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Hello again!

Got a new dilemna on my hands here. Recently the tanks seem to be rolling in (now if a 130 gal tank would roll in i would be in heaven

Anyway, I now have an extra 10 gal and 15 gallon tank. I am thinking of moving some of my fish to other tanks to change up my larger 55 gallon tank and would like some advice on who to move where etc. One of the goals would be to later obtain a dwarf puffer fish and possibly something along the lines of a red tipped shark or bala shark for the main tank. My wife and I love the way these guys swim, so graceful etc. and not to mention the shark look is very eye catching but we are wary of their aggressiveness as well. And puffers well, puffers are their own form of entertainment.

So here are my tanks and members currently: (I leave out our bettas because they have their own environments)

1x 5 Gallon w/ heater, airstone and whisper filter
3x Female Fancy guppies
1x male fancy guppies (soon to be 400 i am sure)


1x 5 Gallon w/ airstone and whisper filter
3x goldfish
1x African Dwarf Frog
1x Pleco

The goldfish will be going into a pond come the end of October when i move into the new house.

1x 10 Gallon - no accessories currently other than lighted hood
empty

1x 15 gallon - no accessories currently other than lighted hood
empty

1x 55 gallon - heater, 2 airstones, 30-60 filter, power head diffuser

1x Male Mollie
5x Female Mollies
1x Male Neon Swordtail
2x Female Pineapple Swordtails
1x Ghost Catfish
1x Pleco
1x Angelfish
4x Gouramis (all dwarfs blue, fire, gold, tiger stripe)
6x Tetras (3 strawberry, 3 blueberry)

I also have about 20 1.5 day old swordtail fry currently in a little goldfish bowl with an air tube on the hood of the main tank to regulate temperature in the interim - most of these will be given out and only a few kept - moving them into a breeder cube in main tank on friday)

my initial thoughts are to move the mollies to their own tank (15) and the swordtails to their own tank (10). That would leave me with 13 fish in the 55. Then get 2 more ghost catfish for the main tank and then not sure but would like a bala or something similar maybe a puffer. Let me know what you all think and where you would put what and why. Thanks for any suggestions.

Ok with the little sleep i've had, here are a couple of quick thoughts:
Glad the goldies will be going into the pond at the end of oct. until then move them to the largest empty tank
Pleco may be small now, but he too will need a much larger environment
The guppies can join everyone else in the 55 and since there is an angel in there, he will provide fry control...if anything definately move them to another tank soon as well...because as you guessed the 3F and 1M will soon become over 100+ and then the fun really begins...

I know I now have guppies in the original 29, then they moved to the 20, and now uh I have a few refugees that uh kind of escaped to the 125And uh the fun just continues...

Good luck, moving things around always creates some new adventures in life

heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle