Stocking 15 Gallon Advice, Please Help

[Boilerwxman]

Hello everyone I have my 15 gallon column tank cycled and have 3 mollies in it. (We got these from our neighbors who had fry they wanted to give away)

Dimensions of the tank is 13.8 x 13.6 x 24.8 (all inches) I have 2 HOB filters on for 30 gallon and one for 15 gallon.

We would really like to get some more fish but I curious if we can or should? My wife wants some more and so do my kids...

What recommendations would some of you have?

 

[phoenixkiller]

Hello everyone I have my 15 gallon column tank cycled and have 3 mollies in it. (We got these from our neighbors who had fry they wanted to give away)

Dimensions of the tank is 13.8 x 13.6 x 24.8 (all inches) I have 2 HOB filters on for 30 gallon and one for 15 gallon.

We would really like to get some more fish but I curious if we can or should? My wife wants some more and so do my kids...

What recommendations would some of you have?

Mollies have a very large bio-load for their size, and keeping them in any tank smaller than 20 gallons is not recommended. It's your call, but I like to give my fish some elbow room if you know what I mean.

How long has the tank been set up? How many years experience do you have in this hobby? If you've been doing this for a while I would say otocinclus catfish, small school of Neon Tetras, maybe a few Zebra Danios/GloFish (registered trademark) or other nano fish. Your mollies, should you keep them, would not allow too many other fish to go with it.

 

[Boilerwxman]

I'm new but I'm all about research, I fishless cycled this tank for a month. I understand doing weekly PWC, frequently testing the water with my API test kit. Sadly, I didn't know what kind of fish we had when I got the 15 gallon tank then slowly learned as they grew we had mollies from the neighbors.