newfound77951
Aquarium Advice Addict
There are a lot of posts in this forum asking whether or not the tank in question is overstocked. Obviously there is no hard and fast answer, and the tank setup and level of care has a lot to do with it, but what "rules" are people using to determine what is overstocked and what isn't? I've always followed the surface area rule (ie an x cm fish gets a certain amount of surface area) laid out in Axelrod's mini-atlas which seems to work for me, but it usually gives me more fish than what most of the opinion in here would say is OK.