Too Many Fish?

[fishyman12312]

i i was wondering if i had too many fish
i have an 80 gallon tank with a fluval 404 filter
fish
-betta 2inch
-parrot-4inch
-silver angelfish4inch
-black angelfish 3.5inch
-2x albino corydora 1inch
-albino frog-1inch
-black ghost knife 5inch
-2x red tailed tetra 1inch
-bushy nose pleco 3inch
-sailfin pleco 2.5inch
-gold nugget pleco-1inch
-royal pleco 1.5inch
- albino pleco 1.5inch
-gold dust pleco 3inch
-2x congo tetra 2.5inch
-2x irr shark 2inch
-2x unknown extremely small fish 0.25inch

They all seem to get together fine.
the tank looks nearly empty as most fish are in caves or wood or on bottom
i have alot of live plants and live mangrove and other wood
water has always been very clear
lfs says i could put a few more fish in
thanks alot

 

[Teelie]

Eventually you will be, and you need to shore up those tretra and cory numbers to at least 5 of each species. Same with the sharks.

The Ghost Knife will eventually eat the smaller fish, if the Albino Frog doesn't first, or the Parrot. The sharks will grow massive (3 feet) though are fortunately more passive fish.

The Sailfin will grow to over two feet, the (presumably Common) Albino over 16" and some of them aren't completely compatible either not to mention all those plecs are messy eaters and mass waste producers.

I'd suggest returning or exchanging some of the larger fish for some more managable ones.

 

[love cichlids]

Parrot fish get quite large and need space
Angelfish get very tall and need a tall tank with lots of room
Black ghost knife need a very large tank, larger than what you have
Plecos get huge
In summary yes you have too many fish
You should have an angelfish 35 gallon tank
And a few larger tanks for the plecos
Basically yoiu have to seperate most of your fish into the appropriate size of tank or they will eventually start dying off from being cramped. Do your research on each fish that you have and you will see what I mean. The Black ghost knife will get larger and longer, the plecos are going to constantly get bigger.
http/badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile66.html
http/www.fishpondinfo.com/pleco.htm#set
http/boeing_dude.tripod.com/id188.htm
http/chistakitten.virtue.nu/Fish/iridescentshark.html
try these sites and you will realize that you need to rehome these fish in different tanks or get rid of them.

 

[Durbkat]

Also the betta needs to be removed because of the size of the tank and tank mates.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Your biggest issue is with your plecs, they all grow quite large and won't tolerate each other as they mature;

The sailfin plec will get too big for the tank depending on the dimensions of the tank, they can easily get to 2ft long.
There isn't a plec called a gold dust plec, but there are gold nugget plecs( http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/loric...yanci/153_F.PHP )and one would be fine for a 80gal but they don't tolerate other plecs at all so if you keep it, you should keep it alone otherwise it'll terorise the other plecs in there.
By bushy nose plec do you mean bristlenose plec? If so it'll be fine for the tank, but it depends what else you keep in the tank.
The royal plec will also be ok for your tank depending on its dimensions, but i wouldn't mix it with any similar sized plecs;

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/loric...naque/151_F.PHP

The albino plec is most likely another sailfin plec...
There are alot of small growing plecs out there, but you really need to pre-research them before you get them, many plecs grow to a 1ft+ and some even to 3ft+...No large growing plec will stay small unless you put it in a seriously small tank and stunt its growth, but thats cruel and usually kills the fish in time, so you really need to rehome some of your plecs before they get to big or agressive towards other plecs in the tank- most plecs will grow an inch+ a month.

 

[RoyalGrammaPrincessHannah]

You didnt mention the ammonia. This will be the problem that arrises first.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Oh, i forgot to mention some of the other fish/critters- do you know wether your frog is an african dwarf frog or an african clawed frog or somthing else entirely? Its very important that you find this out . What type of sharks did you say you had again?? What genders are the bettas do you know?

 

[ARXC08]

Actually probably the black ghost knife is fine but irradescent sharks get huge

 

[Teelie]

Oh, i forgot to mention some of the other fish/critters- do you know wether your frog is an african dwarf frog or an african clawed frog or somthing else entirely?

9 times out of 10, an albino frog is an African Clawed Frog. Which means it'll have a stomach that matches it's rather big mouth.