, and coastal salt water in coastal lowland habitats from North Carolina to Texas and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
		Sailfin mollies introduced to California have caused a decline in populations of the federally endangered desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius).
		Sailfin mollies are most commonly observed in the shallow surface waters along the edges of marshes, lowland streams, ponds, swamps, estuaries and even ephemeral water bodies such as roadside ditches.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/Gallery/Descript/SailfinMolly/SailfinMolly.html (1083 words)

	Mollies, Short-finned Molly Sailfin Molly Mexican Sailfin Molly, Poecilia sphenops
		On the sailfin mollies the dorsal fin is situated in front of the anal fin, while on the common molly this fin starts behind the anal fin.
		Mollies are often found in saline waters and it is recommended that 1 to 1.25 teaspoons of non-iodized salt be added to the aquarium water.
		The common molly is a bit hardier and can be kept in a smaller aquarium, whereas the sailfin mollies are more delicate and need a larger aquarium with plenty of room.
	animal-world.com /encyclo/fresh/livebearers/molly.php (1176 words)

	mollie - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Mollies are found from the E and central United States to Argentina.
		Solid fl mollies are artificially bred from any of several mollie species, although mottled fl sailfin mollies sometimes occur in nature.
		Mollies are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Cyprinodontiformes, family Poeciliidae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mollie.html (429 words)

	Animal Library: Fish: Mollies
		Mollies are often portrayed as a difficult fish to maintain and are commonly only kept as a freshwater fish.
		However, we have found mollies to be quite easy to keep and breed in the marine environment if you keep in mind a few essential aspects such as fairly good water quality, proper nutrition, and their temperature requirements.
		Mollies are often the first fish in a community tank to show signs of being affected by an unbalanced aquarium, so they could be viewed as indicator species.
	www.saltcorner.com /sections/zoo/mollies.htm (925 words)

	NAGARAJAN'S WEBPAGE FOR BEGINNER'S TROPICAL FISH AQUARIUM
		Sailfin Mollies like salt in their water, easier to keep in a species tank of their own.
		Sail-fin Mollies need plenty of room to grow to achieve the high Sail-fin and it will not usually develop in a tank smaller than 30 gallons and only then when there is only one or two fish.
		Mollies are especially prone to "shimmies", this can be cured with the addition of 2 teaspoons of salt per gallon and an increase in temperature to about 80°F. They are also easily kept in a community tank requiring water of same pH levels.
	madhunag.tripod.com /sailfinmolly.html (469 words)

	Breeding tropical fish
		Mollies originate from central and northeast south america, with their range extending into north america and the west indies.
		Mollies are often kept in new saltwater aquaria in order to cycle the tank before rare or expensive fishes are introduced.
		On odd occasions mollies can give birth to a few unformed fry, these appear as large white eggs and should be disposed of (assuming you have no egg laying species, or they occour at the same time as free swimming fry are discovered).
	groups.msn.com /Breedingtropicalfish/breedingmollies.msnw (398 words)

	molly
		Mollies are popular tropical fish even though most of them are not as easy to keep as livebearers like platys and swordtails.
		Mollies can survive mainly on dry foods, but it would be better to add some vegetable diet to daily feeding.
		If you are a beginner, mollies, or at least sailfin mollies would not be a good choice for beginner fish as mollies are not as easy to keep as other livebearers.
	www.geocities.com /angiefishdudette/molly.html (361 words)

	Fish note - Sailfin Molly (Poecilia latipinna) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sailfin mollies are popular aquarium fish, but have become a pest in some Queensland waterways due to people releasing them.
		Sailfin mollies may be kept in an aquarium, but are not to be released.
		Sailfin mollies are able to live in freshwater and brackish environments.
	www2.dpi.qld.gov.au /fishweb/14272.html (557 words)

	Molly Fish
		TANK SIZE and SET UP The Molly is a fairly versitile fish, and although they might survive in a 5gallon tank, Mollies, along with most other fish, will be more proned to disease when confined to such a small space.
		Sailfin Mollies must have LOTS of open water for swimming.
		All mollies are omnivores; they will eat algae off the glass and décor items which makes them usefull, but they also eat most plants.
	groups.msn.com /MollyFish/mycyberpet39shome.msnw (232 words)

	Sailfin Molly - Poecilia latipinna
		Sailfin mollies are the ONLY mollies I keep.
		The molly in the pic is a "red" molly, they are a hybrid but IMO the best color variation appart from the fls.
		My roommate and I have several aquariums, one of which is dedicated to sailfin mollies of all types.
	www.aquahobby.com /gallery/e_molly2.php (682 words)

	The Schlupp Lab - Behavior, Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Amazon mollies are gynogens and reproduce asexually but require sperm, commonly from male Sailfins, to trigger embryogenesis.
		Sailfin mollies are a sexual species that commonly live in the same habitat as Amazon mollies.
		Theoretically, Amazon mollies should cause Sailfin mollies to go extinct because of their ability to increase in numbers more quickly.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /S/Ingo.B.Schlupp-1/htm/felicia.htm (156 words)

