Is my tank overstock

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tobegr said:
not crowded at all !
Last year I had 15 six inches red belly piranhas in my 55 gallons. They were doing fine.
Just observe the health of your fishes,don't listen to those words saying " wow it's a ...king overstocked tank" lol
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Hello; Are you being serious?
 
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tobegr said:
not crowded at all !
Last year I had 15 six inches red belly piranhas in my 55 gallons. They were doing fine.
Just observe the health of your fishes,don't listen to those words saying " wow it's a ****ing overstocked tank" lol
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Terrible advice.

While it is possible to maintain a tank with extremely high levels of stock, it is also extremely difficult. One cannot simply observe the tank and tell the health of it. It requires a constant flow of fresh water and tons of monitoring. Even the JDM tanks that have tons of fish in a small display tend to have huge sumps to add water volume. It's not about the size of the tank so much as it is the volume of water after all.

Wow this is such bad advice. It makes my head hurt.

F Fish100 thank you for seeking proper advice. That^ wasn't proper advice. Consider upgrading or selling off some fish. As they grow, you're going to find it extremely difficult to maintain water quality. Especially with your poop log... I mean pleco. Lol
 
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Chicxulub said:
Terrible advice.

While it is possible to maintain a tank with extremely high levels of stock, it is also extremely difficult. One cannot simply observe the tank and tell the health of it. It requires a constant flow of fresh water and tons of monitoring. Even the JDM tanks that have tons of fish in a small display tend to have huge sumps to add water volume. It's not about the size of the tank so much as it is the volume of water after all.

Wow this is such bad advice. It makes my head hurt.

F Fish100 thank you for seeking proper advice. That^ wasn't proper advice. Consider upgrading or selling off some fish. As they grow, you're going to find it extremely difficult to maintain water quality. Especially with your poop log... I mean pleco. Lol
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My friend has been already keeping 50 caribes in his 200 gallons for several years. Every fish is doing fine. But he does have a very good filtration system.
 
tobegr said:
I'm serious. But it was just my experience. Sure he doesn't need to follow this. Everyone has his own ideas of keeping fishes. I had several crowded tanks,but I never had a fish died for that.
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Living does equate to thriving.
 
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tobegr said:
not crowded at all !
Last year I had 15 six inches red belly piranhas in my 55 gallons. They were doing fine.
Just observe the health of your fishes,don't listen to those words saying " wow it's a ****ing overstocked tank" lol
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oh...my...that's just not good.
 
predatorkeeper87 said:
oh...my...that's just not good.
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Reminds me of a thread a while back, might have been an infamous member known as samarth raphel or something; and i kid you not, they literally had 3 oscars, dovii, flowerhorns, pleco, and more, squashed into a 15-20 gallon tank; it was insane.

I'm gonna find that thread again if i can, it was beyond comprehension
 
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