Is My Tank Now Overstocked?

[mrshunt90]

I have 60L tank
2 female guppies
2 female plattys
1 male platty
4 glass fish
2 peppered corys

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Overstocked and poorly stocked IMO.

Platties in what I presume is a 2-foot tank, could bring out their aggressive side and lead to major Guppy tail nipping.

Do you mean Glassfish (like Chanda ranga) or Glass Catfish (like K. minor)? Both are schooling fish, Glass Catfish are known to pine away and starve to death in numbers <10 (which you cannot do in a 60l).

Very few Corydoras are suitable long term in a 60l, chunky Peppered are definitely not and they are sub-tropical catfish that should be kept at 15-20C for most of the year. Corydoras hastatus, habrosus, pygmeus and panda are the only suitable alternatives, but like all corydoras they should be in at least 6+ groups (or ideally 10 or more, they school in the 100s/1000s in the wild).

I have a 54l (60x30x30cm) which contains 7 Persian Killifish, that are almost fully grown at ~4cm TL (including tail).

 

[mrshunt90]

I have glass fish, not glass catfish. The plattys seem to get on fine with the guppys at the moment and have done for 6weeks

oh and im not sure specifically what corydoras I have all I know is they are peppered and grow to 4cm

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Peppered grow to a chunk 7cm, 4cm is more in line with the panda I mentioned.

Which Glassfish species do you have, perhaps Filament or Indian?

 

[mrshunt90]

Im really not sure about the glassfish. Ive just looked on my paper and they do grow to 7cm x

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

7cm could be Indian Glassfish, Chanda ranga, a good choice for fishkeepers in harder water areas looking for a schooling midwater fish... A tad cheaper than I paid for my Humphead Glassfish too (my female is ~7cm, my last males reached ~9cm before being killed by my Lionhead Cichlid parents last November).

 

[Sailfin Zach]

I have 60L tank
2 female guppies
2 female plattys
1 male platty
4 glass fish
2 peppered corys

Yes because livebeares are bosterous fish and its overstocked i have glass cats and if i where you i would get rid of the glass cats

 

[mrshunt90]

I dont have glass CATfish, I have glass fish

 

[Sailfin Zach]

oh

 

[OldMan47]

You are doing fine mrshunt. Your stock level is a bit challenging but you can overcome that with frequent large water changes.

 

[Aqua Tom]

You are doing fine mrshunt. Your stock level is a bit challenging but you can overcome that with frequent large water changes.

Perfect advice as usual from OM47. I am overstocked & underfiltered but do frequent LARGE water changes & this seems to work well.

Tom

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

You are doing fine mrshunt. Your stock level is a bit challenging but you can overcome that with frequent large water changes.

Perfect advice as usual from OM47. I am overstocked & underfiltered but do frequent LARGE water changes & this seems to work well.

Tom

Perhaps either of you could elaborate on your frequent large water change suggestion for mrshunt's benefit?

The equivalent of weekly 100% water changes, spread out over each 7 day period?

I have a massively overstocked Steatocranus casuarius nursery ~75l tank on the go, containing 44 teenagers that I am growing on to ~5cm for a LFS, who will give me credit for them. I am changing 50-75% of their water daily, because I am feeding them a high protein diet (so they will grow rapidly), otherwise the nitrate levels would quickly be off the scale and above the toxic 300mg/l level. Most typical aquarists would not want to be doing that much daily maintenance, I'd guestimate that most barely find the time to do 33-50% water changes once per week.

 

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