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A fact from Poecilia sphenops appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 February 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the black molly might not be a black molly?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fancy molly.

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Fresh or salt water?

Odd, the article Poecilia says they are fresh-water but the habitat entry for this article sounds like salt water (or I just don't understand it not being expert in zoology). Can someone check and add it to the article?

I came over here from the article on brackish water, which said that mollies are sold as a freshwater fish but can sometimes do better in brackish (not salt) water. Maybe that clears things up a bit. Arianna 05:02, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I live in Central America (From where most of the molly typer are) and I can tell they do live in fresh wather river, lakes and some other water volumes.

They do Brakish as well but not Salt Wather.

Black/midnight confusion

Black molly and midnight molly are not synonims. Black molly is melanistic P. sphenos. Midnight molly is melanistic P. latipinna. Need sources before affirm black molly is P. sphenops x P. latipinna. Ankylosaurus08 (talk) 07:54, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 04:37, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Lyretail black mollies

... that the black molly (pictured) might not be a black molly?

Source: "Allerdings: gibt es ihn überhaupt, 'den' Black Molly? Oder ist es nicht vielmehr so, dass es eine ganze Reihe von schwarzen Molliensern gibt, mit ganz unterschiedlichen Stammeltern? Letztere Situationsbeschreibung trifft sicher eher zu, als 'den' Black Molly als 'schwarze Zuchtform des Spitzmaulkärpflings, Poecilia sphenops' zu definieren, wie es in zahlreichen Aquarienbüchern gehandhabt wird." [1]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Roller disco, Template:Did you know nominations/1972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse
Comment: The hook might turn out to be more interesting without the image. I leave it to the discretion of the reviewer and the promoter.

Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 196 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 11:00, 9 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Prior to expansion Poecilia sphenops was at 626B and it's now at 6032B, so it's been expanded by 5X recently enough. Fancy molly was created recently enough. Both pages are long enough. Two reviews have been done, so QPQ is good. None of the sources seem unreliable to me, but I have to AGF on the German source because I cannot read German. Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine is a hobbyist magazine but that doesn't necessarily mean it's unreliable, especially on the subject of tropical fish breeds. WP:EARWIG says both articles are fine in terms of potential plagiarism. The hook is fun and interesting, and I agree that it's probably better without the image. Overall, it seems good to me! Di (they-them) (talk) 02:31, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]