All those babies keep you on your toes, DeerFarmer! I'm pretty sure all of our pets have been spoiled into ruination. Well, not the fish, it's hard to spoil a fish without sending them belly up. (Or leaving them in the fridge too long, but that's a different matter!) Mollies and Platys are great, easy going fish and there is so much variation. I always had trouble with Mollies and ick, but that never stopped me from loving them!
How big is your Gar and what do you feed him?
Since you have a Gar it might be useful for you to travel to my neck of the woods -- the local feed store is currently running a dollar per gallon fish tank sale. Of course, other places do the same, like 'That Fish Place' in Northern PA somewhere.
I can't take advantage of those sales, no matter how badly I want to; I have so many tanks in storage right now (we can't set up anymore without reinforcing the floor in this old house) that if I brought more home, I believe DH would beat me with a wet noodle!