Overstocking On Fish?

[SkiFletch]

One inch per five gallons? Who the hell came up with that?

Honestly, it's not that you will have too many fish - it's that you may have picked the wrong kind of fish. Anthias: fast and should be in schools; Scooter Blenny: obligate microfauna eater. Those two right there will spell trouble for a 30 gallon tank.

Remove those two, and you will doubtedly have any problems.

I have an old book at my house that recommends over ten fish - some are medium-sized - for a 30 gallon tank. If anything, with our powerful, modern protein skimmers, deep sand beds, refugiums, phosphate removers, et cetera, our ability to put fish in a tank should have increased, not decreased.

-Lynden

Couldnt agree more Lynden. That anthias has to go . And man, I'd really really keep a close eye on that scooter and the rainsford. I know you said they eat, but look at their bellies. Be a conscientious aquarist and if they look at all sunken, pull em out and sell them to someone with a larger tank.

Edit: It's ok to sound like a n00b, even I was one once. Also try to bear with those of us with experience here as we've seen (and sometimes personally experienced) the failures n00bs make on a regular basis. Sometimes reading the same posts over and over again can lead people to be short with n00bs regardless of how much they may want to help.

 

[wflash3]

Couldnt agree more Lynden. That anthias has to go . And man, I'd really really keep a close eye on that scooter and the rainsford. I know you said they eat, but look at their bellies. Be a conscientious aquarist and if they look at all sunken, pull em out and sell them to someone with a larger tank.

Edit: It's ok to sound like a n00b, even I was one once. Also try to bear with those of us with experience here as we've seen (and sometimes personally experienced) the failures n00bs make on a regular basis. Sometimes reading the same posts over and over again can lead people to be short with n00bs regardless of how much they may want to help.

ok so thats what i will do, i just checked out their bellies and everything looks normal, though i havint seen sunken bellies before so im not sure what they look like even though the name is obvious. I will go take the anthias back to the lfs he had soo much personality, now my only problem will be how i will take him out....

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[wflash3]

Ok....the change is done.... minus one fish...plus one coral. It took me about 45 minutes to get the anthias out the tank because that thing is a great hider!! I was trying to avoid moving rocks but it was impossible. My LFS gave me half of what i paid for it as store credit ($10). I got my self a "dead mans hand" coral. It is funny because it took 3 employees to identify what it was

so did i do a good thing? or was adding coral another mistake?

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[wflash3]

actually....i dont think its what they said it was, im thinking its a kenya tree coral? I will post a picture soon and let me know what u think it is...

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[n3ont3tra]

Well, the only info I could find on that coral was this:
http/www.athiel.com/lib2/alcy.html

EDIT: ^^^ That is the dead man's hand coral.