Overstocked?

[geezer]

Hello all, for the first time I've seen one of my fish get aggresive. I'm not sure if it's because I'm overstocked.

I'm tempted to take my 2 new sailfin mollies back because it's turned a gold gourami and black sailfin molly evil! (they weren't previously)

My black sailfin (female) now pecks at the male sailfin's belly, and chases the new white one. the gold gourami picks on the new white female sailfin too


55 US gallons

4 sailfin mollies (black sailfin, gold sailfin, dalmation sailfin, pearl sailfin) = 3 female
3 clown loaches (2 are 5 inches, one tiny)
1 zebra loach
3 tetras (2 blackskirt, 1 white)
6 cories (3 albino, 3 sterbai)
2 platies (red coral, blue wagtail)
2 gouramis (golden and paradise)
4 siamese algae eaters

 

[Neal]

Your overstocked just with the loaches, they'l need a bigger tank as they grow, although I think you might be able to keep one of them.

Neal

 

[geezer]

thanks neal! i'm hoping to get a 90 gallon tank by the end of the summer, so that'll hold them for a few more years. when they get massive god knows what i'll do , might have to give them to the zoo if they get too massive

 

[jayjay]

neal you can't keep loaches on their own.

i would even up the numbers of what he's got to 5. it took mine years to get to 8inches so you've got plenty of time with a 90g