Am i overstocked? I want opinions

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Ok 29 gallon medium planted tank, double filtered turnover rate is about 6x per hour

1 african butterfly fish
2 hatchet fish
4 bleading heart tetras
1 firemouth- still really small about 1 inch
1 clown loach- going to be re homed
1 leopard sailfin pleco- 3 inches going to be rehomed
1 candy stripe pleco
1 rubber lip pleco
1 farlowella catfishe
1 gold chinese algea eater
1 snail

The plants keep the nitrates under 20 ppm but i still do 50-75 percent water changes once a week


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Not too bad. I would get rid of the Chinese Algae Eater, the Firemouth, the Sailfin Pleco and CL (you already plan to).
 
fishe said:
Ok 29 gallon medium planted tank, double filtered turnover rate is about 6x per hour

1 african butterfly fish
2 hatchet fish
4 bleading heart tetras
1 firemouth- still really small about 1 inch
1 clown loach- going to be re homed
1 leopard sailfin pleco- 3 inches going to be rehomed
1 candy stripe pleco
1 rubber lip pleco
1 farlowella catfishe
1 gold chinese algea eater
1 snail

The plants keep the nitrates under 20 ppm but i still do 50-75 percent water changes once a week


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Well, assuming you rehome the fish you say are going to be, PLUS the chinese algae eater that sounds fine. Chinese algae eaters get 8-10" and males can be territorial and cantankerous as adults.

But you also have some schooling fish in very small groups, bad news for the long term. Schooling fish should be in groups of 6+. So the hatchets and the bleeding hearts need to be expanded.

I think with all those plecos though it may be an overcrowding issue, but not a waste issue considering your filtration and water change routine.
 
Im not sure if its a chinese algea eater, it was sold as a golden algea eater but i just assumed it was the same fish diff color. I had the hatchets in a group of three and they never schooled and the two killed the third, ive never heard of agressive hatchets. I bought 4 bh tetras and then i bought another to add and they rejected the 5th and it randomly died one day


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I'd say you're heading in the right direction, to echo the posters above me.

With the algae eater, if you're not sure of species just post a pic on here and I'm sure somebody will ID it for you. And you can always grow it out and just rehome if it approaches too large of a size.
 
watch the butterfly they get good sized and have big mouths. ive seen them eat smaller tetras. if the 2 hatchets get along ide leave well enought alone. but agree with the above removals you are planning and the gold algae eater, not as bad as the caes usually but can get bossy and eat plants not just algae. if you want a good algae eater i love my suwellia loach, hes 100% business. he does chase the guppies but never hurts anyone. its pretty funny. he keeps my 37 tall algae free with 2 small nerite snails. and they are a neat small oddball. think they also go under the name borno sucker, a few different varients available.
 
Im not too woried about the butterfly, he never leaves the top and the tetras never go up there and their too big for him, same with the hatchets. I didnt get the gold algea eater for algae, just cuz he was 1$ lol. The farlowella takes care of all of the algae and hees a really nice oddball


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