How Overstocked Are You?

[jrussuk]

Hi, i,m bored at work so i thought i'd open a can of worms and find out who is overstocked and by how much!!!!
I have a 18g tank with 4 platys, 3 dwarf neon rainboew fish, 3 lambchop rasboras 2 harliquin rasboras and 2 guppies which i belive makes me overstocked. I was hoping to get some small corys (panda) untill i adopted the 2 guppies!

so whos gonna be the 1st and tell me there stocking

 

[Yazan]

not over stocked of course

 

[kewskills]

im not overstocked, have been once quite recently after a molly baby explosion, but lucky enough to have the money t but another tank house them

 

[Yazan]

I use to be overstocked but forgot with what

 

[andywg]

Define overstocked.

By 1" per gallon I am overstocked, but I hold no regard for that guide so do not consider myself overstocked. Last time I checked my large tank was a little over 2" per gallon IIRC, maybe 2.5" per gallon.

 

[jrussuk]

I was going by the 1 inch per gallon rule

 

[Fishy_7]

I was going by the 1 inch per gallon rule

Overstocked by that rule! My stocking levels is more 2"/gal.
Having said that, there are 2 canisters running, so more than enough filtration to cope with the added bio load.

 

[jrussuk]

Talking of bio load i never relised that platys are poop machines!!!!! it seems thats all they do when im looking at them!!

 

[DiscusAngel]

im a wee overstocked with 8 discus i a 75g, but condiering ther only 4-5-6" atm, and will only get to around 8" theres room. its just the reccomened room for discus is 10g per discus.. but i say its 8. lol

 

[lilfishie]

Overstocked, i havea 15 gal which contains 4 female bettas, 4 female guppies, 5 neon tetras and 1 Amano shrimp, never had a problem as long as i don't get lazy and forget water changes

 

[Kevstir]

if going by the 1" per gallon rule im overstocked.

if i add up the adult size of all my fish im on 80" in a 47 us gallon tank (1.7" per gallon) , to me i think the amount of fish in my tank looks right, not overcrowded and not to sparse , now i have a eheim 2026 that can filter a tank up to 77 gallons so it can cope no probs ..

im with andywg on the rule as well, if i was to stick to 47" of small fish (thats what i mostly have) it would lok rather empty'ish

Kev

 

[OohFeeshy]

Yawn. Overstocking is a very personal term.

 

[dc3]

im a wee overstocked with 8 discus i a 75g, but condiering ther only 4-5-6" atm, and will only get to around 8" theres room. its just the reccomened room for discus is 10g per discus.. but i say its 8. lol

8 Disci (what's the plural of discus) in a 75g is overstocked? I have 7 in there right now and want to add in 3 more... Then again these are juvie fish - the largest 4 are in separate tanks fluttering their fins

PS - I'm running 2 canister filters, 2 sponges a biowheel and do daily water-changes - haven't noticed any ammonia / nitrites

 

[dwarfgourami]

I will be if I don't start selling bristlies soon. Actually, going not by inch rules but by crap potential, the 70 ltrs is overstocked (mrs Bristlie, we're talking about you!!!), but I do have double filtration and do double water changes, and moving mrs Bristlie back in with mr Bristlie would result in other overstocking problems of a different kind..... Eventually, I will also have to start spreading the neoheterandrias out into other tanks, if they carry on reproducing like they are.

 

[geo7x]

going by 1" per gallon all my stocked tanks apart from one are "overstocked" as personally i dont go by 1" per gallon, i dont really go by any inches per gallon, but i guess on average you could say mine are about 1.5" per gallon. The snakehead tank is actually understocked going by 1" per gallon but thats because of limitations to tankmates. I am currently setting up a 3ft and that will actually be about 2" per gallon (going by the maximum size of the fish) in all honesty, but i am having heavy filtration.