hehoo

I finally broke down and bought an adult molly, after trying over and over unsuccessfully to raise them. Put him in my tank, he started attacking everything. I gave him time, thought maybe he’d calm down. No. Now all my pretty guppies have fin nips. I am not pleased. Any ideas how to calm him down?

kra-z-fishmumm

What other fish are in with the molly? btw,,,umm you have too many fish in tank #2... 1" (adult size) of fish to 1 gallon of water.

sameerjoshi99

well this is wat i have done!! bought bowl and put 3 mollies in them 2 females and one male!! while buying the fish ensured that one of them was pregnant after about 2 weeks had a aroung 10-15 frys in the bowl!! seperated the adult fish and gave them back for store credit!! [store guy is school frnd may not wrk with you!]

now i have several frys which after a month or so will be released in my 10g tank with other fish!! though im planning to give half of them away!! you want some?

hehoo

Yeah, I recently realized my tank is way overcrowded. The other fish are just guppies and a random array of swordtails and platys, but I haven't counted how many in a while. I did realize there is too many, and am trying to lower the population. I've gotten rid of about 8 - 10 fish I'd say, mostly I gave away my female guppies, attempting to stop the breeding. A lot of what I have is young guppies also, from the last batch, so I gotta wait til they get bigger to descern gender, they're not fry but they're not big enough to tell yet. I think I may have missed a female platy or swordtail, I get confused on telling them apart. My point is, I'm trying to lower the population, and feel bad it's way too high. And hopefully no more breeding. In the meantime, I stuck Toro (named cuz he kept attacking my pretty red tail guppies) in my other tank with the 2 dwarf puffers, 5 gobys, and 2 otos. Added some plants. Seems to be going oddly well. The dps were bought because I stupidly made an impulse "oh-they're-so-cute" purchase so I had to buy a whole new set up after they also attacked my guppies. Some people say they should be in brackish water, but they're happy and growing and healthy and a lot of people also say freshwater is fine, which is what they're in. So, my more "aggressive" tank, seems oddly as peaceful as my community tank at the moment ...

hehoo

Just an update on my overfilled tank ... Now I'm down to 12 guppies (I believe 4 yellow, 4 yellow & blue, and 4 red tails), 3 neon swordtails, 2 Mickey Mouse platys, 1 platy swordtail (at least that's what it looks like to me) 1 threadfin rainbow, 1 harlequin rasbora, 7 cories (1 black pepper, 1 panda, the rest albino), and 1 chocolate albino pleco. I'm aware that this is still far too much, but I'm working on it. I can only pry myself away from so many at a time, I'm really attached to them. Sold and gave away over 20 fish recently. I can't believe I didn't realize my little 10 gallon was getting so massively overcrowded. My pleco's gonna have to go soon anyway as he's getting big ... Gotta get a smaller type next time I get one. Heartbreaking to have to keep giving them away when they get big.

Swany

what you might want to do if you dont want to keep giving them away is search craigslist.org thats where i got my 33 gallon long and everything for it for $60, and my gf got a 55 gallon with hood for $40 so its just idea, also check other towns that are close to you because it always worth the short drive for a cheap tank.
-swany