am i overstocked

[adamclement]

Hi,

I have a 30 gallon - 3ft tank, planted with 3 amazon swords, lots of camboba, some crypts, some java ferns and whorled pennywort, with some amazon frogbit floating around.

Im using ae aqua carbon with 2 t5s for lighting. Filter is an Ehiem 2313 external canister. Getting good growth from plants....

livestock i have is:

1 apple snail
10 assasin snails
1 SAE
3 guppies
2 albino cories
8 panda cories
8 sailfin mollies

All seem happy, nitrite and ammonia are at zero, nitrates around 15-20...

am i overstocked?

i have been offered a few platies....would this be pushing it?


adam

 

[NYgiantsRP]

I would say you are good. Good mix of top, middle, and bottom. Maybe even some shrimp would help clean-up. They have a very small bio-load. Just keep up on the water changes.

I have had 2 tanks for about 4 years (30 & 65) setup in all different ways (cichlids, planted, gourami ect.) and almost always have been labeled "overstocked" and never had a problem with test levels or disease. As long as you keep up on water chages.

 

[bruinsbro1997]

IMO your panda cories need a bigger school.
If I'm reading that right, it says eight mollies??? That's a no. I only had one in a thirty gallon and it was the biggeset poop machine of them all, I can't imagine what eight could do.
IMO I think your SAE should be in a school too, but that takes a bigger tank.
JMO.

 

[NoMoreGoldFish]

Panda and albino corys will school loosely together, there's enough albino corys in the tank for the the two pandas to hang out with, they won't really be stressed.

 

[adamclement]

hi.

am looking at re-homing some of the mollies.

was told at pet shop that mollies should only be kept in groups of 6 or more (like a skooling fish).

will they be happy if there's only 2 or 3 in the tank...?