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Thank you for clearing that up for me that it isn't so much the salinity of the water that matters, but the hardness of the water for mollies and platies. I think I'll just keep hard water fish since my softened water is the salt kind. Will just make things easier for everyone.

Will give an update on how all fish are doing once I get the water hardness levels up.

I know mollies live in brackish water and can't believe I was using the wrong water. I'm not optimistic about the chances of the 2 sick mollies to survive either and that is ok. While I do not like creatures in my care to suffer at my mistakes, as you said, I'm learning and trying to fix them...

I have figured out my water hardness problems. I having been using the wrong water to fill the tanks. We have well water with a water softener and that is the water that I've been using. I made a huge mistake (for reasons unknown) in which water to put in the tanks. I need to use the...

Back in November 2023, I set up my son's 3 gal cylinder fish tank and stocked it with too many fish. I didn't know any better being new to the hobby. After several fish dying, we ended up with 1 female blue platty and 3 male mollies (can't remember the types) that are still alive. For the 3 gal...