Managing An Overstocked Fish Tank - Maximizing Your Fish Tank
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Excellent analysis. This discussion is carrying the conversation into levels of understanding that create new knowledge. Very satisfying analysis.
Thanks! I appreciate your comment, great content challenging traditional thinking from your channel as well!
@@thedirtytank traditionally people don't think
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In 68 gallon long aquarium
@@justinmccain1896THATS THE MOST DEDICATED BETTA TANK EVER
I "overstock" all my tanks with little or no negative consequences. Plants. Filtration. Water changes. Three keys that you mentioned.
I have a similar tank and never need to change the water, what would cause a need to do that with so many plants? Only way I could see is if you introduce something harmful or if something dies and was sitting in there a long time but I've yet to experience that. Never have any sign of ammonia or nitrites. Nitrates aren't harmful in natural amounts but I usually have just enough.
I have a 29 gallon aquarium chinese theme with 7 platies Gold tuxedo wagtail 2 of them, 1 orange Mickey mouse, Tri color Mickey mouse, gold red, 📍 tail and pineapple. Toy cockpoo, 80 gallon Palarium with monkey 🦎 5 of them, 4 archer fish, 9 each Rudy red and green spotted scats, 2 Albino dragon gobies 4 regular ones, 8 each African and silver moon momos, red mangroves plants, 6 surviving GlassFish out of 12 of them rip, 7 coral reds, 5 coral blue platies, 6 red wag ⚔ tails female, 10 comet pink swordtails female and 1 knight goby. 16 Holstein Friesians, black mouth cur and corgipoo, and 2 Highland ponies.
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Overstocking can be done easily. In some cases it means weekly water changes. In others, not so much. Lightly stocked tanks with dense plant growth and sources of live food can see non-live bearer fish reproducing at a steady, even high rate. Just something to think about. Everything is a trade off. No one way to do things, just need to figure out what you want and then what that entails.
Exactly. Im 10 gals over the ich rule for my 20 Gal. 13 dwarf Corydoras, 9 Galexy Rasboras, and 6 Pork Chop rasboras. Every is happy. Yet people call me me evil lmO
Another informative video my guy🤙🏽
I always overstock my tanks. I have a lot of filtration, my tank is nicely planted, I always have floating plants (red root floaters are my favorite) which are great at sucking up excess nutrients and as you mentioned I stack my fish. I have never had any issues and I've been keeping fish for over 30 years.
You are well-spoken and have a good delivery.
Dude, get a room
I love the idea of many fish in layers I like to have an overstocked tank as I want a giant amount of 20 or so schooling (only one type) fish and one centerpeice fish at the top
Glad i found your site. Very informative. No hype.
Glad you enjoyed
I don't know if you mentioned this and I missed it, but the shape of the tank is important too; A long tank will not only allow more length for fish to sort of stretch out in, but also more segregation of adjoining spaces so that animals can have territories. It also gives more surface for the soil to absorb more waste, and subsequently more surface area for plants to root. Basically, just mimic a pond; They tend to be much wider than deep (which also means wider tanks are better than narrow ones).
Great video very helpful
I have a 29 gallon with 6 corydoras 5 cardinal tetras 9 red nose tetras (with very red noses) 6 glass catfish and 4 ottocinclus and soon to add 2 hillstream loaches and thinking what fish to make my centerpiece fish im between golden rams, honey gouramis or a betta fish. Lots of plants also on the outside of my tank lots of house plants hanging out the back of my tank. Everyone is happy 😊
Each of my endler tanks would _technically_ be defined as overstocked. However, I do give away alot of the excess, i have males in one and females in another and a betta female in the female tank to reduce the population of fry. I choose 1 male to pop into the female tank every once in a while to get certain colors. I scoop out the females close to fry dropping and let them have them in a growout tank. After they drop their fry I put the females back into the female tank. And this also helps keep down the population. My tanks are so full of plants that I don't always see a bunch of them together.
I run a HOB in each tank and I do a 10 to 15% water change every 2 weeks.
Great video
thanks so much
Looks good
im running a 20G tank.
currently stocked with
4 dalmatian mollies
7 neon tetras
5 kuhli loaches (i see them ALL DAY long)
10 shrimp
1 pleco (max size 4 inches)
i also have 9 different plants
7 planted
2 floaters
AND 3 HIDEOUTS
using a 40G sponge filter on a 40G air pump
so far, all is well!
I've never stocked according to the "experts" who all do the 1 to 1 ratio.
Currently have a 29 with 6 neons, 6 harlequin rasboras, 1 bristlenose, 6 ottos, 3 mystery snails, and 5 cory's. I'm still on the lookout for a good centerpiece fish or breeding pair of something (probably rams?) to throw in there. It's loaded with column feeding plants, tons of dwarf sag, a few random root feeder plants, 2 HOB filters, and a HOB plant box I stuffed with some pothos. The pothos plant box added a whole extra root system to the surface where the tetras like to hang out.
