How Overstocked Is My 10G Nano Tank?

[donny7]

I have a yellow clown goby (1") an engineer goby (2") and a false perc (2.5")

CUC consists of two nassarius snails, a turbo snail and a brittle star fish. I have a 20g HOB filter with live rock caked in coraline in the media compartment. I also have about 15lbs of live rock, getting more soon. I really just want to add one more perc. Will it crash my system or pose a lot of problems?

 

[woody88]

That's overstocked IMO. Clowns need a min of 25-30G.

For a tank that size you could get away with chromis or a goby IMO and/or a shrimp/goby pair.
You'll find you'll have a heavy bioload which is means your gonna need a skimmer and perform weekly water changes to keep the water reasonably safe for the inhabitants.

Sorry for the negative reply.

 

[seffieuk]

Clowns really do need more space, I kept a pair in 26 gallons and thought they were fine, moved them to 400 L and you should see the difference in their behaviour, contrary to popular thinking they dont just stay with 22cm of their host!

Seffie x

 

[HappyGeorge]

Engineer Goby get to a foot long? It shouldn't really be in that tank, copied this from the first hit on Engineer Goby info from a google search "It should be kept in a 70 gallon or larger aquarium with a sand covered bottom where it may make burrows".

 

[lewiss]

Mate, don't mean to be rude but you are being really cruel to those fish, you really really need to return them. Clowns are 30gal and as happy george says that goby needs a lot bigger too. The goby will die in time as your sand bed isn't big enough for him to feed and the clowns growth will be stunted, causing various health issues and on top of that will be very unhappy.
Please do the right thing!

 

[woody88]

Mate, don't mean to be rude but you are being really cruel to those fish, you really really need to return them. Clowns are 30gal and as happy george says that goby needs a lot bigger too. The goby will die in time as your sand bed isn't big enough for him to feed and the clowns growth will be stunted, causing various health issues and on top of that will be very unhappy.
Please do the right thing!

I agree