What to add with an aggressive molly

[wildroseofky]

I have a female dalmatian molly who is 4 inches long and a bully. She has killed her tank mate, a gold doubloon molly, by bullying her. I also suspect her in my khuli loach deaths. She kept trying to eat them. She would constantly try to bite them and chase them. I wasn't aware that she could kill them. She is afraid of the snails and leaves the shrimp alone. I also have one of her fry who is turning into a bully. It constantly harasses the only other fry that survived. They are all female. The fry are about an inch long now. I want to try with more fish but what should I add? I am beginning to think that she and her baby need to go to another tank. I thought about all male scissor tail guppies but I am worried about too many fry. The DM molly ate all the other fry. She is constantly hungry. I feed her twice a day and she bullies the other two fish and
doesn't want them to eat. She did the other adult fish the same way and it burst it's swim bladder. I have taken to adding sinking pellets for the small fish. Anything I could add that she wouldn't be able to bully to death?

 

[NYgiantsRP]

Sometimes you get a bad fish. If you get anything smaller then the Molly it will probably bother them. Maybe adding something larger. Maybe a couple Gouramis or angels. Festivum cichlids, or keyhole cichlids. Those are smaller cichlids that could stand up to the Molly. Bolivian rams, or larger cories could be alright too.

 

[wildroseofky]

Thanks for the info. I kinda of like cichlids and Bolivian rams but I am not sure if they would work in my tank. I have ghost shrimp and nerite snails. I have sand as a substrate, moss and plants. I will look into the care of these two types of fish. Would barbs work? I like the green barbs but was told once that they are aggressive. I may just move her to another tank and get her another molly as big as she is. I haven't seen much on if mollies are schooling fish or if they can be kept alone. Any ideas?

 

[NYgiantsRP]

Oh I didn't see the shrimp. They would be in danger with the gourami or cichlids. You could maybe try a large school of smaller tetras.