Hello all, I'd just like some opinions about my community tank... and why it works when it doesn't seem like it should.
The tank is 48x22.5x12.5 on the inside/with the water level where it is. This is about 58 gallons of water. There is roughly 10 gallons worth of rock, gravel and wood in there. That's about 48 gallons of water.
Stock list:
5 Large weather loaches (full-bodied, about 6 inches long)
3 Small weather loaches (skinny and young, about 4-4.5 inches)
8 Kuhli loaches (some are bigger and more full-bodied than other, all are 3-3.5 inches long)
2 Starry-night eels (long and thin, like two BIG kuhlis together. About 6 inches long each).
5 Glass Catfish (about 3 inches long)
7 Cherry Barbs (about 1.5 inches each and fat)
12ish Guppies (ranging from little males to 2" females)
8ish Guppy juuvies (small)
3 Otto Catfish (1.5" each)
1 Tadpole of mysterious origins (body is about 1.5" and tail is another 2". Eating my plants, lil bugger.)
The tank is heavily planted, using pothos externally. It has an AQ 70 and an AQ 30 filter placed on the right and back-left of the tank to promote a tranquil/lazy whirlpool-like flow. I water change ever week to two weeks (rarely two), usually about 1.5 weeks.
I have had no deaths in this tank for a long time (save one tadpole recently, but probably due to unrelated reasons). My recent water test after a three-day wait from my last water change showed wonderful results in nitrites/rates/ammonia. I've just recently done a very large re-aquascape with no ill-effects, and just got HO lights for it.
* How can such a large stockload be okay with less than 50 gallons of water?
* Is it possible to add more Kuhli loaches and Glasscats safely since there doesn't seem to be any wear on the bioload?
* I seem to have a lot of black brush algae, hair algae, and green algae which I'm trying to fight with waterchanges now, and possibly with excel if I can get some. If my tank is so low-nutrients, why do I have algae in such mass?
Any opinions will be appreciated.
The tank is 48x22.5x12.5 on the inside/with the water level where it is. This is about 58 gallons of water. There is roughly 10 gallons worth of rock, gravel and wood in there. That's about 48 gallons of water.
Stock list:
5 Large weather loaches (full-bodied, about 6 inches long)
3 Small weather loaches (skinny and young, about 4-4.5 inches)
8 Kuhli loaches (some are bigger and more full-bodied than other, all are 3-3.5 inches long)
2 Starry-night eels (long and thin, like two BIG kuhlis together. About 6 inches long each).
5 Glass Catfish (about 3 inches long)
7 Cherry Barbs (about 1.5 inches each and fat)
12ish Guppies (ranging from little males to 2" females)
8ish Guppy juuvies (small)
3 Otto Catfish (1.5" each)
1 Tadpole of mysterious origins (body is about 1.5" and tail is another 2". Eating my plants, lil bugger.)
The tank is heavily planted, using pothos externally. It has an AQ 70 and an AQ 30 filter placed on the right and back-left of the tank to promote a tranquil/lazy whirlpool-like flow. I water change ever week to two weeks (rarely two), usually about 1.5 weeks.
I have had no deaths in this tank for a long time (save one tadpole recently, but probably due to unrelated reasons). My recent water test after a three-day wait from my last water change showed wonderful results in nitrites/rates/ammonia. I've just recently done a very large re-aquascape with no ill-effects, and just got HO lights for it.
* How can such a large stockload be okay with less than 50 gallons of water?
* Is it possible to add more Kuhli loaches and Glasscats safely since there doesn't seem to be any wear on the bioload?
* I seem to have a lot of black brush algae, hair algae, and green algae which I'm trying to fight with waterchanges now, and possibly with excel if I can get some. If my tank is so low-nutrients, why do I have algae in such mass?
Any opinions will be appreciated.
