Removing Male Molly

Question
I have a 30 gal cycled Molly tank. I had started off with 3 females and 1 male. It appears that two of my females have started to breed, thankfully their batches of fry have not been terribly large as of yet. However, I have somewhere between 8 - 12 fry of different ages (having problems trying to count them all).

If all of these fry survive into adulthood this would overly populate my fish tank going by the 1 inch of fish per 3 gallons rule of thumb.

The fry are still to young for me to be able to tell if any of them are males. But I had a thought that if I remove the one adult male I have now, that will stop future batches (although I know I can get a few more batches for up to several months after he'd be removed.) However, I'm hesitant to remove him. I understand that these fish are community fish. So I'm sort of afraid to remove him from the community of girls for his general health and well being.

I could really use some suggestions as to what would be my best solution to this issue.

Answer
He would be fine on his own :)

The rule is 1 inch to a gallon so if mollies can grow up to 3 inches and you could have 15 fully grown molles, that would be 45 inches so you would be overstocked yes.

I would keep these fifteen and get rid of future batches by selling them to shops.

Do water changes of 40% and gravel vacuum every week and you will be fine :)


Good Luck    Jack