Who should I move to my 10 gallon tank?

[Dirwin86]

Hello, newbie here. Sorry for the looooong post...

I'm looking for suggestions on which of my fish I should move to my 10g tank for now. I'll list out my tank specs, who's in them and what I'm hoping to accomplish.

Tank 1
20g long, aquaclear 30 filter, heated to 78-80, 60 gal adjustable air pump split with tank #2. 25% planted including floating hornwort, bamboo, java moss and several other types of live and fake plants and decor.

Fish
5 adult half black fancy guppies, 1 male 4 female (I have another male but he's been separated to heal)
6 adult panda platies, 1 male 5 female

15-8 1-5wk old panda fry
30-40 1wk old guppy fry

3 ghost shrimp

Tank 2
20g long, aquaclear 30 filter, heated to 78-80, 60 gal adjustable air pump split with tank #1. 15% planted including floating and planted hornwort, java fern and other live and fake plants and decor.

Fish
1 male veiltail betta (very mellow dude)
1 adult half black fancy male guppie (healing, fought other male guppy a lot)
6 adult neon tetra sexs unknown
8 adult yellow tiger endlers 4 male 4 female

5-6 endler fry 1-5wk old
3-5 panda fry (momma had been separated to heal, shes back in tank #1 now)

4 ghost shrimp

Water changes/tank cleanings happen every Wednesday and Saturday, 25% water changes, more if needed.

So here's the story. I started out with the betta, then the platies in a 10g tank about 4-5 months ago, my first aquarium. My husband got the tetras a couple weeks later and I needed more space so a buddy of ours sold me his 2 20g set ups. He then purchased the fancy show guppies for me to breed About 2 months ago. I then found the yellow tiger endlers at my local co-op.

So I'm not a huge fan of the tetras, or guppies. I have to keep the guppies for a while. my friend spent a lot of money on them but I can sell/trade my local co-op for them so I dont mind keeping them for now. But ****, they just started having their first batches of fry and good god there's a lot of them! I originally planned to breed in the community tank and let it be survival of the fittest for now to keep the numbers down but i didnt expect to have as many guppies survive right off the bat. My endlers don't have nearly as many survivors but my guess was the betta is eating them?

Anyways, I realize I'm overstocked (part of the reason I change the water so often) so I started cycling the old 10g so I can move a few fish to lighten the stress load on the fish and filters. (my goal is to upgrade to a 55+g tank and keep the 20g tanks going for fry in 6 months to a year)

My local co-op has agreed to buy most of my fish when they get to a half inch long. I'm most interested in breeding the platies, endlers and guppies.

With all that said, who would you move to the 10g tank for now?

A few options I've come up with are:
-Move the fry
-Move the betta and tetras to the 10g for my son's room (they're his favorite) and move half the platies in with endlers
-Sell/trade/give away the tetras for the tank space
-put excess guppy fry and betta in the 10g so the betta can eat them
-use the 10g as a hospital tank

What else might be suggested? Remember I'm new, any suggestions or info would be greatly apprectiated! Thanks so much!

 

[emilygupps]

I'm also new, but I wanted to reply to bump your question so the experts might see and help you out.

I too have a tank full of fry and plan to do survival of the fittest. Mostly because I don't have room for 40 long fin danios. If I thought I could catch my ghost shrimp fry I would remove them because let's face it, I need more scavengers.

I vote you move the beta in to the ten gal for some peace for him and feed him the guppy fry, what ever lives you keep/trade (am I horrible for saying that). But I'm not sure how much that will help your tank problems. Maybe an other 5-10 gal tank? For your sons room with the tetras an some shrimp and a snail? Assuming you have the room.

 

[Laser]

I say to move the betta to the 10g. They really appreciate being alone from what I have seen. I actually have split my 10g in half to keep 2 bettas.