How Many Fish In A 95Ltr

[glyndawn]

i was wonder how many fish i can put in a 95ltr tank

i have 7 male guppies at mo but want to put some neon tettas in as well how many of these can go in there

 

[355858]

use the calculator at the top or as suggested by most on here 1inch fish to 1 US Gallon of water, i think thats right anyway

Ben

 

[Alind]

I am not expert but think,
10-12 fishes will be alright with your tank.

 

[Wills]

The number of fish depends on tons and tons of factors. You need to learn about the fish you want to keep and also those you already keep. Learn their max size and also their temperament. As said the inch per gallon rule is a good thing to follow but it is very bendy and can become unreliable for example no one knows which fish the inch per gallon rule is based on is it based on an inch of neon tetra or an inch of a pleco? An inch of pleco will contain much more poo than an inch of tetra. So all this needs to be bore in mind in the stocking of your tank.

Now to your tank 95 liters means (roughly) you sit around 20 gallons, so on face value that is 20 inches of fish for you to stock with. First of all though how old is your tank and what filter is is again which filter you have depends on how much you can stock, now this gets mixed up sometimes for example a big filter does not mean more big fish but perhaps a few more smaller fish.

A tip for you would be to say go for cardinals rather than neons as many neons are bred for quantity not quality and so a lot of weak fish come into the hobby were as cardinals which are pretty identical just bigger and in a 20g you can handle them. So on this basis you could perhaps (as long as your filter is good enough) do something like:

6 Male Guppies
10 Cardinal Tetras

and then still have room to add a a few more fish

Hope thats helped a bit and always I cant emphasize enough how important research is in this hobby you will save hours of time and money through it

Wills

 

[OldMan47]

As long as you have the right kind of water for the neons, you could probably get anywhere from 6 to 10 of them and be fine.
Wills, the inch per gallon guidance was first used when the only kinds of fish in shops were things like guppies, platies, mollies, neons, zebras and similar small fish. It works fairly well for them but not for large fish. It is a very conservative stocking level for tiny fish like neons and Heterandria formosa but still works OK for something the size of a swordtail. Anything bigger than a molly or swordtail means rethinking how many will really work well.

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, agree with Wills and OM47 above. The rough inch per US gallon of fish body (fins don't count) calculated using the maximum size each fish can get to is still excellent guidance for all beginners in the first year or two to help get a feel of what a successful tank can be like. Wills is right, the overall stocking level starts to seem almost a minor complication compared to the shoaling rules for individual species and the aggression checks on cross-species, all of which get into the mix along with overall stocking level when you are drafting a stocking plan.

~~waterdrop~~
ps. Wills, I disagree with you about neons vs cardinals. I used to think of neons as more fragile than cards but I no longer do. They need pretty soft acid water ideally and the tank needs to wait 6 months from new at least before they are introduced but I now feel they are about equal in care and lifetime and each has a different look to enjoy. I find I rather like the additional flash of silver carried by neons.