do i have too many fish in my tank

[Fishy89]

do i have too many fish in my tank
10 gal: 4 swordtails (2 marigold, 2 lyretail hi-fins: 1 female is pregnant)
4 neon tetras
3 guppies (1 male 2 female: 1 female is pregnant)
1 platinum gouramie
1 small pleco ( i guess he's dwarf)

 

[QHowes]

Yes you do...1 inch of fish is equal to 1 gallon of water. Exept for goldfish, goldfish need more room than normal.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I tried to explain the plec thing to you in another thread. He is unlikely to be a dwarf, he'll just be young. Common plecs get very big and pretty fast.

I think you are borderline without the plec anyway to be honest.

Maybe I am wrong

 

[Fishy89]

how much time do you think i have til he outgrows my tank?

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I am not sure as I have never had one for any amount of time (I had one as a newbie but he died within a few days during what I now know was cycling).

 

[Fishy89]

k thanks for helping

 

[Idolz]

It depends on how much he eats and how warn the water is.
You should have got a bushy nosed plec. I don't think they get as big

 

[G_Sharky]

My common plec double it's size in 3 weeks, when i first got him hes only a little bigger than 1" and he's almost 3" now, if you have a common plec then 10 g is not even close, try to talk to your LFS if they would take it as a trade in as it gets bigger, I talk to my LFS recently and they said that they would take my plec when it outgrows my tank although i'm not getting a lot back they said they'll probably gave me 5 bucks for a monster pleco..

 

[Fishy89]

cool. i oughta try that. i thought that lfs only took very young fish

 

[cutechic]

I'd say take out the pleco and the gourami. Unless you have really good filtration and live plants, that is. Then I think you might be able to leave the gourami in.