Tropical Marine Tank

[Darrell]

Hi, i think i saw on here a while ago, a website where you enter in the size of your tank to find out the maximum amount of fish that can go in that tank.

Is there any sites out there that can do this for tropical marine?

Thanks

 

[wrs]

http/www.danios.0catch.com/danio/Tankmaster.html

 

[Darrell]

10 inches of tropical marine fish

Thank you...

 

[OoHeatheroO]

10 inches of tropical marine fish

Thank you...

You do realize that there is a difference between Tropical fish and marine don't you? I seriously hope you do.

 

[Darrell]

Well yea,

Tropical Freshwater- rivers (S America etc)
Tropical Marine - sea (Caribbean etc)
Cold Water Freshwater - rivers (Europe etc)
Cold Water Marine - Sea (Wales etc)

The tank i am on about is 50gs

 

[FrAnK3333]

50 gallons is the tank size? You could put 20 inches of fish maybe, I would ask in the marine section of this forum. The difference he meant was that in tropical tanks you can stock a load of fish where as marine you have to stock much lighter.

 

[Darrell]

My bad

20 inches? Wow, even better

 

[FrAnK3333]

Thts overstocking tho, be careful!

 

[Mr Miagi]

Yeah, you dont just measure your fish either! lol. You have to know your fish and decide on compatability between species and whether thfish you choose is suitablke for the tank etc etc.

 

[Def]

Er, I really suggest you repost in the marine section. You are not going to get 20 inches of fish in a 36" tank.

 

[Darrell]

Well why was it suggested then?

 

[Def]

My bad. I'm wrong. You should fill it with 2 cowfish, a volitans lionfish, a foxface, one sohal tang and some damsels.

*edit* make that 2 sohals.

 

[Navarre]

OK ok lets try and get some reasonable ansers here

I dont use the inches per gallon rule as i feel its a waste of time. A 4 inch trigger creates about 3 times more biowaste material than a 4 inch blenny!

So from this observation alone you can quickly see that the inches per fish is not a good calculator.

In 30 gallons you need to look carefully at the types of fishes you can have and what impacton the water they will make. Thankfully a 30 gallon tank cannot hold large biowaste type fishes like tangs triggers etc so this helps narrow down the options in your favour.

I wold say that with careful planning, a very good quality liverock and dligent water management you could safely keep 15 fishsmall blennies, gobies, small wrasse, pygmy angel, a few chromis and perhaps a couple of firefish. before you know it the tank is up to 12 or 15 fish.

 

[canyoubelieveit]

I'm currently setting up a 45 gallon SW tank.

This is my fish wish list... this might even be too much:

2 Percula Clowns
1 Flame Angel
1 Royal Gramma
1 Wrasse (either Six-line or Red Head Solon Fairy)
1 Goby (not sure which one)

With this fish list I am very close to (might be already) maxing out.

5 more gallons will not provide you with much more room than this.

Keep your fish small and few... You'll have a happier, healthier tank!

 

[Great Lakes]

2 Percula Clowns
1 Flame Angel
1 Royal Gramma
1 Wrasse (either Six-line or Red Head Solon Fairy)
1 Goby (not sure which one)

That is a pretty good mix.

The Clowns will hang out together in one section of the tank, The Angel will roam at will, and the others will mostly hang out around and in the rock.

Make sure you stack your rock with plenty of gaps for the Wrasse and Gramma to swim through.

GL