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Azianboi343
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From:Seattle, Washington, United States
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posted 11-27-2003 08:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azianboi343     Edit/Delete Message
Hi, I have 3 swordtails (1male&2females), 2 corycats, 1 khuli loache, and 1 albino pleco in a 10 gallon tank, am I overstocking. I aslo have a 5 gallon tank that is empty, im planning use it as a nusery tank or the for the frys of my swordtails, if im overstocked should I move some of my fishes from my 10 gallon into my 5 gallon.

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kc5gvn

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posted 11-28-2003 01:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for kc5gvn     Edit/Delete Message
You're pretty close to maxed out. You will need to consider a change for the pleco when he gets larger.

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Tanya_woz_ere
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posted 11-28-2003 06:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tanya_woz_ere     Edit/Delete Message
The rule is 10gal per fishy

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dianenm
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posted 11-28-2003 08:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for dianenm     Edit/Delete Message
10 gal per fish doesn't give you much fish no matter how big your tank is ; )
I think the rule is one inch of fish per gallon of water.

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Azianboi343
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posted 11-28-2003 11:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azianboi343     Edit/Delete Message
does overstocking mean not enough room for the fishes to swim because my swordtails are biggest in the tank and are the only ones swimmming around, my corys stay at the bottom, my khulie hides under a rock thing and comes out at night and goes crazy, im not cocerned about my pleco, hes really small but always has lines of poop coming out of him.

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dianenm
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posted 11-28-2003 11:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for dianenm     Edit/Delete Message
well I think your tank sounds just fine! not too much fish for a 10 gal in my opinion.
those fish are doing what's normal for them from what I know about them.

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fishyfriend4u
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posted 11-29-2003 01:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fishyfriend4u     Edit/Delete Message
Don't worry about it but in about 6 more months buy a bigger tank.

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dianenm
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posted 11-29-2003 01:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dianenm     Edit/Delete Message
why do they need to get a bigger tank?
I'm just curious.. I mean I know the pleco will get way too big, eventually, but you can just trade that "sucker" (bad pun) in for a smaller one if/when that happens..
her set up sounds fine to me! plus, even if there's a tad too many inches of fish in there per gallon, can't she just do a little more water changes to compensate?

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Azianboi343
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posted 11-29-2003 09:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azianboi343     Edit/Delete Message
im a he, thx everyone who replied

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kc5gvn

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posted 11-30-2003 12:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for kc5gvn     Edit/Delete Message
The measurement we went by (for those that are interested) when I was running pet shops was as follows:
Small tropicals-1"/gallon of water
Large tropicals (ex. cichlids) and Marine-1"/3 gallons or water
Scavengers (Otto's, Cory's, etc.) were excluded from calculation due to their feeding nature
These measurements were derived for oxygen requirements and bacterial filtration. They do not take into account the front to back depth of a tank in regard to fish size. For example a fish 18" long in a tank with a front to back depth of 12".

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dianenm
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posted 11-30-2003 06:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for dianenm     Edit/Delete Message
hey, thanks kc5gvn. that's interesting on the large cichlids needing a bit more water.. also on the scavengers not counting!
awesome info!

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