Only One Left....

[Meggie :)]

Hey everyone! So in my 38 litre...well something happened in it I don't know what....I thought it was velvet but I wasn't completely sure...well anyway, I treated the thing with salt, moved the cories to the empty betta tank while it was being treated...And everything seems to be fine now...But I only have one fish left (minus the cories and shrimp)...One half grown balloon molly left. And I know they do better in groups, but I don't think I want more balloon mollies...So now I don't know what to do. I really want to upgrade the tank to something like a 76 or 114 litres (20-30 us gallons), but I don't know if I can right now..because we are moving, but don't know exactly when yet...I might be able to but I'd have to talk to my mom...

So now what do you think I should do with my 38 litre/10 US gallon tank? With 1 balloon molly, 4 pygmy cories, 4 amano shrimp, 1 assassin...I obviously need more fish in it...Should I do a betta and add a few tetras, maybe harlequin rasboras? Could it get along with the balloon molly? Or should I get something else instead and keep the balloon molly? Or should I wait until the balloon molly dies (however long that is) until I do something else?

Please let me know what you think...I really am discouraged with this tank right now as it's so EMPTY And it's like the balloon molly keeps trying to swim with the cories because she has no one else...She keeps hovering at the bottom following them around

And here are a few pictures of the balloon molly for size and color referance (and my hand is really tiny if that helps with size referance..)

And the tank..

Thank you all!
Meg

 

[Meggie :)]

Bump! Anybody?

 

[thereverendturtle]

I would recommend returning the Molly to a pet store. Then from there I would personally add a group of one of the smaller tetras, embers, neons or harlequin rasboras. 8-10 should do well. I wouldn't add a Betta, maybe a single honey gourami or if you can find them a trio of clown/rocket killies. Your tank set up looks very nice and I can see why you want more color and activity to go with it.