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You are severely overstocked, but imo, not to the point of killing your fish directly from overcrowding. A few years back, when the "JDM" style was extremely popular, no one would have thought twice about a setup like this being overstocked, especially given its dimensions. If you want to keep all the parrots, you just need make sure that your water change schedule is keeping up with the waste.
 
zapantha said:
It's called a pleco- it's gonna grow a lot more- and those two silvers are gonna gain another foot or so in length so it won't look so empty later on. I mean or you could just up your water change and filtration game? Or maybe add some nice driftwood and hard scape to fill up space.


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I agree with adding some decorations and substrate to fill up space. You could make it look so cool. But I'm extremely partial to decorated tanks.


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If you have a common pleco then expect it to get 10-12" for most of the common species, however if it's a gibby which is another common species it'll get 16-20". Also, plecos aren't "cleaning fish" and they create a far bigger mess than the amount of algae and detritus they may eat.
 
From the picture you posted it looks like there's also some kind of gar, an angel, a dat and possibly even an oscar that you didn't mention so that would have you even more over stocked. Do you ever test your water?
 
Heres what you need to do...sell me the tank and that gar that wasn't mentioned in the list, and that will fix the problem.

my stupid comments aside, get rid of the bloods, get another filter asap, and did I actually read you only do WC's every 3 weeks with that stock? Every week, 50-60% at least is what should be happening. Get rid of the Plecos (sucker fish) because they make a waaaaaaaaaay bigger mess than they will ever contribute to the cleaning of the tank. I can almost guarantee your ammonia/nitrites are high.
 
Yes, I did take the water to the fish store for test,they said it fine, and also my tank have no smell,i also have the UV light conect with the sump, but I think I have to move some fish out
 
I think it looks pretty cool but I'd definitely double up on filtration and get rid of about half of the bp's.

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Tomtom1 said:
Yes, I did take the water to the fish store for test,they said it fine, and also my tank have no smell,i also have the UV light conect with the sump, but I think I have to move some fish out
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What were all the water parameters?
 
Not one person who commented mentioned the fact that he is running a sump. What kind of GPH runs through it? And what kind of media are you running inside it. In my personal opinion with a decent sump pushing a decent turnover, an fx5, and a 405 your filtration is more than adequate. But you SHOULD be doing atleast weekly waterchanges of 50%. If you perform 50% waterchanges once a week i believe you will be fine.

By looking at the arowana's fins and the other fish it does not seem like you have any aggression issues so stress shouldn't really be a factor as parrots are generally fish that get packed into tanks.

Just my 2cents
 
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