That website along with other websites that use calculations to determine whether or not your tank is overstocked are not 100% accurate.
Is my tank over crowded? / how bad is it?
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That website along with other websites that use calculations to determine whether or not your tank is overstocked are not 100% accurate.
i just tries to use it and half the fish i serched for didn't come up lol
hes probably annoyed at the fact you think its ok to do a water change every 4 months!!
not the smartest thing to say
My fish are perfectly fine with me doing a water change once every 4 months
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Wunnerful. Now perhaps you can give your vast experience with the species of fish that the OP has in his tanks, while you are proclaiming that everything will be "fine", and that he can keep them all in that tank.
That's the part of this site that annoys me, FAR more than a few members calling out someone as being a troll. People that have zero experience with the species of fish in question, and in this case, what, 6 months total experience in even keeping fish, telling someone such as the OP in this discussion that everything is fine. That's not helping him, or anyone else new to this site that is obviously in need of some assistance.
Trying hard to stay out of this one especially since I wrongly called the OP a troll. All I'm gonna say is unless you have a very large tank with a very small bioload, 4 months between changes is unacceptable.
It has been debated time and time again, but some say that overstocking sa/ca cichlids will keep aggression down. I mean, you have a Midas, RD, FH, green terrors all stacked on top of each other, and they all look fine. I'd be willing to bet a shiny nickel that if you got a 180 and threw them all in there, they would each try to establish separate territories, and tear each others to ribbons trying to protect their space from each other.
Correct, overstocking most cichlids will keep aggression down - but it's best to utilize that type of set up in a tank size that's appropriate for the species in question. In this case a 75 gallon is hardly large enough for long term success, with all of these fish - even if water changes are stepped up.
I wouldn't get anything less than a 180 gallon. You're way overstocked. The knife's growth is clearly stunted as is your other fish. I'd imagine your nitrates are always really high. I hope you're doing large water changes a few times a week.
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I wouldn't say that a 75 is big enough to house all these fish for life, either. Most of those fish do best as solos or pairs, anyway. However, his seem to be doing fine with each other, which brings us to cichlid's personalities, in the sense that they are all individuals and rubber stamp rules are hard to follow. Unless he is going to pick his favorite single or pair and get rid of the rest, I think a change in any direction ( less fish, bigger footprint) will result in disaster. If it were my tank (although I would not ever have all those fish housed together at all), I would add a sump and a heavy drip and leave it alone until something happened. If it ain't broke...
