Over stocked?

[ehh]

45 gallons.

Right now it has a convict, 7 tiger barbs and a 5-6" cat fish. The cat fish is done growing.

Most of my barbs are males. The couple females in there are being chased pretty hard.
I have access to 6 more females for free.

Too much?

 

[axs377]

Seems like you should be fine depending on the tank dimensions.

 

[ehh]

its 48x18x12. custom built.

 

[Allan01230]

youre fine you could even add a few more barbs if you want to.

 

[Manu8__too]

Totally fine, ehh. Just keep up with your wc's. Throw in a big handful of water wisteria to help with N and provide additional cover.

 

[ehh]

sounds good. i think because i mostly have males the dominate male is super aggressive. chasing the life out of everyone. i figured not only will more fish help with that but more females should help too, right?
that tank is going to have so much movement haha.

 

[ehh]

convict360 whats your take on this?

 

[convict360]

convict360 whats your take on this?

I'd go for it I'm willing to bet you'll see more passivity in the tigers, who'll hopefully avoid nipping the convicts trailers, really good footprint to allow the convict breathing space too.

 

[ehh]

Thanks everyone.

 

[ehh]

just an update on what i decided to do here...

i went to the store where i was going to get these ladies at and in that tank they had 20 or so green tiger barbs and a few albino (i guess) tiger barbs. they have had all these fish for months. the albino ones were all getting their butts whooped in that tank and a few of them were even hanging out at the top of the water, kind of side ways. not sick but just trying not to be noticed.... so i bought all the albino ones lol.

ill get some pictures of the new additions maybe this week but it'll probably wait until next weekend.