I love rams, can't go wrong there!
i follow the 1 inch per gallon, massive plant load, and the stacking rule. i have one fish and one tank. the fish is a 20'' black ghost knife who grew up over the past 3 years, and he's in a 20L tank. he spends all day under a huge tree bark cave that is encrusted with flame moss that will fill the tank if i don't thin it. at night he comes out and fills up the middle and surface layers. i feed him earthworms, omega 1sinking cichlid pellets and omega 1 catfish pellets. i have a tiny internal filter that uses a sponge/spray bar and provides a gentle current, and at the other end, a 6'' long air stone that i keep a sack of ceramic biofilter media right on top so current flows through continuously. the fish loves the air bubbles and lounges with the tail half of his body in them most of the day. this summer i bought a 75 gal tank and all the fixings, but haven't set it up yet! so he will get a new tank as soon as i reinforce the dresser i will use as a stand. not sure if it will hold 700 lbs of water!
I have a 125 Convict Cichlid tank that has more fish than tank. Somehow they control the environment because I am on my second year with this tank of multiple sized cichlids. Bottom is soils sand and Gravel mix. The soil for the plants and the gravel to stop the sand from compacting. The fish are still making fry and eating fry I guess because I see fry more often than not.
A dirt-ed tank! Nice.
I've been using live plants for months now and have no ammonia or nitrite problems despite having seven 4-6" goldies in a 55 gallon tank and a quickly filling 29-gallon (3 yoyo loaches, 4 aquatic frogs, 7 white clouds, 3 cherry barbs, 4 albino corys, and soon, several cardinals). I started with amazon swords and pothos clippings, but now I have duckweed, crypts, and several plated and floating plants I can't name. I'd advise those that first stat and want to hurry and get more fish to instead get excited about plants and that will help your fishkeeping experience long-term as they will be healthier and less stressed by both environment and water quality.
Good info, do you have any videos exclusively on Cichlids?
Not just on cichlids. I have a few species profiles coming soon on apistogramma, rams, jewels, kribs
That was a convoluted way of saying "keep fish in layers and have many plants.
"expanded" way
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My little "problem" with fish in aquariums is that all the fish I like, prefer to be in the middle of the aquariums. I never really find any fish that prefer the bottom for example, and I'm not much for corydoras... My smallest aquarium is a 54L (about 14 gallon) and the biggest is 200L (about 53 gallons). I have a lot of plants and friendly, smaller rainbowfish and guppy. Any suggestion of a fish that could thrive at the lower part of any of my aquariums?
Is the loach you mentioned a kuhli, when I do a search that’s what comes up. I’m looking for something to put with my male betta that cleans the bottom of the tank. But they seem kinda colorful, would they be ok?
Yes, Kuhi Loaches. And yes, they should be just fine with a betta!
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If you have the Microsoft apps on your phone, yes. I think most androids have it defaulted
@@thedirtytank mine doesn't.
What was the name of the first goby you mention? I can't seem to find it.
There's only like 2 or 3 articles about it. It's not well known. It's the Chinese Vermillion Goby or Thou's Vermilion Goby. Goes by both
I have always thought that my tank might be considered overstocked, but now I reassured that I'm doing fine. Also, wouldn't it be fair to say that not all fish of the same length are the same with regard to bioload? For example, 10 inches worth of diminutive dwarf rasboras would be far less bioload than 10 inches of platys, correct?
Yes, 10 inches of say a phoenix Rasbora would be far less bio load than 10 platys. For sure
1 inch per gallon is BS. And it always has been.
I have 13 parrot fish and 15 medium african cichlids and 9 small african cichlids in a 55 gallon 4ft tank, with lots of clay pot, changing 20 litres water everyday, running a fx2 filter, they're eating like pig and breeding everyday morning, growing a lot ... The tank looks lively and not empty, don't listen to others and confine yourself, the only thing fish needs is lot of new water everyday and oxygen(spray bar / air stone) with good food...
That is awesome!
About three minutes in, some good comments are being made. I just want to point out that 1" fish vs a 2" fish vs a 3" fish are not merely a 1, 2, 3 ratio of bio load. Longer fish are often much larger than their length ratio would imply - and hence so is their bio load. I'm sure the video points out plants, role of substrate, perhaps not just having fish in layers but fish that eat algae, ramping up slowly...
Wouldn't it be fair to say that not all fish of the same length are the same with regard to bioload? For example, the bioload of a one inch rasbora is quite a bit less than a one inch cory who's far thicker.
Best filtration is a deep substrate not the slow growing plants like anubias , java ferns , etc .
My fish are all over the tank
Buy duckweed?
Pilates are the best fish 😂
One inch per gallon doesn't make much sense because one inch of fish is not a meaningful measure of bioload.
Right a 4 inch kuhli loach vs a 4 inch Oscar or gold fish all have different bioloads.
Overstocking works until it doesn’t. There’s a reason it’s called “overstocking”.