Is my tank overstock

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Sounds like a amateur question but I have wondered lately if my tank is over stocked due to seeing all the fish fully grown. Plz let me no what you think.

70 gallon tank

2 blood parrots
1 jack Dempsey
6 tiger barbs
1 common Pleco
1 striped Raphael catfish
 
What are the deminsions? Blood parrots are hit or miss. Seen calm ones and I've seen crazy ones. I've also seen ones there are huge.
 
"If you have to ask...." :)
 
Well if you use aqadvisor as a starting point, it does say you are at 162% stocking level for adult fish.

Warning: Your selected species may eventually require 315% of your aquarium space. You may need to deal with territorial aggressions later on. Try removing some of (Blood Parrot, Rocio octofasciatum, Platydoras costatus, Pterygoplichthys pardalis) or get a larger tank.
 
Sounds like a amateur question but I have wondered lately if my tank is over stocked due to seeing all the fish fully grown. Plz let me no what you think.

70 gallon tank

2 blood parrots
1 jack Dempsey
6 tiger barbs
1 common Pleco
1 striped Raphael catfish

What are the dimensions? Do you get fighting? If no fighting, its arguable that you can maintain it with water changes
 
not crowded at all !
Last year I had 15 six inches red belly piranhas in my 55 gallons. They were doing fine.
Just observe the health of your fishes,don't listen to those words saying " wow it's a ****ing overstocked tank" lol
 
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