Brackish Monster Addition

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its not overstocked. Maybe if i only did monthly water changes it would be, but it has a skimmer and like the guy above me said the stone fish moves about as often as you must seen your fish in a tank that big. which is almost never. and the one cat is 3" long but that is from nose to tip of tail and it has the girth of a popsicle stick so its not doin a whole lot, not to mention im sure pretty soon he will be gone too seeing he is the same size as the other. The puffers are most of the load but i have a 9inch oscar at home so i think i can handle 3" puffer waste. I know that eventually it will be overstocked as they grow but like i said before this tank is only for now and wont house them for their entire life.

The more i think about it all i really want is one good clean up man who can take care of the mess the puffers leave. Any Suggestions? needs to eat almost anything and everything as far as scraps on the bottom
 
Please post your nitrates. What's the SG of that tank? Please do not add any more to that bioload. I wrote the article on GSPs, published in Tropical Fish Hobbiest. I know GSPs. Your tank is grossly overstocked.
 
it is. i didn't think my 20 gal was over stock i had 1xsilver needle fish 6" 2xbala sharks 5" 4xangle fish4" but it defitly was your tank is like mine was most SW fish need more room.
 
Almost all of your fish were bigger than mine and you had 7 of them in a tank thats a 1/3 smaller than mine, Thats a different story! im soon to be down to just five fish 3 of which are not over 3" and 2 that never move and have the metabolism and bioload of a rosie red (exageration obviously but you get the point).

the tank is fine. when i say 3" i mean barely and thats from mouth to tip of the tail. they school around together and get alone fine.

I appreciate the information and the concern but the fish are doing fine and very active and much much more healthy now then they were or would most likley ever be (bought them from petco where 7 of them were living in a 12X10X10inch freshwater plexy container and half of them were laying on the bottom and either pale or blackish) so please get off my back i did them a favor and i really like my fish and take good care of them.

Anyways for anyone who wants to contribute to what im looking for, im now just wondering whats a cool brackish fish that can clean up after my puffers to finish off my tank and replace my shark cats?
 
I guess you're not listening. No more bioload to that tank. What are the nitrates?
 
I think the fact that no one else is answering you should be a hint. Although fairly new to this forum, I am highly respected in the puffer community (you can Google my name). I have owned & ran the #1 puffer forum for the past 10 years, written countless articles, including all the pufferfish profiles for the book: The Encyclopedia of Exotic Tropcal Fishes, published with authors like Axelrod & many other fish experts. I guarantee you, if you posted this in my forum, they'd be all over you. 1 GSP to that tank--that's it. Your fish will start getting sick & dying due to stress/lowered immune systems from the high bioload. "Swimming room" is not the determination to whether a tank is overstocked or not. Nitrates are a good indication. The fact that you refuse to post your nitrate level, shows me you have no idea what it is & that's a problem in itself.
 
Pufferpunk;1141044; said:
Way too many fish in that tank. You already have enough bioload for a 150g tank. No more tank mates. I'd start finding homes for most of those fish.
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I believe if this statement is indeed correct, that 99.9% of the people on this site have WAY overpopulated tanks..........

Obviously filtration must not play a big part in determining the bioload a tank is capable of handling?
 
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