How Many More

[my fat fish]

well i wanan know hgow may more tetras to put into my tank as i have no idea its going into my 17gal

sp far i have

3 balloon mollies

2 dwarf gourmies

2 bn plecs (yes i know they will need moving to my bigger tank eventualy)

5 neon tetras (was more but had a few accidents )

2 golden gobys

3 guppies



so is there room for any more tetras? or am i over crowded


also concidering some tetras for my big tank tho haven decyded yet just wondering it all is compatiable

its almost 5ft long around 47gallons

i have

2 clown loach

2 pearl gourmies (1 has only 1 eye i saved it the fs dident wanna sell it he said thay aint allowed as it is not normaly but i insisted i could give it a good life )

2 dwarf gourmies

2 rainbow fish

2 balloon mollies

2 blue fang gobys

i may be rehoming the balloon mollies if i need to to my smaller tank i only moved them in thr as they were being excessivle bullied and 1 almost died

 

[nmonks]

Yes, you're probably close to or at your limit, especially allowing for growth. One problem you have is that your fish all need different water conditions:

Dwarf gouramis, neon tetras = Slightly soft and acidic water
Guppies, bristlenose plecs = neutral water, moderate hardness
Mollies, bumblebee gobies = Very hard, alkaline water, ideally with some salt added

Sooner or later some of these fish will get sick because of the wrong water chemistry in the aquarium. Spend even ten minutes on the livebearer forum and you'll see lots of posts from people with sick mollies. Contrary to what the fish shop says, they do best with some marine aquarium salt mix in the water. But adding that will kill your neons and gouramis.

I have no idea what a "blue fang goby" is. Do try and learn to use Latin names. The names stuck on fish in fish shops are often made up and not very helpful.

Cheers,

Neale

 

[my fat fish]

i got the mollies as my first fish and the store i got them from lied to me alot so i cant do owt about them atm tho my tank has been set up 4 a while now and all seem to have a strong colour and look healthy so hopefuly they will be okay

the blue fang goby have no idea of ther normal name/latin there like golden gobs just bigger and have a square body instead of round

 

[nmonks]

Please, please, please, can you write in full sentences? With actual words! I have no idea what "owt", "gobs", and "atm" mean. And "4 a while" surely isn't English. Trust me, when people take the time to write their questions and comments properly, they get a much better response from the more experienced aquarists. Not everyone here is a 15-year old obsessed with sending text messages on their cellphone! Also, not everyone here is familiar with vernacular forms of English that might seem obvious to you, especially if English is for them a second language.

By default, "freshwater" gobies need brackish water. There are relatively few that spend their entire lives in freshwater (something like 1 in 10 goby species). Please try and take a photograph and upload it somewhere so that it can be identified by someone knowledgeable about such things.

You may be lucky with your mollies and they do well in freshwater. Some do, particularly in hard, alkaline water. But even then, such conditions won't suit your dwarf gouramis, and under such conditions there is a very high probability you'll have to deal with the dreaded "dwarf gourami disease".

Sincerely,

Neale

i got the mollies as my first fish and the store i got them from lied to me alot so i cant do owt about them atm tho my tank has been set up 4 a while now and all seem to have a strong colour and look healthy so hopefuly they will be okay

the blue fang goby have no idea of ther normal name/latin there like golden gobs just bigger and have a square body instead of round

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

Try to rehome the goby and mollies. They say angels need soft acidic water also but that isn't intierly true, since they've become popular they've been abeal to ajust to the diffrent water chemistries. That also goes for neon tetras and gouramis. If you got a wild one then you would need soft acidic water, but with a store bought one, chemistry doesn't have to be dead on.