booginish
Aquarium Advice Activist
hi i have a 55g tank with 3 adfs, 3 balloon mollies,6 zebra danios, 5 black skirt tetras,1 honey dew gourami, 2 albino corys, and 3 swordtail platys. i had to recently youthanize 1 of my 2 swordtail platys because of prolonged illness. i noticed the other day that the one that was left looked lonely, so i decided to go out and buy a few more, so went out to my lfs, and they told me they were sold out of the swordtails i got last time, so i asked what would be as good, they sold me 2 velvet red swordtails, they look very similar, the velvets look a bit bigger. I got home put them in the tank(the skirt tetras messed with them for a while until they were bored of them), but i noticed that the other swordtail( he's orange on the tail, a bit of black and white on the belly and silver on back, i dont know exact name of specie) was scared to go near them, for now at least. i wanna know if they count as the same specie, are they gonna keep eachother company, relieve stress on the one that recently lost his friend?