should i add new fish to my tank?

[dsscingular]

Hey everyone

Wanted to know if everyone thinks I should add more fish to my tank or leave it the way it is?

My tank stats are listed in my sig, and I have also recently added a few plants to the tank.

TIA!

 

[heyimeugene]

Congrats on the cycle!! How long did it take? The danios are great fish for starters IMO, they can survive the craziest environments... I think I read somewhere here someone found a danio in their filter??? Crazy! I think you'd be good for 2 or 3 more fish.. althought I'm not sure how big the pleco gets?

From what I've read and learned the general rule was like 1-inch of fish per gallon... something like that

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Good Luck!!

 

[dsscingular]

Took about 3 weeks in all, I'm so excited that it's finally done

I can't find too much info on the rubber lip pleco's, but what I did find said that they grow to about 5" max.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I think a 5" plec is going to be taking up an awful lot of the biooad in a 10gallon tank. I wouldn't keep a plec in anything less than 25galls, but that's just me I'm sure.

Whatever you do add, I suggest that it is the sort of fish that does not produce a lot of waste to counteract the plec.

 

[Bungy]

Another "Whatever you do...." Do not add your fish too quickly - the extra load on your filter media bacteria will mean that more bacteria will need to be colonised to cope with the extra waste from the new fish. I did it too quick and disease set in and I lost half my fish stock.

 

[jeej]

If you do a fishless cycle, then in theory you can add all your fish at once, as your tank will be fully setup to deal with a huge bioload.