have a thriving community fish tank

I have one great reef tank and another simple tank for an 12” Oscar and another tank with one seahorse and a couple watchman gobies. Maybe I should do more with the sea horse tank. Am now going to do a fish only marine tank with a snowflake eel.

Starting to seem like it would be more work than fun. On hold & moved lower on priority list. Maybe eventually?

I sing that song to my fish. They like it. I currently have two Dalmatian Lyertail Mollies in my 20-gallon tank, and they aren’t even full grown. Both of them moved back with me from Arizona. I had a third one, but unfortunately it didn’t make it. Two of them were pretty much still fry when I made the trip back. I did have several black mollies, a few more Dalmatians, a Yoyo Loach, and a catfish of some kind, but there was no way I’d be able to bring all of them back with me. Those I gave away, and just kept my three smallest fish in hopes that they’d make the three-day car ride okay. They came home in a plastic container that used to hold Tootsie Rolls.

My tank is housing quite a bit of algae, which is fine for now, since the mollies eat it, but it doesn’t really help the aesthetics. I can’t wait till I get a job so I can afford to clean it up again. Run all those tests I’m supposed to run on the water. Think about actually getting live plants, and more so now since the plastic ones, which did look nice, are now covered with algae.

And this time around I actually want to have some sort of a community going, instead of all mollies and some bottom feeders. I hope my mollies don’t get any ideas and start populating the tank before I have a chance. Course I have a whole new group of people to try and pass off my excess fish to now. That or I donate them to the pet store as well. Bad thing is there isn’t a whole lot of selection around here.

I’m thinking of going with something like Zebra Danios, in addition to my mollies, and then some sort of Cory. Of course both of those need to be in groups, about 5 for the Danios, and 3 for the Corys. So with only a 20-gallon take that might be as extensive as my community gets. I’ve looked into tetras, but they are schooling, so I run into the same problem. Maybe I’ll sneak in some platys anyway for color, and just see how it goes.