125 Stocking or over done?
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Fully stocked that's for sure. Proper water changes will be needed and filter maintenance to keep them healthy.
I think it sounds good - but agree on rehoming the tinfoil - going to keep growing and needs to be in a school. Only other thing the Choc could eat the Tigers but it would depend on how old the Tigers are - my Choc was surprisingly predatory and could fit quite big fish in. Lost a school of Turquoise Rainbows to him and they were not that small at the time...
Wills
Wills
I would first judge stocking by the testing nitrate just before and after a regularly scheduled water change.
If nitrate concentration was above 5 ppm, I'd get rid of the tinfoil.
If before the next scheduled water change, nitrate levels were still above 5 ppm, I lose the tiger barbs.
If before the next water change, nitrate was still high, instead of thinning more fish, I'd double up on water change schedule frequency and volume.
But....
the thinning choices I made, are also based on eventual size of the tinfoil, and the tendency of tiger barbs to whittle away at the fin trailers of the Acarichthys
and are also based on geography, and what fish would actually be found together in nature,
it appears you may have a South American theme/biotope with the cichlids and SDs. so that's the geographic reason
but...
maybe if an Asian theme is desired, in that case, I'd lose all the the new world fish and keep the barbs
If nitrate concentration was above 5 ppm, I'd get rid of the tinfoil.
If before the next scheduled water change, nitrate levels were still above 5 ppm, I lose the tiger barbs.
If before the next water change, nitrate was still high, instead of thinning more fish, I'd double up on water change schedule frequency and volume.
But....
the thinning choices I made, are also based on eventual size of the tinfoil, and the tendency of tiger barbs to whittle away at the fin trailers of the Acarichthys
and are also based on geography, and what fish would actually be found together in nature,
it appears you may have a South American theme/biotope with the cichlids and SDs. so that's the geographic reason
but...
maybe if an Asian theme is desired, in that case, I'd lose all the the new world fish and keep the barbs