Lovely Little Platy Tank!

[LyraGuppi]

Great!

These are livebearers, so you will end up with the same fry issue as mollies... only worse! Endlers and guppies rarely eat their own fry. Mollies will eat their own fry.
The joys of livebearers.

It might not be a bad idea to mix in a platy or 3... males would be best. These could act as 'natural cullers'. (Sad I know, but with endlers and guppies you'll be over run before you know it.)
I'll consider it, I was planning to sell some online and to my LFSs, and maybe net some fry into the future angelfish tank..or sorority...I'm vicious! Would it be best to understock? What numbers should I consider?
I know it sounds crazy, but I'm considering getting the 20 fry for 25 dollars. Would this work?

And if you are still thinking about shrimp... some shrimp will also help to keep your numbers of fry down a bit. You don't want the biggest shrimp (like Amano Shrimp) with endlers, because the endlers are so small themselves. But, others might help out, even cherry shrimp might help, as the endler fry is so very small at first.
A local breeder has some nice shrimp, so I'll get from him.

 

[NickAu]

Nice looking tank Lyra.

 

[LyraGuppi]

My mom does not like endlers.

  Kill me now. I think we'll go the platy route, but ideas are welcome.

 

[LyraGuppi]

Yeah, this journal got messed up. XD I should have researched a bit more, thank you Eagle for helping me out!
But I think I'll stick with it! To preserve the internet trees making all these journals....
 
So let us start again! And pretend the title is....
 

Lovely Little Platy Tank!​

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This is where the actual journal begins!​

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So now the wait for the cycle to be done. :3​

 

[LyraGuppi]

Nevermind, this journal is closed.
Shoo!
Run along now, there's nothing for you here!

 

[eaglesaquarium]

What happened?

 

[LyraGuppi]

Nothing, just decided not to journal this tank.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

That's sad.

 

[LyraGuppi]

Would you like this to turn into a journal?
 
I didn't want to also, because if I do put mollies in, I didn't want to make you edit the title again or feel like I just pushed all your help aside.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

All part of the process. Not a big deal either way.

 

[LyraGuppi]

Okay then, didn't want to hurt your feelings or anything.
 
Aaaaand nevermind again on the journal, it is back open!
 
NickAu, your content feed will be flooded. XD

Whether or not the tank with be a molly stocking, IDK.

 

[LyraGuppi]

Ok, the tank is holding mollies at the moment. I don't have many pics as these guys are really camera shy, but I noticed a few spots of........
 
 
 

DUN DUN DUN DUN​

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Ich! Poop. I added the salt and am going to raise the temp to 82 today.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

The salt method is the best method for mollies.   You can actually take the concentration up to full marine salinity, if necessary... if you do it slow enough.  

 

[LyraGuppi]

Poor mollies are a bit stressed. The temp is at 80 and there is 9 tbs of salt in their tank..it's the waiting game now.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Up the oxygenation...