Guppy Question!

[Georgia_ofthejungle]

Hey there, wonderful fish friends!
 
I finally got my tank! I have been noseying around the forum a while, making threads here and there, but not I officially have my tank! Its a 10G, square shape with a curve at the front of the tank, and I love it! Got a few silk plants in there and a log, and my substrate is black sand (originally had pebbles, but then I thought I was going to get pygmy cories, so I changed my substrate! Now, cories are unlikely)! Sadly my bulb has stopped working, and currently I'm not able to find a new one
 
My current stock is
-two young dalmatian mollies, Potamides and Haliae (water nymphs) though I they are still half the size of my full grown platys, and I have had them for a couple of months (I am aware when they grow to full size they will need to be rehomed to a bigger tank)
-a red wag platy female (Aphrodite)
-a sunset platy male (Ares)
 
Everyone very happily co-exists, and I love all my fish! 
Today when buying my platies, I spotted a absolutely AMAZING guppy male. He was, and I really mean this, fluorescent orange! I would have taken him home with me as well, but I really had no idea about guppies, what they needed, if they were schooling fish, if they were community fish, so I didn't want to risk adopting a fish that wasn't going to be good for my fish situation!
 
Of course now after coming home, I have read up online that they are happy without schooling fish, and are happy in 10G tanks! So I really desperately want to return to my LFS and get him!
 
Just wanting to check that all this guppy info is correct, as I know online information can be dodgy  
 
So just wanting to check, would one male guppy be suitable in my well averagely planted 10G (45L) tank?
 

 

[attibones]

The guppy would be fine. The other fish are too large for a ten gallon. Platies do better with 15-20 and the mollies need at least thirty. Did you cycle your aquarium by adding ammonia and waiting for nitrifying bacteria to develop?

If you can return the mollies and platies, make sure you've cycled your tank, and then you can have around six male guppies. You don't want to add females or you'll be overstocked in a matter of weeks. Even if you get only females, they can come into your tank pregnant, and they can hold sperm for something like six months.
I know you say that it will be a few months before you need to rehome them, but it is always best to buy fish that are suitable for your tank. We see a lot on this forum people who say "oh I'll get the bigger tank later" and then it never works out. Murphy's law and all that. Then they are stuck with fish unsuitable for their tanks. The fish are stunted, live brief lives, and the cycle continues.

 

[Georgia_ofthejungle]

Yes, my tank was cycled before any fish were ever in it  
 
I read up on liveaquaria that platy's were fine in a 10G tank, so I am a now a bit worried about my information from that site
Now I really don't know what to think!
 
Currently my mollies are even a bit smaller than a  siamese fighter, so I am really wanting to keep them until they out grow their tank, but I always had plans to be rehoming when they got to big. 

 

[GriffinC18]

Im not going to say that the tank is to small for the four fish that you have, i don't know as much about mollies and platies than i do about guppies. In your post you did not say the gender of the fish. This is important because if you get a male guppy (by the way you described it i know you will, even if you have to trade a fish for a fish because of size) and you have female mollies or platies, there is a chance that they will breed. That would further increase your "problem" about space.

 

[attibones]

Live aquaria is an online store. They are going to say you can put fish in smaller tanks because they want to make a sale. Seriouslyfish is the better resource.

 

[NeonTetraFish64500]

If you get more than one male guppy and no females the males may fight,but it really depends on the fish.
Good luck!

 

[Georgia_ofthejungle]

Thanks for the seriously fish reference

 

[Georgia_ofthejungle]

Yesterday I adopted a beautiful red veil tail betta boy, who is called Finnick. I am not adding any more fish to my tank.
My mollies will be relocated if they get any bigger, at the moment they are smaller body size wise than my betta, so I feel like they still happily fit.
A previous thread I had when I was asking about what stock I should get for my then empty tank, people said platys were fine for the tank, and seeing how my platys interact with my other fish, and how they move about the tank, I feel like they really are happy in their environment.
 
But honestly though, thank you everyone for all your help. I know it can be very frustrating on a newby forum, and I know my decision about the platys could be frustrating for people, but still thank you. 
I am active on a rat forum, where really it is the people that actually properly care for rats, with suitable cages, food, companions and genetic specific breeding etc, and I know how annoying it is when you have someone who doesn't take on information coming onto the forum. Thank you guys