Which fish to relocate

[sfavor]

Hi everyone. I have a way overstocked 29 gal long tank. (3 lemon tetras, 4 male guppies, 2 gold dojos, 2 salt & pepper corys, 2 panda corys, 2 zebra danios, 1 zebra loach, 1 gae, 2 ruby platies, 4 or 5 ghost shrimp.) I know that is way more fish than should be in there. I have somehow been making it work. So I have a 10 gal tank that I want to move some of them to. I am just looking for some input.

On a not unrelated note one of my Zebra danios is super pregnant and has been for quite some time, upwards of 2 months. I don't know what I should do to motivate her to drop those little ones. I had her in the small tank by herself for a while but that didn't seem to help. I'm kind of at a loss for what to do with the smaller tank. What do you guys think would be the best use of it?

 

[PoppaRyno]

They dont get pregnant. They are egg scatterers. Move the guppies and the shrimp to the 10gl.

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[sinibotia]

Rehome the dojos. They get WAY way too big for a 29. And need groups of 5

 

[sfavor]

Thanks. The loaches are babies still. I figure I've got some time.


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[sinibotia]

Unlike most loaches, dojos grow pretty quickly.

 

[ImACoolguy]

Unlike most loaches, dojos grow pretty quickly.

I can attest to this mine grew like 6 inches in a year LOL


Caleb

 

[sinibotia]

I would rehome the zebra loach as well, actually. They're slow-growing but need groups of 5 to be happy. Sometimes loaches kept by themselves will become aggressive to other fish. And a group of 5 would massively overstock your tank as it is right now.

Then just add more to your other groups of fish (increase tetras, danios and corydoras to 5 of each) and you'll be ok on stocking IMO.