How many cichlids per gallon of water?

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Yeah I never thought about the possibility of it getting worse if taking out a couple. I guess I am over planning for the future.
 
Somewhere I read, a long time ago, is best to minimum use 10 gallons for every 1 inch of fish. That was for large growing cichlids. so 100 gallons for a 10" bruiser. You can keep more in less water, but this is for swimming space, health and to avoid fights. In the wild some fish claim up like 20 square feet, of territory. But that for breeding. I am sure you can keep a 18" Dovi, in a 75 gallon, with no problems if you have great filtering, and water quality.
 
JoeFatFish;3188454; said:
Somewhere I read, a long time ago, is best to minimum use 10 gallons for every 1 inch of fish. That was for large growing cichlids. so 100 gallons for a 10" bruiser. You can keep more in less water, but this is for swimming space, health and to avoid fights. In the wild some fish claim up like 20 square feet, of territory. But that for breeding. I am sure you can keep a 18" Dovi, in a 75 gallon, with no problems if you have great filtering, and water quality.
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You can drive a car w/ your feet too but that don't make it a good idea. lol
 
TwistedPenguin;3187719; said:
The general rule of thumb I use is a minimum of 5 g water per inch of fish. More is always better though, of course. That's bio-load only with 1 50-75% water change per week. If you don't want to change water that often then the 'rule' doesn't count. The biggest problem with SA/CA Cichlids is their territoriality (that's a word, I looked it up lol). Some of the aggressive ones don't care that they have the entire 6' tank-they're not going to allow any other cichlid in there, period.
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i thought the rule was 1g per an inch of fish, so 30 gallons u can keep 3 fishes. for cichlids, the width of the tank has to be bigger than the cichlid's maximum length.
Somewhere I read, a long time ago, is best to minimum use 10 gallons for every 1 inch of fish. That was for large growing cichlids. so 100 gallons for a 10" bruiser. You can keep more in less water, but this is for swimming space, health and to avoid fights. In the wild some fish claim up like 20 square feet, of territory. But that for breeding. I am sure you can keep a 18" Dovi, in a 75 gallon, with no problems if you have great filtering, and water quality.
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u can make 20 gallon per 1 inch/a river, fishes will be happier but this is impossible for a home aquarium.
 
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