Am I Overstocked?

[Ian H]

The tank is an 83 gallon 5ft bow front it has:

1 common plec (about 5 inch's)
1 bristle nose plec (about 5 inch's too)
1 male sword tail
2 female sword tails
4 amano shrimp
1 spotted climbing perch
3 bronze corys
2 jullii corys
4 clown loachs
8 black phantom tetras
1 german blue ram
about 5 pentazona barbs
about 6 neon tetras
about 4 glowlight tetras
3 black neon tetras
1 male dwarf cokatoo cichlid
1 female dwarf cokatoo cichlid

i have 2 aqua one CF 1000 external filters and a fluval 3 internal running on the tank. The tank also has quite alot of plants, readings are fine (0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 5 nitrate)

just worried about adding to many fish!!

the plec, clown loachs and climbing perch will likely be moved into a bigger tank some time this year

 

[shroob]

Not sure about the stocking, but I would be worried about that ctenopoma, in time it will eat your shrimp, neons and anyfish that can fit in its mouth (which is surprisingly large).

 

[Ian H]

hence the reason hes going in a bigger tank with the loachs and plec

he's still only a baby at the moment (although his mouth is HUGE )

in my sig you can see him to the bottom right of the bright orange swordtail (small/average size)

 

[shroob]

Oh jeez...can't believed I missed that....

 

[Esfa]

Sounds fine to me!

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yep sounds fine to me as well.

Personally if it was me I would get a few more of each of the tetra species you have to bring each group up to at least 6 and maybe a couple up to 10-12.

 

[Luketendo]

1 common plec (about 5 inch's) - Probably ok.
1 bristle nose plec (about 5 inch's too) - Fine
1 male sword tail - Fine
2 female sword tails - Fine
4 amano shrimp - Would like more company...I think..
1 spotted climbing perch - Not sure
3 bronze corys - Would like 6
2 jullii corys - Would like 6
4 clown loachs - Fine
8 black phantom tetras - Good
1 german blue ram - Ok
about 5 pentazona barbs - fine
about 6 neon tetras
about 4 glowlight tetras - would like a few more
3 black neon tetras - would like a few more
1 male dwarf cokatoo cichlid - fine
1 female dwarf cokatoo cichlid - fine

Yeah personally I think you could up the shoals a lot.

 

[Ian H]

thats good then, i wanted to up the numbers of tetra and corys but was worried i was overstocked as it is.

As soon as my LFS gets some cherry shrimp i'll have a few of them too

 

[Matt_northants]

Yeah those cherry shrimp are lovely.