How much fry can a community tank "hold" bio-load/stocking wise

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Molly (in ten gallon, tankmates platies) had babies. mom ate some but not all, 10 are left and have been doing well in the ten gallon for three days now. Nobody is interested in eating them... I can't take them out and stick them on another tank because:
In another ten gallon (my fry tank) I have swordtail fry, almost 4 months old so about ready to move to someone who wants them, with the fry this tank is stocked to limit (8 fry. (1 male and 7 female, so I am thinking...fry soon...) and these all survived in a 55 gallon community tank, I took them out when they were three weeks old)).
In the 29 gallon I have 6 tri-color platy babies that survived (4 weeks old now). They survived by hiding...
The other 29 and the 55 are both fully stocked and I don't want to add any fry in those...

So, how much fry can I keep in the ten gallon and the 29 gallon bio-load wise? Could the molly babies stay in the ten gallon tank, till the swordtail have all been given away (which I guess will be in a few weeks)? Could I leave the platy fry in the 29 gallon for a few months?
I sort of don't know what to do, not sure why all this fry survives (it is cool, I know, and the babes are sooo cute...but what am I going to do with all these babies!)?

L.
 
The 10 molly fry and the 6 platy fry are not an overload in a 29. The size difference might be a problem depending on how fast your platies have been growing. If I understood right, that 29 would only have about 16 fry and nothing else in it. It should be good for at least a month until you can move the 8 swords out and make more room.
 
No, the 10 molly fry are in with one corry and three assorted platy and their mom molly. They are in a ten gallon

The 6 platy fry are in the 29 with a dwarf gourami, 2 cories, 4 flame tetras, 2 upside down cats. 2 hatchets and 3 grown up platies.

Yje swordtail fry is all in a ten gallon.
 
The bigger question is what will do the next time, and the time after this, and so on...
 
That's what gouramis and cichlids are for though. Keep that population in check. Although I will admit I saved the first batch of fry from my gold variatus, and I'm letting my Endler fry grow up.
 
Ok thanks. I will think about what to do next (previously the other tank inhabitants simply ate all the fry, this is a new situation), and so I'd really like an answer as to what I can do NOW.
L
 
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