Mollies are jerks

[Mortaliton]

I always loved angelfish but I didn't have them because of my tiger barbs, so I ended up re homing the barbs since they just kept excessively fighting in my tank.

So I got a few angelfish to replace the barbs , 6 inch max fish. I also got some mollies to finish off the tank. Worked great. I added some mollies at the same time. They were done for a couple of days but now they are nipping on my angelfish.

Now from what I Can tell I have a couple Prego mollies so I have a breeding net coming. The males chase them like a bee to a flower. But my angelfish are straight push overs and don't really fight back and go and hide. One angel you can tell it's fine are nipped but it's not bad by any means. Although Any nipped ton is bad, infection and all that.

Any ideas how to curb the aggression? Tanks well planted and plenty of hiding spots. I've just never had a molly be a jerk before. From what I can tell it's 2 males that are doing most of the bullying.

I was thinking of putting them in a breeding net in the same tank for a couple of days. Re arrange and re introduce.

Thoughts?

Thank You

 

[Mb7640]

I would say try to rearrange thats crazy I had mollies and angel fish with no issues

 

[Colin_T]

get rid of the males.

don't put female livebearers in breeding nets because it stresses them out.

mollies and angelfish come from completely different types of water.
angels come from soft acid water (GH below 100ppm, pH below 7.0).
mollies come from hard alkaline water (GH above 250ppm, pH above 7.0).

To find out what the GH (general hardness), KH (carbonate hardness) and pH of your water supply is, contact your water supply company by website or telephone. If they can't help you, take a glass full of tap water to the local pet shop and get them to test it for you. Write the results down (in numbers) when they do the tests. And ask them what the results are in (eg: ppm, dGH, or something else).