mikinho

Barbrella

First of all, your tank sounds absolutely lovely, and I hope you can post some pics of it.

Unfortunately, your tank is stocked to the max, (with the fry it's way overstocked) and there's no way you can add any more fish, unless you really reduce the number of livebearers you have by quite a few.

All those livebearers put a big strain on the bioload since they are prodigious eaters and poopers. Corys, in particular, are sensitive to pollutants in the water, so keep a close eye on your parameters.

I don't know what to tell you about all the fry (which are probably increasing in number even as I type this) As you see, most petstores have no interest in livebearer fry. I guess the guy who sold all the fish to you won't take any either?

The only thing I can suggest, and you probably won't like: Remove the plants, catch all the fry, remove all the male or female adult platies and mollies, bag them all up and just take them to the petstore you got them from. Hopefully they'll take them back.

Maybe someone else here will have better ideas.

One more thing - never ever take advice or ask suggestions of petstore employees. Mostly they just want your money, and know little to nothing about the fish they sell.

ashley

Barbrella is right, you can't put anymore fish in there without taking some out first. One other thing, if you do decide to get rid of some of the livebearers. Do not put an Angel fish in with them. It will eat the smaller fish (Once it is larger). I know from experience when I first began keeping fish. At first they were all getting along fine and then all of a sudden when my Angelfish was larger all of my guppies and neons were gone. If you don't want fry the only thing you can do is make sure you only have males or females. You can't mix the two. As mean as it sounds when I have too many fry, I put them in my other tank with an Angelfish, Gold Gourami, and Rainbow Shark. They eventually take care of them. I am like you and just can't deal with that many fry. That is one option if you are wanting to keep all of your adult fish. Get another tank and put more agressive fish in it and use your fry as feeder fish.
Hope everything works out.

mikinho

Thanks for the responses. I found a home for the adult Mollies and the Fancy Guppy. I'm going to see if I can find a home for the Platties and look to pick up a single Angelfish that will hopefully take care of the remaining fry over time. I'd love to get additional, larger tanks and I've been very tempted but I know I don't have the room or the time at the moment.

mikinho

Barbrella, here is a picture of the tank. Excuse the poor quality, it was taken with my phone. I'll be sharing more pictures (I've got a good one of my dog and cats lined up staring at the tank) once the dwarf baby tears get a chance to grow. I'm also considering a Christmas moss wall after seeing some of the pictures here.

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Tavel

You could give the fry to someone with an aquatic turtle or something. they're ALWAYS looking for cheap snacks.

Shawnie

great looking tank..and good pic from a cell phone!! goodluck!

hssea

i love the tank, beautiful plants

Richard

Yup.. that's a great looking tank.