	Mollies Poecilia aquarium tropical fish from Tim's Tropicals
		The Molly comes in a wide variety of colors and three main types: short fin, sail fin and Mexican.
		Sailfin mollies are larger and have a long, broad dorsal fin.
		Mollies will eat their young, so it is important to either have a heavy plant cover or a separate breeding tank.
	www.timstropicals.com /Inventory/Livebearer/MollyInfo.asp (272 words)

	Mollies
		Over the next 20 minutes it would be measured on which side of their compartment the middle molly is. Afterwards both shoals would be swapped in place and the test repeated to eliminate the confounding factor of a possible size preference.
		A clear preference to the conspecific shoal would show that female sailfin molly are able to discriminate between the two species.
		Studying on the sympatric species of sexually reproducing sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna) and gynogenic amazon mollies(Poecilia formosa) it is shown that males do nevertheless get a benefit by mating with female gynogenes in an asuexual-sexual complex of fish.
	www.foxden.net /~terriekitten/Glasses/Mollies.html (1466 words)

	Choosing Your Live-Bearer
		Guppies, Sailfin Mollies, Swordtails, and the Platy, or Moonfish.
		The Molly is a very large fish and tends to grow to 3 ½ inches (9 cm.) in length.
		The male possesses the beautiful sailfin, which can extend the whole length of the back and be higher than the depth of his body.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/breeding_tropical_fish/58705 (490 words)

	Molly Profile, with care, maintenance requirements and breeding information for your tropical fish
		The best known is the "classic" Black Molly where the back is usually Olive Brown and the sides may be silvery with a Green or Blue luster marked with a series of brown or Orange dots.
		Be warned that mollies CAN be aggressive and every once in awhile you can get one that has an attitude problem, worse than just a pecking order claim on life.
		I have found that male sailfin mollies tend to be much less resistant to diseases than their female counterparts.
	badmanstropicalfish.com /profiles/profile24.html (1633 words)

	My Favorite Aquarium fish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		There are three species of mollies, the short finned molly, the sailfin mollies, and the Mexican sailfin mollies.
		Mollies are omnivores which means they will generally eat all kinds of live fresh and flake foods.
		Mollies also like to have hiding places so when you start their aquarium make sure there are plenty of places they can hide.
	schoolweb.missouri.edu /ashland.k12.mo.us/cp/03page/webpage.htm (1099 words)

	Aquarium Fish Deals - Livebearers - Sailfin Molly - Poecilia latipinna (Black Sailfin Molly, Sphenop Molly, Mexican ...
		Principal habitats of the Sailfin Molly are edges of streams, ponds, canals, and swamps with heavy vegitation.
		Sailfin Mollys are omnivorous and requires both meaty foods as well as algae.
		The sailfin molly is sexually dimorphic; males have a longer, higher sail-like dorsal fin that lies close to the fish and that can be extended like a sail.
	www.fishdeals.com /livebearers/mollies/sailfin_mollies (986 words)

	Aquarium Fish Deals - Livebearers - Molly Species (Mollies)
		There is an apparent myth in molly lore indicating that females may reverse their sex and become large males, This myth probably generated because late-maturing males are physically similar to females and grow to large size before beginning to mature.
		Mollies are not generally long lived due to their deep hybridizations.
		All varieties of mollies are livebearers meaning internal fertilization, and subsequent development of the eggs occurs inside the body of the female fish.
	www.fishdeals.com /livebearers/mollies (1013 words)

	Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates » Freshwater Fish » Molly - Sailfin Main Page
		Sailfin Mollies should be kept in open spaces with live plants for hiding places.
		Sailfin Mollies normally do best when kept in large aquariums and some are bred in outdoor ponds.
		Though it has been recommended that female Sailfin Mollies should give birth in a separate tank with plenty of vegetation if they are to be bred in aquariums.
	www.centralpets.com /animals/fish/freshwater_fish/fwf4592.html (617 words)

	Texas State News in Review
		But a new study shows that male sailfin mollies produce more sperm when they are around females of their own species than when they're in the company of strangers.
		Male sailfin mollies (bottom) produce less sperm in the presence of Amazon mollies (top) than they do when females of their own species are nearby.
		To test their hunch, the scientists constructed a fish tank with a Plexiglas divider and placed a male sailfin molly on one side.
	www.mrp.txstate.edu /mrp/relations/news/news196_scinow.html (474 words)

	Sailfin Molly - Poecillia velifera
		The sailfin molly is so named because of the spectacular dorsal fin on the mature male.
		Originally the sailfin molly was olive green but selective breeding has produced gold and silver coloured albino variations.
		Like other molly varieties, sailfin mollies should be fed on a diet of spirulina or other green food.
	www.e-aquarium.com.au /sailfin_molly.htm (287 words)

