Have I over filled my tank

[ecobr]

Hi, I have a 180 Litre tank and introduced to many fish to soon and as a result have high amonia levels. I am using ammo lock and doing regular water changes and hope for this to work although I have lost quite a few fish.
My question is now whether I have to many fish in my tank, I will list my fish below.

22 x Guppies
1 x Rainbow Albino Shark
1 x Bala Shark
1 x Red tail Platty
1 x Pleco
1 x Angel fish

I have lost about 2 guppies, 6 tetra, 2 Clown Loach and 1 Platty and 1 angel fish in the past 3 months.

Also some have my guppies have had babies and I can see about 5 tiny babies around one of my plants which have not yet been eaten by my Angel fish (not sure why).

Any comments will be appreciated.

 

[ecobr]

Oh and I also have one male Beta.

 

[i3k]

yea you have definitely over stocked. the bala shark needs at least a 75 gallon tank. this thing will grow over a foot easily.

 

[DragonFish71]

Don't use ammo-lock. Just do the daily water changes to get the ammonia down to .25 or under and dechlor the water. Your tank will balance out.

 

[dkpate]

And you can get some Prime water conditioner to help out with the ammonia and nitrites.

 

[cabezon]

3 months? that's a long time for a cycle. what else is going on? how is your water that you are putting in?

 

[ecobr]

I have had abit of a nightmare really, I have done regular water changes, I did another 50% water change yesterday. My PH is 7.4, Amonia still looks high although I only use one of those sticks that change colour, the colour lloks green so Amonia was high although I have been using Ammo Lock so these readings are now not relevant as Ammo Lock will still show as Amonia just not harmful. Water Temp is about 24.75. I have 1 fairly large real plant and several ornamental object. I am now getting lots of Algae although I think this is due to me keeping the light on to long which I have now changed. I am really frustrated now as I have now lost my Rainbow shark, this has been in the tank for about 2 months. Not really sure what else I can do, I still think the Nitrate Cycle has not been effective. Today most of my fish are swimming at the top of the water which is a signal for lack of oxygen. Maybe I'm just not cut out to look after fish, I feel like I have tried everything, my mate has a tank and has done almost nothing to his and had no deaths at all, he even introduced fish 1 day after setting up.

 

[ecobr]

When I do water changes, I use hot and cold water from the tap to get the temp right and I then add Nutrafin Aqua Plus to get rid of the Chlorine etc. I fill the bucket put the Nutrafin in and then put the water into the tank almost immediatley.

 

[cabezon]

Don't use ammo-lock. Just do the daily water changes to get the ammonia down to .25 or under and dechlor the water. Your tank will balance out.

+1

you might try taking the decorations out and see if you have a fish stuck in one.

 

[i3k]

do you clean your gravel when doing water changes? also, i suggest getting a liquid ammonia test kit. might want to stop using that ammolock and just do 35% water changes daily until ammonia is gone.

 

[ecobr]

Thanks guys fish seem a little better the last day or two. There is one fish that died although I never found it, I check all the decorations but no sign. Anyhow hopefully the fish will be ok now. Anyone have any suggestions for controlling the guppy babies?

 

[fishmonkey]

ussually you put them in a seperate breeding tank, like a little 10 gallon, with a sponge filter.

 

[dkpate]

Separate the males and females, then you won't have more babies.

 

[Mark Hewitt]

Separate the males and females, then you won't have more babies.

At least the males won't. The females however, might!

 

[dkpate]

That's true lol.