Nitrite? Are you sure it's nitrites that are high? Because that's toxic. If the tank has been cycled, your nitrites should always be 0. If it's nitrates that are high, depending on *how* high, it's less of an issue.
Advice on which of my fish would be suitable/not-suitable to salt
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Nice catch authmal! I completely missed that part about "high nitrites." To the op, do you have exact numbers for the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate levels? What type of test did you use? That seems strange to me though that if the nitrite levels were high, therefore the tank is uncycled, that the other fish besides the molly are unaffected and acting normal. Especially the neon tetra since they are typically more sensitive...
Oh, and for the record, a rainbow shark really should be in a four foot tank; they're *highly* active.
Dwarf puffers are pretty nasty to fish with long fins, like angel fish and guppies, and are typically best kept in species only tanks, plus, they're pretty messy and need a lot of filtration relative to their size. They also *need* live snails in their diet, to care for their dentition.
If you don't have a sexually homogenized group of guppies or mollies, you're going to potentially have a population issue.
White clouds are schoolers (better activity/behavior in groups of 6+) *and* cooler water fish, as in their upper temperature tolerance is the lower temperature tolerance for the other fish, so you're shortening the lifespan and lessening the comfort of some or most of your fish.
Angelfish, being cichlids, are somewhat unpredictable, but they have this tendency to eat things that can fit in their mouths. That's going to include the dwarf puffer, white clouds, neons, and the like. This risk can be somewhat minimized by getting a small angel, and letting it grow up with potential prey, but that's not a guarantee of safety for the smaller fish.
And, as Dani has pointed out, you need to determine the type of pleco you have. Commons can get as long as 24 inches, and tend to get more and more carnivorous as they age.
Dwarf puffers are pretty nasty to fish with long fins, like angel fish and guppies, and are typically best kept in species only tanks, plus, they're pretty messy and need a lot of filtration relative to their size. They also *need* live snails in their diet, to care for their dentition.
If you don't have a sexually homogenized group of guppies or mollies, you're going to potentially have a population issue.
White clouds are schoolers (better activity/behavior in groups of 6+) *and* cooler water fish, as in their upper temperature tolerance is the lower temperature tolerance for the other fish, so you're shortening the lifespan and lessening the comfort of some or most of your fish.
Angelfish, being cichlids, are somewhat unpredictable, but they have this tendency to eat things that can fit in their mouths. That's going to include the dwarf puffer, white clouds, neons, and the like. This risk can be somewhat minimized by getting a small angel, and letting it grow up with potential prey, but that's not a guarantee of safety for the smaller fish.
And, as Dani has pointed out, you need to determine the type of pleco you have. Commons can get as long as 24 inches, and tend to get more and more carnivorous as they age.
