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Overstocked fish tanks?
Help me balance these two fish tanks stockwise and compatibility wise. Thanks!
60 gallon tank current residents
11 black neons tetra
8 glowlite tetra
4 cardinal tetra
12 skirt tetra
11 danio
2 honey gouraimi
1 pristella tetra
3 seprae red long skirt tetra
50 gallon current residents
1 gold gour
4 blue gour
1 tiger barb
1 glass fish
1 red eye tetra
4 scissor rasbora
1 rosefin rasbora
If I am overstocked which ones do you recommend to move to a third tank.
PS I did not buy the shoaling species as one fish. I adopted them from friends and family who only had one fish left in their dying tanks and asked me to care for them since they were 'done with fish'.
Piscivore, I do have nerite snails, trumpet snails and ghost shrimp in the 60 gallon and it is fully planted.
The 50 only has some ramshorn snails for bottom feeding. I want some medium adult loaches or other bottom catfish types for the 50 later.
It seems though that the general consensus is that I am not overstocked but should watch for aggression.
I will consider maybe having black neons and glowlites with danios only. And try to rehome the odds and ends. Perhaps rehome 1 or 2 of the male bigger gourami and move the skirts into the 50.
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well, I would get rid of the cardinals and get more neons. I would get rid of the pristella and get more neons. I would get id of the serpaes and get more neons. I would get rid of the glowlites and get more neons.
This is because schooling fish like these look so much better in a big school, much, much nicer then having many species of schoolers in singles or pairs or tiny groups.
For the 50 gallon, I would do the same thing. Get rid of all but 2 types of schooler and keep them in better and nicer groups. I would most certainly get rid of the tiger barb - they are very large, active, and feisty and a group of them will limit more what else you can keep. Are your gouramis young still? I would expect aggression problems in this tanks - if it is working and there is none, there is no need to change it, but keep an eye on that.
What I find missing from both those tanks is a complete lack of bottom dwellers.
To me a really nice 60 gallon community would look more like:
20 black neon tetras
10 zebra danios
2-4 honey gourami
8-10 dwarf corydora catfish
Variety seems like a better idea to beginners, but if you would be amazed at how much nicer the aquarium looks as a whole with just a few large groups. I understand that you were given these odds and ends, but why not advertise them and give them away to people who already have groups they can add them to?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Everything looks compatible but you might be pushing the 60 gallon. Depends on your water changes and what kind of filtration you have. You didn't say. My suggestion would be if it isn't 4x the volume per hour at least then move something. Doesn't matter what. Just keep your groups together or in numbers of 3 or more. Move 10 or so. The saying is one inch of fish per gallon but a lot of other factors play into the reality of that and usually if that rule is followed tanks end up having water quality issues.
- 1 decade ago
Gourami may fight each other and barbs can be nippy, but all seem fine with the # of fish in each tank. They should be fine, just watch for aggression and keep up water changes.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
freeshwater tanks are boring and overdone go saltwater man freshwater is just above a beta in a bowl and a betas just above a goldfish in a trailer park in a bottle of beer being feed to stevo on jackass then thrown up
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