Is my 10 G overstock?

[G_Sharky]

Here's what i'm planning on the 10 G
2 clown loach
1 Dwarf Gourami
1 Angel
1 Krib
1 mango Plec

I know most of this fish would grow big but i'm only planning to used the 10 G as a temporary home for them until my main tank has properly finished it's cycle. So far i have the clown loach and the Gourami on the 10 G, but i was wondering if adding the rest would unstable the water parameters, BTW this tank has been running for awhile and it's cycled(I just check the parameters yesterday).

 

[Tempestuousfury]

The angel will get really big and aggressive. However, if you buy it when it's small and get the other tank set up, it shouldn't be a problem.

How big's this other tank? What fish will you put in it?

 

[G_Sharky]

I'll be buying a baby angel and krib and they're all going to my 33 galon as soon as it finish it's cycle, I'm using 6 blood fin tetras to cycle it, but i made the mistake of putting my 2 corys and plec after one week(which i thought it was cycled). The ammonia back then was 0 and nitrite was 0.1 but i recently had a nitrite spike so i guess it wasn't finished yet. I'm going to wait for a month before i transfer the fish in my 10 g to the main tank.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Ok. Do more water changes in both tanks. The nitrite spike isn't a good sign, especially since your corys and plec will add ammonia to it. The same goes for your 10 gallon.

 

[G_Sharky]

I just did a 25% water change on the 10 g 2 days ago and i think it's pretty much stable cause it's been running for about 2 months. I just notice that on my 33 g some bloodfin tetras have ich on them but not a lot, I really don't wanna medicate it since the tank is still cycling. So far the corys and the plec don't have it( they have been ich free ever since the beginning eveb when my 10 g was infested with ich). Would ICH dissappear once the fish's immune system gets stronger? I'm not going to use med until the tank cycles, what should I do?

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Raise the temperature to around 80. That way the parasites will die without the meds. I would tell you to add salt, but that's not good for the cories. Just keep a constant high temperature for a few weeks and the ich should go away.

Good thing about ich is that once it goes away, the fish have stronger defenses against it.

 

[Kyle]

That 10 gallon will be overstocked. Clown Loaches get huge.

 

[Fishy89]

i thought clown loaches stayed small

you should always have fish in a tank while you are cycling it. 2-4 of them.
cycling has to do with their waste

 

[Morrgan]

i thought clown loaches stayed small

They only stay small if the water in the tank is of such bad quality that it halts their growth, and that is not something to strive for.

In the wild they can grow to 12 inches, but in a tank 6-7 inches is about as big as they get. Because of this they need a big tank, something along the lines of 75g.