How many platies

newbie hob

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hello everyone and thanks for the continuous help and support.

i have read throughout the forum about the stocking of the aquarium, however i have noticed that most of them cover the larger tanks.

Well ingnorance brought me to the stage of wasting too much money and fish that most are lost now and a small aquarium.

Anyway not to take too much of your time, my aquarium is 8 galon curently having a one adult platy and one barb, with two plants (moneywoth, and amazon swords), one submersible filter, one small size ornament. in my other small 1 galon tank i have 6 (4 week old platy fry) two are getting big in size and four are still very small, im thinking of sending them to my LSF once they mature.

Would it be overstocking my tank if i kept two of the six, and had them share the 8 galon tank??

the thing is my family are in love with all the fishies, we would love to keep all of them but finances do not permit that for the time being :sad:

thks
 
Barbs can be fin nippers, as long as you only keep two, I would keep them all the same sex as you don't want to be overun with fry in a small tank.
 

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