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boog3ee

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Greetings all!

So, I tried my hand with discus, and found that they were more than i can handle with new problems every day and the fact that where I live i guess its almost impossible to get good quality discus, so i took the 6 adults that i had back to the LFS and he agreed to take them and give me my moneys worth back in whatever i would like from his shop.
So my tank is now ready for a real community, its a 310 liters planted aquarium, so what do you think of this group:
10 gold (white) gouramis (juvies)
2 scalar angelfish (juvies)
40 cardinal tetras
30 rummy nose tetras
10 red platies
6 Siamese algae eaters
20 panda cories
and some cherry shrimp

Would I be over stocking? if yes then what do you suggest?
 
I suggest this equation we have all heard the one inch of fish per gallon of water rule and the one inch of fish per two gallon rule with goldfish which is an ok assumption however i have an awesome actual scientfic rule of for every inch of fish you need 139in3 which means if you figure out how many gallons is in one cubic inch ( which is 231 btw :)) times that by how many gallons you have so 80 i guess and then 80x231 is 18480 so divide that by the 139 is about 132 inches of fish so given your request of say 40 cardinal tetras wich all get say 1.5 inches lets say okay so thats 60 inches right there then the pandas lets say 2 inches for 20 of them so 40 we already have 100 inches of fish with lots of fish still that you want so i would say get less of all of them and that should be fine just figure out the rest. :)
 
how planted is the tank?

the only small thing i pick up on is the number of Gouarmi (they get aggressive) and the SAE be absolutely certain they are SAEs
 
here is how planted the tank is:

tank.jpg

The bushy plant on the left was replaced by some java ferns...

As for the gouramis, which are actually the only fish already in the tank for now, i am almost 100% sure that they are 9 females and only one male, and the tank is planted enough for him to choose a territory without bothering the rest of the fish, i hope! That said though i might decide to transfer some of them to my other tank which has 12 tiger barbs, since from what im told the barbs become more tolerant when they are that many.
I will make sure the SAE will be the real ones, the LFS's shipment arrives today and i will check for sure before i buy anything, he assures me that he will have both flying foxes and real SAE in the shipment, shouldnt be too hard to distinguish...
 
heres a slightly larger photo, sorry, still getting used to the resizing process...
tank 2.jpg
 

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