Is This Any Better

[southyorkshireguy]

I was told that my fish tank was overstocked i have a juwel rekord 120 aquarium that is 101 X 39 X 31.

I had 5 Guppys, 4 Platies, 4 Neons, 5 Black Neons, 3 Rasboras, 4 Glowlight Tetras, 4 Corydoras Catfish, 2 Plecos, 3 Cherry Barbs & some baby fish.

Now i have 3 Guppys, 3 Platies, 3 Neons, 4 Black Neons, 3 Rasboras, 3 Glowlight Tetras, 4 Corydoras Catfish, 2 Plecos & some baby fish.

I took some fish back to the fish shop and they happily took them off my hands.

Hopefully my tank is no longer overstocked.

 

[d3tained]

Looks good to me even the way it was.

I belive as long as your filtration is good you can house more fish.Obviously you cant over do it.Fish need to have space.

Check my sig,all fine..

 

[Miss Wiggle]

really depends on what plecs you have. I'd say the rest of the stocking looks fine and you've maybe a little room spare afterwards. But some plecs get to over a foot long and you've definately not got room if you've two of those. Do you know what plecs they are?

 

[corrosive]

My personal opinion is...

Catfish tend to dwell along the bottom of the tank... Tetras etc tend to hang around the middle to top regions of the tank, so as long you have good filtration as stated above in the previous post, you should be ok.

Make sure you have lots of dark, or hiding spots for your plecs and corys though.

 

[southyorkshireguy]

I think they are clown sucker plecs although i'm not 100% sure.

 

[corrosive]

Put it this way... all of the fish in my signature were in my 20 Gallon with only a fluval 2+ filter (i was running a fluval 4 filter in the tank for the first year or so though) i did have 2 more corys until the recent heatwave, and a couple more tetras... I was slated quite a great deal for it being "over-stocked" but all of the fish were fine, and have lived like that for a couple of years give or take.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=34967

are these your plecs??

if so then your about fully stocked, I wouldn't add any more but I don't think you've cause for concern. You can work it out yourself with the inch per gallon rule. find out the adult sizes of all your fish in inches, add them all up and this should be roughly the same as the number of gallons of water your tank holds. There are a number of exceptions and you can stretch it a bit with good filtration and maintenance. Also I always think you can stretch a bit if you've fish that like different levels fo the tank as you won't be reducing the swimming space.

 

[southyorkshireguy]

Those plecos don't look like mine, i actually think mine are leopard pleco's.

 

[emma12321]

Hi,

Do they look like this http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/speci...?species_id=148

Emma