Am I Overstocked?

[grammaton]

Hi all. I have had my tank going for around 2 months and I want to add 2-3 more fish. I have the elite 60 with the stingray15 filter. I have taken out the carbon/zeolite cartridges and replace them with foam media. I have the following fish:
2 x mollies
2 x glowlight tetras
2 x black neons
2 x silvertip neons
2 x dwarf neons
2 x cherry barbs
2 x neon tetras
1 x plattie
I would like to introduce 2-3 more fish, maybe 2 more neon tetras and a plattie. Is my tank ok for this or is it overstocked?
Thanks

 

[azzaknight]

whats the water parameters?
what filter is runnig on the tank?

also mollies are brakish water fish so you shouldnt really have them in there. also you have too many different types of tetras. each type should be kept in groups of atleast six so i would:

2 x mollies ditch
2 x glowlight tetras up size too 6
2 x black neons ditch
2 x silvertip neons ditch
2 x dwarf neons ditch
2 x cherry barbs keep and up too 4
2 x neon tetras keep and up size to 6
1 x plattie keep + add 2 more

then leave it at that for abit and maybe add osme cories once the tank has matured
also is your platy a male or female??

 

[ChiNA MaN]

some ways to many or some ways u could knock off some and add a few more.

 

[lilfishie]

whats the water parameters?
what filter is runnig on the tank?

also mollies are brakish water fish so you shouldnt really have them in there. also you have too many different types of tetras. each type should be kept in groups of atleast six so i would:

2 x mollies ditch
2 x glowlight tetras up size too 6
2 x black neons ditch
2 x silvertip neons ditch
2 x dwarf neons ditch
2 x cherry barbs keep and up too 4
2 x neon tetras keep and up size to 6
1 x plattie keep + add 2 more

then leave it at that for abit and maybe add osme cories once the tank has matured
also is your platy a male or female??

True although most mollies these days are bred in freshwater so do perfectly fine.

I would have ither 2 shoals of 6 or one big shoal of around 15, then 2-3 center peice fish (mollies o platies since you have them) or somethink like honey gourami

 

[grammaton]

whats the water parameters?
what filter is runnig on the tank?

also mollies are brakish water fish so you shouldnt really have them in there. also you have too many different types of tetras. each type should be kept in groups of atleast six so i would:

2 x mollies ditch
2 x glowlight tetras up size too 6
2 x black neons ditch
2 x silvertip neons ditch
2 x dwarf neons ditch
2 x cherry barbs keep and up too 4
2 x neon tetras keep and up size to 6
1 x plattie keep + add 2 more

then leave it at that for abit and maybe add osme cories once the tank has matured
also is your platy a male or female??

True although most mollies these days are bred in freshwater so do perfectly fine.

I would have ither 2 shoals of 6 or one big shoal of around 15, then 2-3 center peice fish (mollies o platies since you have them) or somethink like honey gourami

Thanks for the replies. My water parameters are nitrate 5 nitrites 0 ammonia 1.2 ph 7.5 I am having a sort of spike in ammonia as I checked it last week and ammonia was at 0. When you say 2 shoals of 6 which fish do you all reccommend?

 

[arobinson1984]

I wouldn't get anymore fish for the moment until your filter has processed the necessary bacteria to keep ther ammonia levels down. At 1.2 the ammonia is way too high and you'll need to perform water changes to get the level down below 0.25ppm as they are constantly being subjected to poisonous conditions.

Its like living in a toilet

Andy

 

[OldMan47]

I see this misinformation printed far too often. Mollies, the kind we see in pet shops, are not brackish although they are able to tolerate salt in their water. There are a limited number of molly species that are found in fresh or brackish water and do fine in either one in the wild. There are also many species of mollies that are killed outright by being subjected to brackish water. Unless you know which molly you have, it can be chancy putting salt into their water. Most of the ones we find in the LFS can take a fair amount of salt if they are acclimated properly. Some of them can go into a pure reef type tank if properly acclimated. They are flexible fish or the people that insist that they are brackish would have learned how wrong they are by now.

There are mismatched fish in the tank though. The mollies and platies will do best in hard, high mineral content, water with a relatively high pH while the rest of the fish will do better in soft water with neutral or even slightly lower pH. As others have already said, the sheer number of different fish in the tank begs to be straightened out. Much more than 3 or 4 species of fish, especially schooling fish, ends up looking disorganized and sloppy in a tank. A few large groups of schooling fish always ends up looking better in a tank the size most of us can accommodate. It seems wrong to suggest it here, but if you really like the platies and also really like the tetra types, maybe it is time for another tank so that you can accommodate both types.

 

[meguro]

Just as tank bred mollies can tolerate freshwater even though some of them are apparently brackish, tank bred tetras don't need "soft, slightly acidic" water to thrive. Community tanks are generally set up under the concept of compromise. Avoid the extremes and you should be fine.