Overstocking= putting or having too many fish in a tank.
How do you know when there are too many?
You know you're overstocked when:
"You toss in just one more fish and it bounces.
You toss in just one more fish and the others toss it back.
You toss in just one more fish and the floor sags.
You turn on the tank light and the bottom of the tank is still dark.
You remove all the fish and the water level drops 75%.
Sardine cans begin to look roomy.
You can't do a 25% water change without the fish on top getting dry.
All the fish swim to one side of the tank and the other side rises an inch.
Only a filter made by boeing can handle the job.
You can do a 50% water change with a thimble.
Your ammonia eating bacteria have grown to 5 lbs. each.
Your fish beg you to flush them down the toilet.
The cat walks across the top of the tank and you have no lid on it."
(From "The Complete Idiot"s Guide to Saltwater Aquariums" by Mike Wickham.)
AND:
Your fish choose to spawn on the outer sides of the tank
Your tank looks like a Japanese swimming pool
Your discus sleep in CD towers
The convicts keep breaking out
Your stingray has "Abortion now!" sign on his tail
The owner of your favorite Chinese restaurant won't talk to you
Your kids rearrange the fish instead of playing tangram
The lid of your tank needs clasps and is harder to close than Barbie's suitcase
Your snakehead asks if he may sleep in your bed
You have to force in the heater but it keeps jumping back out
SPCA, Greenpeace and Vitaliy camp in your backyard
THE TRUST bows down to you
All other websites banned you and you are stuck with MFK
(by myself)