Overstocked Yes, No Or Maybe

[QuotheRaven]

2 x Yoyo Loaches
1 x Botia Sidthimunki
1 x Java Loaches
5 x Kuhlii Loaches
2 x Peppered Cories
1 x Giant Kuhlii Loach
2 x Swordtails
2 x Albino Cories
2 x Bronze Cories
2 x Tiger Barbs


It is sand Bottomed and the Tiger Barbs are not aggressive to other fish at all.

 

[raptorrex]

2 x Yoyo Loaches
1 x Botia Sidthimunki
1 x Java Loaches
5 x Kuhlii Loaches
2 x Peppered Cories
1 x Giant Kuhlii Loach
2 x Swordtails
2 x Albino Cories
2 x Bronze Cories
2 x Tiger Barbs


It is sand Bottomed and the Tiger Barbs are not aggressive to other fish at all.

it would depend on the size of your tank! though the inch per gallon is a fair measure, it may be worth checking the Bio load, as this can often give you very suprising results!

 

[QuotheRaven]

Oh it's 32 gallons silly me not mentioning it (also the tank was placed with this stock not delibrately it was a safety thing due to disease and other extraneous variables)

 

[y2blade]

i'd put your tank dimensions into the PFK fish calculator thats what i did and mine are happy..my levels are always "safe"


alot of conflicting opinions regarding stocking levels imho

 

[QuotheRaven]

That stocking calculator is very wrong in my opinion and experience. Stating you can have like 20 fish in a ten gallon which isn't correct. But that calculator may be a better one than the norm

 

[raptorrex]

That stocking calculator is very wrong in my opinion and experience. Stating you can have like 20 fish in a ten gallon which isn't correct. But that calculator may be a better one than the norm

yeh check to see if it works on the inch or bio level!!!! as i said the 2 calcs give very different results.

 

[QuotheRaven]

We would recommend keeping up to 24"/61cm of small to medium-sized fish in your system. However, depending on the type of fish, your filtration and your maintenance level you may be able to exceed this to a suggested maximum of 48"/122cm of fish.


thats what I got with the stocking density calculator

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Bioload wise, your stocking sounds fine as long as you have suitable filtration for the tank, but how long and wide is the tank?
Other than that, you have certain types of fish in couples which would do a lot better in groups of 4-6+ (i.e. tiger bards do best in groups of 8+, swordtails do best in grousp fo 3-4+ depending on the genders, peppered corys do best in grousp of 3-4+ etc); i would advise working on your stocking for the sake of getting much better numbers of certain types of fish, you will probably have to rehome one or two fish types to do this though.