29 gallon stocking questions

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Hello,
I just finished cycling my 29gal tank and I was hoping to put some fish and live plants in it soon. I have an idea of what to stock it with but, I'm not sure.

My idea was three Mollies(2 female, 1 male) and three guppies(2 female, 1 male) plus some red cherry or ghost shrimp. I'm just worried that the Mollies might bully the guppies or vise-versa. I'm absolutely set on Mollies but would Platties or swordtails be better than Gupies?

Any suggestions about stocking would be greatly appreciated.
 
Mollies will eat the guppy fry, and cherry shrimp, and crossbreed with platies or swords. Not a great combination. I'd recommend something other than another livebearer to go with the mollies. The ghost shrimp will survive, so long as they're big enough. The mollies might pester them though, so be sure to provide lots of hiding places.
 
I'll probably get Ghost shrimp then, I have a few(small and large) in my 20 gallon and the Mollies just ignore them. I'm not worried about the Mollies eating any fry as I've got quite a bit of live and fake plants and I don't really care if they get eaten or not(I'm sure a few will survive), the only thing I'm worried about is if the fish will be aggressive towards each other.
 
I've not had mollies in with anything other than crayfish, so can't really say if they'll go after the guppies. The male I had was very aggressive and herded all the other fish around, but it was a 55 so there was always places the others could hide to avoid him. Smaller, slower fish would have been in trouble with him,
 
I'm thinking of getting some Platies(I love the blue mm ones) and maybe some snails. Would the Platies be fine with the Mollies. And if I decided to get a sailfin molly would it be aggressive with fish that have more flowing fins?
 
I would get the platies and dump the mollies.
 
Male mollies can be pretty aggressive to just about anything. I'd either just stick with the mollies or do as tanker suggested and switch to platies. Male mollies are much more aggressive spawners than other live bearers and tend to kill female platies and guppies from stressing them out. They'll move other fish from their territory quite vigorously. Platies are much more docile.
 
What ever livebearer you keep, I'd keep them the same sex to avoid breeding in a 29g.
 
I might move my Mollies from their 20 gal to the 29 gallon soon since one is pregnant and put some platties in the 20 gal :)
 
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