Boring Old Stocking Question..

[Robj]

There seems to be so many different ideas about stocking levels that a newbie in the fish world like me gets confused. I thought I was OK but the more I read I worry that I may have overstocked my tank. I have 165l tank with an Interpet PF4 filter. My stocking is as follows:

6x glowlight tetra
6x rosy tetra
9x cardinal tetra
4x zebra loach
2x BN catfish

Does this look OK or have I goofed?

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

If your tank is a 4-footer (mainly for the benefit of the loaches), for a change I'm writing you are not overstocked! *gasp*

If anything, I would add 2-4 more Zebra Loaches and perhaps up the Rosy plus Glowlights to ~9 over time.

Do you know the sex of your two BNs?

 

[Robj]

If your tank is a 4-footer (mainly for the benefit of the loaches), for a change I'm writing you are not overstocked! *gasp*

If anything, I would add 2-4 more Zebra Loaches and perhaps up the Rosy plus Glowlights to ~9 over time.

Do you know the sex of your two BNs?

I think the tank is a 120cm, so yes 4ft.

Not sure on the sex of the BNs, is there an easy way to tell? They both seem very similar no obvious physical differences, though one is sightly lighter than the other. Really like the zebra's they seem very playfull & always zipping about.

None of the tetra's really seem to shoal, they just seem to mix themselves up & do their own things, would upping the numbers change ths behaviour?

 

[soybean]

Shoaling is defence and safety behaviour, the fewer you have the more likely they are to stick tightly together - tetras drifting about doing their own thing is a good thing!

 

[fluttermoth]

Not sure on the sex of the BNs, is there an easy way to tell?

Yes, only the males have proper bristles; females have either none, or only a few very small ones on the cheeks.

None of the tetra's really seem to shoal, they just seem to mix themselves up & do their own things, would upping the numbers change ths behaviour?

No, as soybean says, they'll only shoal when they're spooked or scared; my green neons, for instance, only shoal when my teenage son slams his bedroom door

 

[Robj]

Not sure on the sex of the BNs, is there an easy way to tell?

Yes, only the males have proper bristles; females have either none, or only a few very small ones on the cheeks.

That'll be 2 males then!

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Not sure on the sex of the BNs, is there an easy way to tell?

Yes, only the males have proper bristles; females have either none, or only a few very small ones on the cheeks.

None of the tetra's really seem to shoal, they just seem to mix themselves up & do their own things, would upping the numbers change ths behaviour?

No, as soybean says, they'll only shoal when they're spooked or scared; my green neons, for instance, only shoal when my teenage son slams his bedroom door

Do they not schoal if anyone else bangs a door then?

 

[fluttermoth]

No, as soybean says, they'll only shoal when they're spooked or scared; my green neons, for instance, only shoal when my teenage son slams his bedroom door

Do they not schoal if anyone else bangs a door then?

No-one else in the house ever slams their doors!