Community Stocking Levels?

[tropicaltone]

Hi Everyone,

I am about to stock my L48"xW15"xH18" 220ltr heavily planted tank with small to medium sized community fish.

Please can you tell what you would think is a good stocking level in inches for this setup?

Thanks

 

[kayzcar]

http/www.thinkfish.co.uk/index.html

try this

 

[tropicaltone]

Thanks thats a very cool site

 

[tropicaltone]

unfortunately this site works out the stocking levels wrong, plus it works it out on the juvenile fish size not the adult fish size

 

[LisaLQ]

Hi Everyone,

I am about to stock my L48"xW15"xH18" 220ltr heavily planted tank with small to medium sized community fish.

Please can you tell what you would think is a good stocking level in inches for this setup?

Thanks

Is the tank cycled, and how long has it been set up?

If it's a new tank, you should stick to the 1" per gallon (this only works with small/medium fish) rule - not all in one go though, slowly does it. If it's been set up 6 months or more, you could go up to 1.5" or even 2" slowly, all the time depending on whether your filtration is coping and what the stats say.

 

[n3ont3tra]

Lisa's post was great, I'd just like to add that space is a factor. If you get a territorial species, it doesn't matter how low you're stats are, you may not be able to get anything else or they'll be bullied or killed.

 

[paul_219]

Thanks for the website. Its gr8.