	Differential Sperm Allocation by Male Sailfin Mollies
		We studied this conflict using the all-female Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, and the closely related sailfin molly, P. latipinna.
		We tested two hypotheses in relation to this paradox: (1) Male sailfin mollies will produce less sperm in the presence of Amazon mollies than when in the presence of female sailfin mollies.
		Males from a population that does not occur with Amazon mollies and males from a population that does occur with Amazon mollies produce more sperm when in the presence of a conspecific female than when in the presence of a heterospecific female.
	ecommons.txstate.edu /osp_regs/1 (311 words)

	Behavioral Ecology of Sailfin and Amazon Mollies
		Research Assistantship for M. applications are being sought for one student interested in pursuing an academic career studying various aspects of the behavior of sailfin and Amazon mollies starting summer 2002.
		Amazon mollies, Poecilia formosa, are a unisexual (all female) species of molly that are parasitic on the closely related bisexual sailfin molly, P. latipinna.
		Conflict exists between male sailfin mollies trying to mate with the right species, and the unisexual females trying to appropriate a mating from these males.
	www.animalbehavior.org /ABSNews/1014394207/index_html (360 words)

	Texas State News in Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		What makes the Amazon molly so intriguing is that they are a unisexual, clonal species in which all members are genetically-identical females.
		Reproduction is triggered by mating with male sailfin mollies, an act which stimulates the egg to develop, even though the male sailfin molly contributes no genetic material to the offspring.
		“However, Amazon mollies have persisted in the wild for more than 100,000 years, implying that throughout their evolutionary history male sailfin mollies make mating mistakes at a frequency high enough to maintain the populations of Amazon mollies.
	www.mrp.txstate.edu /mrp/relations/newsreleases/2004/05/26n1.html (387 words)

	Mollys
		During the death of the > last one (which bothered me the most since it was the biggest Molly > i've ever seen, -at- nearly the size of my sailfins) it rubbed off most > of its anal fins on a rock in the tank.
		Any way, I have her and a male fl molly in a >2 1/2 gallon hex tank with plastic breeding grass and other plants >at the bottom.
		All the mollies I've owned had serious problems with fungus all their lives.
	www.thekrib.com /Fish/molly.html (1066 words)

	Discriminating males alter sperm production between species -- Aspbury and Gabor 101 (45): 15970 -- Proceedings of the ...
		sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna) in the presence of conspecific
		mollies, and males from sympatric populations have a greater
		or a sailfin molly) was placed in the other section of the tank.
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/101/45/15970 (3409 words)

	Viviparous Forums - Sailfin Mollies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The problem is the farms producing all the millions of mollies around the world keep ther fish in a saline water to reduce stress and encourage better better growth rates.
		I would say that most mollies imported into the country are keped this way and that why so many people get problems with them at first till they use tonic salts.
		It should also be noted that the size of the sailfin is primary a genetic thing, in the wild ex latipinnas have bot short fin pops and high fin pops.
	www.livingfish.co.uk /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=625 (482 words)

	GuppyLog \|\| Can I breed other types of mollies
		Without having made a study of this myself, it is still reasonable to assume that hobby hybrid types in the Xiphophorus group (the hobby swordtail/variatus/platys group) and mollies probably have gonopodia, which are somewhat intermediate between the original wild species.
		The Sailfin is a contribution of a couple of wild species - P. latipinna from the southern U.S. and perhaps Mexico's P. velifera.
		Searching for balloon belly mollies will plug you in with an oriental tendency to develop egg-shaped fishes and sometimes spirited controversy among aquarists over when it is ok to reproduce "sports" of the original species with skeletal alterations.
	www.guppylog.com /story/2005/8/8/103814/7529 (1452 words)

	Sailfin Mollies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One of the more popular community fish, Mollies come in a variety of colours and forms.
		Mollies are omnivores and therefore flake will suffice for them as they will pick at algae in the tank.
		Robust plants are recommended so that damage to them is kept to a minimum due to this habit.
	www.pufferfish.co.uk /aquaria/species/livebearer/sailmoll.htm (147 words)

	Tropical Fish Centre - Sailfin mollies? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wow eh?) devoted to sailfin mollies and breeing.
		We have a few sailfins and since they were probally bred from both mollies and sailfins, about 50 % trun out to be sailfins and the rest have regular molly fins.
		But mollies in general breed like crazy, so be ready for a bunch of fry.
	tropicalfish.site5.com /tfc/archive/index.php/t-50241.html (180 words)

	FAQ: Good (and Bad) Beginner Fish
		Guppies should be kept in water with at least one teaspoon of salt per five gallons of water.
		Common Mollies are the Black Molly (which was derived from the Marled Molly - Poecilia sphenops) and the Sail-Fin Molly - Poecilia velifera (of which there are also several color varieties available).
		Black Mollies need at least one teaspoon of salt per five gallons of water to keep them healthy and prevent the outbreak of ``ich'' (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, a parasite commonly seen in aquaria) while Sail-Fin Mollies need at least three times this amount.
	faq.thekrib.com /fish-popular.html (6812 words)

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