Male To Female Life Span

[Waffles]

I have a 25 Gallon tank with 6 different fish. 1 medium goldfish, 1 female sword tail, and a mixture of platy's. Out of the mixture of platy that I do own I only have one male. All of my other male fish have died. I know that my only remaining male can be a bully sometimes, but whenever I buy more males they always end up dead. Is there a reason why to this? I think that both the males and females have a different life span, unless I'm wrong and he is picking on the other males until they die. Any hints, or ideas as to why they keep dying?

 

[Man of fish]

He could just want the ladies to himself. The male:female ratio should be 1 male: every 2+ females so he's right where he wants to be with his 3 females so he may be killing the males

 

[Waffles]

Ahh,that would make more sense now..since he does have...4 females to himself really.

 

[cutemollyfishies]

that could explain why my other male fish had died. I just assumed it was the male being mean to the other fish. It wasn't just the molly fish who died. it was also some tetra and i knew it wasn't my water!!! because the other fish were still alive.

crap. Now I have four male molly fish and three neon tetra and three molly fry (fry are in a different tank) because the female died and I went to the pet store to get two more females.. but the snerd (my made up word lol) said he knew the difference but when I got home he didn't know the difference.

I have a 10 gal tank.. .so three neon tetra and four molly male fishies. SHould I get another female ??? Or should I just wait for one to bite the bullet and die :'(

 

[Man of fish]

If you've got all males it's fine just font get any females also I'd up your neons to 6 as that's the minimum number

 

[cutemollyfishies]

for a 10 gal tank??? I have four molly fish and three tetra and three molly fry .. I think that is the max of fishies I can have, right?

If you've got all males it's fine just font get any females also I'd up your neons to 6 as that's the minimum number

 

[Man of fish]

10 gallons is too small for mollys. they need 30 gallons minimum because males get 3" and females get 4" and yes 6 neons if you have adequate filtration.

 

[Cazgar]

Has nobody noticed the Op has a goldfish in with the swordtails & platys?.
The goldfish if not a fancy variety, it really needs to be in either a pond or a much larger tank