I've been looking at stocking threads and articles for a while and I gathered absolutely nothing from them... So many different opinions and tips, I'm not sure what to believe. I was hoping someone here could help.
After a recent trip to my LFS I ended up caving in to the salesman and came home with more fish than I wanted... At the moment I have:
15 Harlequin Rasboras
10 Neon Tetras
6 Lemon Tetras
8 Bleeding Heart Tetras
2 teenage Angelfish, not huge, but not tiny either
3 Ancistrus fish
1 Dwarf Gourami
The tank is a heavily planted 55 gallon, the filter I'm running is a 160GPH canister filter (Eheim EF4), I'm using Siporax ceramics bio-media and sponges and some vat as filtration. The tank is cycled.
Other than the Angels and the Neon Tetras all fish are fairly tiny and young right now. 1 day in and the fish are behaving normally.
I'm a newb and I'm seriously worried that I overstocked. I was told that this aquarium can handle all these fish easily, but some salesmen will say anything to sell their crap...
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
After a recent trip to my LFS I ended up caving in to the salesman and came home with more fish than I wanted... At the moment I have:
15 Harlequin Rasboras
10 Neon Tetras
6 Lemon Tetras
8 Bleeding Heart Tetras
2 teenage Angelfish, not huge, but not tiny either
3 Ancistrus fish
1 Dwarf Gourami
The tank is a heavily planted 55 gallon, the filter I'm running is a 160GPH canister filter (Eheim EF4), I'm using Siporax ceramics bio-media and sponges and some vat as filtration. The tank is cycled.
Other than the Angels and the Neon Tetras all fish are fairly tiny and young right now. 1 day in and the fish are behaving normally.
I'm a newb and I'm seriously worried that I overstocked. I was told that this aquarium can handle all these fish easily, but some salesmen will say anything to sell their crap...
Any advice would be very much appreciated.