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I have just been watching my 150g tank with six white clouds in it, tomorrow there will be 10 Black phantoms and three whiptails added to it. The tank will look crowded.
Remember that stocking a tank is not always about how many fish you can put in a tank, but more about how the tank feels with the fish you have in it.

 

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I can't see it looking crowded with 10 black phantoms and 6 white clouds in. The whiptails won't even be seen.

 

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Colin_T said:

I can't see it looking crowded with 10 black phantoms and 6 white clouds in. The whiptails won't even be seen.

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the tank is 6x2x2ft isn't it?
10 black phantoms will sit in a corner and you won't see them through the plants.

 

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the tank is 6x2x2ft isn't it?
10 black phantoms will sit in a corner and you won't see them through the plants.

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My little guys are going to swim all over the tank, have babies and the babies are going to grow up and be happy swimming with Mum and Dad.

 

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You can see how crowded the tank is by this photo.

 

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You have a shed more experience than me - but to "my eyes" it looks far from crowded.

 

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@itiwhetu - we share a philosophy. I like to have look to find my fish. When i watch a stream in summer, it takes a second to spot the fish, and I like my tanks to be like that.
I'm planning several tanks in the 3 foot, 1 metre range that will be heavily planted with 3 pairs of killies in them, all one species, and that's that. My 6 foot/2m tank will have at most 10 2 to cm fish. Then, over a year or two, I'll watch the population climb, and see how the dynamics between the fish change and evolve.
Crowded tanks are like super extroverted drunks.

 

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Tank looks very interesting, I wish I could keep an open top tank but it is too humid here in the winter. I like low stocked tanks.