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Thank you Colin! We were thinking that'd be the best choice. We are slowly stocking and aiming for 1 to 6 for our livebearers. One of our female platys wound up being male (not sure if I completely goofed sexing or if it was a late switch) Will be brining one back today.

typical stat q's: 75 gal, 9 platys (2 M 4 F) 3 mollies (1 M 2 F) water stats: Nitrates 10, everything else 0 (API test kit) I have noticed that of our 2 male platys, 1 is bullying the other. We have lots of hiding places for the bullied platy. but he is looking stressed and I noticed that part...

Couldn't really get a good picture. This was my best attempt. Not actually much different from yesterday, although she is out and about more today. Now we have another platy in the 75gal thats acting very similar to how she was acting. Although no scratches that I could see. :(

Thank you Colin, it's only on the one side. I would be very surprised if our bristlenose attached to her so I'm thinking it is prob that she strached herself on something. I think I see a couple more red lines. I'll try to take another picture later this morning. She does seem more active and...

Tank size: 75 gal but relocated to 20 gal pH: 8.2 ammonia: 0 nitrite:0 nitrate: 5 (75) 0 (20) kH:?? gH: I think they said middle at the store last week. Master test kit doesnt test this tank temp:78* Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior)...

thanks!

We recently purchased a 75 gal tank. We have a 20gal tank with 3 mollies and 3 platies and a bristlenose pleco that we want to transfer to the new tank. We have the new tank running with a filter from the 20 gal to help build up the good bacteria community. I assume it's not safe to move all...

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Good on 20g filter 2 female plates 1 female molly 1 bristlenose pleco No live plants

We purchased a 20gal good in aquarium set a few months ago and I don't think the filter we got is able to keep up. We are currently not fully stocked and I've severely cut down on feeding bc I know that was an issue before. Does anyone have filter recommendations for a standard 20 gal tank? Thanks!

I would love some advice! We have a 20gal tank right now. We had 3 mollies, but I found out we had 2 male and 1 female- really bad. The LFS agreed to let us return one male, so we returned the alpha male. Our other male was bullied by the alpha and is now in quarantine (5.5gal) recovering from...

oh good! thanks for responding :)

So this is a pretty much a noobie question...but my Molly has this pretty tail that is obviously different from her other Mollie friends' tails. She's still a molly right?

Oh, I should have been more precise! I meant why is it better to rehome the males and not rehome the female. I certainly dont want the males causing undue stress on her :(

Very interesting about the switching genders! I just read about that last night! I'm just wondering why it's better to rehome the males, I'm assuming bc it's not good to stress preggo momma? Seriously feeling so thankful for the internet today!

thank you so much for the clarification! i didn't realize that was something I could do, will be looking into it!

not sure why it attached so many times. sorry

here are the pictures. what exactly do you mean by "get rid of" the males?

We semi recently upgraded to a 20 gallon tank. We requested 3 of the same sex mollies, which we were told were all female. Well I learned a new trick and now I know there are 2 male mollies and one female. We are in the process of trying to minimize the damage of me overfeeding the fish and I'm...

Thank you! We have all females, wasn't warned about pregnancy when we purchased them or we wpuld have gone all male. I just worried that they wouldn't be as happy without any males

Hey I'm Tina and pretty new to all this. I'm wondering if it is better for livebearers to be stocked with both genders or a single?