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will i be able to get a pair of angelfish M and F with 8 mollies and 5 cories?

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That depends solely on the size of your tank.

Tank size please & you'll get the answer you need.




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i have a 29 gallon tank

pH: 7.2
Ammonia: .025 ppm
Nitrites: .8 (first cycle just a heads up)
Temp: 80*F

Might be a little squeezy to do that.. mollies like room to swim and with 8 of them in a 29, i wouldnt bother adding angels.. make for unhappy fish.

72 gallon bowfront:Tanganyikan Lake set up
75 gallon: A. Baenschi trio,Cyanotilapia Afra Cobwe(4), copadichromis trewavase, protomelas sp. tangerine tiger(breeding pair)

Molies/cories/angelfish would work, but those numbers are alittle high. First of all, you have to decide what you like better, mollies or angels. You can have more mollies if you get rid of one of you angels. Or, you could keep both angels and get rid of some of the mollies. Corries are fine, but, in either case, I would bring the number up to 6 or 7.

Here are two possible tanks:

Tank A
2 angels
3 mollies
6 coirries

Tank B
1 angel
5 mollies
7 corries

Since you are getting a pair of angels, it looks like you are breeding. In that case, it would be nice to have a trio of mollies (1 m 2 f). There would be lots of little mollies swimming around (Mollies are livebearers, so your gona have lots of fry). That would make a nice snack for the angels, and a few of the babies might survive, building your tank up naturally. There is no problem with corries, they are fun, active, and will do a good job cleaning up.

If you only want one angel, you can have more mollies. In this case, I would do all male and all female. There will be less predators and you don't want too many fry around. You could wind up with ALOT of mollies in a short amount of time.

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Ok here are the new specs on my tank

pH: 7.53
Ammonia: 0
NitrItes: 1
NitrAtes: no test
water hardness: what that? tell me please

so will a male and female angelfish go peacefully with 1M lyretail molly, 1F lyretail molly, 5 fry(which i plan on feeding them ot the angels), 5 bronze cories, and 4 ghost shrimp?

Well that sounds OK. Dont the livebearers prefer salt? I know the cories DONT. The ghost shrimp would become lunch for the angels. How about 2 Angels bump the school of cories to 6/7 and maybe replace the mollies with cherry barbs or something a bit smaller than mollies. Although the mollies may do OK in there. Just a thought.

Mollies do prefer brackish water, but they can live in freshwater too. That's the only livebearer that prefers any salt. Also, Angels do need a tank that is at least 18 inches tall.

these are the dimensions for my tank

Hieght: 18"
Length: 32"
Width: 12"

new water params

pH: 7.4
Ammonia: 0(yay!)
NitrItes: still high
NitrAtes: no test gonna find out saturday
Hardness: gonna find out saturday