How Many Fish Is Too Many

[whatwonderfulfishrsoles]

Hi, all, this forum is amazing, I've learnt more in the last few days from members of this site than anywhere else. I own a Juwel Rio 180l tank, I've read about the 1 inch rule per fish but even then I think that maybe that is too much for my tank, I have a large selection of plants and a piece of wood, any suggestions on how many fish I should keep.

Kind regards

 

[archamfr]

it all depends on what fish u get to be honest.
the 1 inch of fish per 1 gallon of water rule is only a very rough guideline.
for instance, you could have a shoal of say neons, say 20 of them. with the rule this would need about 30 gallons of water, but they would happily live in a 15-20 gal no worries.
how many fish u get also depends on what kinda tank you would like (community, species....) in a community tank you can add a fair amount of fish, because of the natures of the fish.

i think the best thing to do would be to look around, see what fish u would like and post a list on here. someone will be more than happy to suggest wether that stocking is good, or which fish may need rethinking

hope this helped

 

[vinylman]

But always, ALWAYS stock your tank based on the ADULT SIZE of the fish you want. That's why researching any fish you're interested in is so important.

 

[timmystood]

Yeah, like achamfr says it depends of loads of things:
- How often you feed a tank
- How often your willing to do maintanence
- What fish you stock it with
- The size of the tank

However, I wouldn't recommend the one inch per gallon rule.. too rough in my view. I normally say stop when you think it's too crowded but you get some people try to crame fish in. I would just keep us updated with what you have and people on this forum are very quick to jump on people who are overcrowded so you'd soon know!