Is My Tank Over Stocked

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It's a rena 120l x 70.5h x 40.5w 98 uk gallons:

3 clown loach
2 suckermouth catfish
5 barb
5 neon tetra
2 angel fish
1 bolivian ram
1 chinese algae eater (going soon)
2 rainbow fish
2 black mollies
3 swordtails
2 dwarf guarami
1 red-tailed black shark
2 black skirt tetras

I'm using a rena filstar xp 2 external filter.

 

[mark.w.jones]

OK. You quote 98 UK gallons but those measurements in cm come to nearer 75 UK gallons and in inches come to 360 UK gallons. What model of Rena is it? As without tank capacity we can't say of you are overstocked or not.

My guess is that you mean 98 US Gallons. You could do with mybe more filtration as the XP2 has 300 gph filter quoted and ideally you want between 5 - 10 times your tank capacity being turned over in an hour so really you need to look at a 500gph filter or more. I don't think you are overtstocked but some problems I've noticed include:

1. Fully grown angels eat neons.
2. The RTBS may look on Clowns as threat as they are a similar body shape.
4. Black skirts need 6+ members.
5. Rainbow fish need 4-5+ members

You have very peaceful species mixed with very aggresive and terratorial species. There are bound to be problems if you don't rectify this. I assume you've got away with it so far as they are all young but as they mature you will certainly have problems.

 

[lilfishie]

any idea on what the 2 suckermouth catfish are? a picture would help

 

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If you go here this is the tank i have, i think i got my litres and gallons wrong.

http/www.aquariumsdelivered.co.uk/catalo...birch-p-74.html

This is my suckermouth catfish i have, i'd probably say there between 15-20cm at the mo. I like them but don't want them to be cramped, this is the reason i want to know if my tank is overstocked as i don't want them to be cramped,.

 

[lilfishie]

according to the link the tank is 260 litres which is 69 gallons, as for the stocking i'll get back to you on that if someone else doens't before

oh and that looks like a syno to me but i'm no expert. and what barbs do you?

right so you have 101.25 inches excluding the catfish, barbs, rainbow fish and the RTBS