Overstocked Time To Upgrade

[robertherrington]

To Start I Have A 5G Hex Which Had 3 Mollies, 3 Platies, 1 Betta, 1 Pleco. Way Overstocked I Know. While Since I Have Set Up A 10G And Found Little Floating White Particles In It Even Though I Cleaned It Several Times. Last Week I Transfered My Dalmation Molly To The 10G As An Experiment. Today I Found My 2nd Dead Fish In The 5 Gallon First My Black Molly Then My Silver Molly. Im Sure This Was Also Due To Overstocking (Any Comments There Was A Lot Of Waste Even Though I Did A Lot Of Water Changes) . Tomorrow I Should Be Receiving The First Of 2, 12 Gallon "Nano Cubes" I Ordered Which I Will Setup Right Away. I Now Transplanted All My Fish Into The 10g In Fear They Might Die If Left In The 5G For One More Day. I Now Have 2 Mollies, And 2 Platies Plus The Betta. I Hope I Don't Lose Anymore If Anybody Has Any Comments I'd Like To Hear Them. I'll Be Posting Some More Pics Of My Nano Cube Tomorrow After I Get It Planted Any Suggestions As To Plants?




Current 10G Tank

Old 5G Hex

Ill Post Some Pics Of The Nano Cube Tomorrow. Any Suggestions On Plants Appreciated Thanks.

 

[robertherrington]

Great Now My Dalmation Molly Seems To Bully All The Other Fish He Went Up And Latched On To My Female Platys Anal Fin And Didnt Want To Let Go Im At The Point Of Chopping His Head Off If I Cant Solve This Problem I Just Put Him Back In The Old 5G Hex Until I Figure Out What To Do

 

[tamara]

For one, normally betta's aren't good for community fish, some cases they're fine, so just make sure to keep an eye on him, maybe put him in the 5gallon alone?He would be very happy with all that space, as well, maybe get a a few more females in the tank, instead of having most likely 2 or 3 males with only 1 or 2 females. [I used to have the same problem, but now i've made it so in one tank it's 5 females and one male--to keep producing, and the other is all males].
Good Luck and hopefully this information was useful?