Am I Overstocked Or Not?

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Ok due to illnesses in the two tanks ive had to move all my corys into the same tank, and am wondering if im overstocked in there now :/

Its a juwel rio 180, with 5 adult bronze corys, 4 pygmy corys, 6 juvenile leopard corys, 6 young juvenile panda corys, 1 adult platy, 1 adult male molly, 1 young adult female molly, 1 young CAE, 4 zebra nerites and about 6-8 molly/platy fry. Its planted with a fluval 3 and a juwel standard filter running.

I also have an 80l tank with only 10 neon tetras and an adult female molly in it.

The fish are not meant to be in the tanks like that but due to meds/salt at the moment they are.

So....what do you think, and what do you recommend once meds have stopped? Thanks :D
 
The CAE will outgrow the tank and might well attack some of your fish as it matures. They can reach 10-11 inches.

The tank will be pushed a bit stocking wise if the mollies all grow up and you decide to keep them. Try to keep it to 2-3 female mollies and one male.
 
The CAE will outgrow the tank and might well attack some of your fish as it matures. They can reach 10-11 inches.

The tank will be pushed a bit stocking wise if the mollies all grow up and you decide to keep them. Try to keep it to 2-3 female mollies and one male.

No im not keeping the fry, and usually the black male molly has the black female molly as his no1 and the young silver molly as no2. :rolleyes: And yes im aware of the potential size and aggression of the CAE now, thanks for the advice.

What i wanted (ideally) was the neon tetras, my betta (who recently died) and some pygmy cories in the 80l. But the pygmy cories cant stay in the 80l at the moment as it has salt in it. Which is why theyre in the larger tank and the molly with whitespot in the salty tank. Also the neons nipped the pygmys so they wont be going back in there either.

Have just found another fish dead (big probs at mo), so that takes the neon total down to 9 now :rolleyes:
 

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