Am I overstocked? - 46g bowfront

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Here's what I have so far...
1 angelfish
5 marble hatchets
6 glowlite tetras
5 rosy-fin tetras
1 clown pleco
2 mystery snails
2 panda cories

I am hoping to up my panda cories to a total of five, and maybe add another angelfish. I don't know where I am as far as stocking. I have a XP2 and a AC50 running right now, I have an AC30 running on a quarantine tank, once I'm done with the quarantine tank, I will be moving that AC30 onto my 46g tank as well. The tank is not planted, but have a lot of fake plants for the fish to hide in. Water parameters have always been kept at ammonia=0, nitrIte=0, nitrAte=5. So please give me some oppinions, thank you:read:
 
nickmcmechan said:
The Angels and Plecos are too big for a 46G....
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neither angels nor clown plecos are too big for a 246G.

I think it's fully stocked, don't add anything.
 
I would add some more cories if you havn't had trouble with keeping panda's get more.
Also perhaps a couple of Otocinclus.
Otherwise I think you are good.
How is your angel with your other fish? (not picking just interested :) )
 
I used to have three angels in there...but the other two couldn't tolerate salt, along with five of my marble hatchets and two of my rosy-fin tetras. So what was left in there were just one angel, three rosy fin tetras, six glow lites, one marble hatchets, and two panda cories. It's been awhile, so I finally decided to get some friends for the loners. My angels (when I had three) only occasionally chased each other around, but never bothered anyone else, and a lot of times would find food iwth each other. Now that there's only one angel left, it's always just by himself, a lot of times i'd catch him just staring at the glass, when I walk over, he'd swim toward me and stare. I feel really bad that he's just by himself, that's why I wanna get another angel buddy for him. The marble hatchet I have in there pretty much schooled with the glow lites, but the glowlites don't even take notice of him, so I wanna get him four more buddies so he doesn't feel so rejected. I also heard that panda cories do better in a school...so three more there. And I simply really like how hte plecos look...so I decided to get a clown pleco since it's relatively small. If my choices above is okay...I would stop there anyway, I wouldn't add anymore.
 
Oh yeah, I think the pandas are relatively easy to keep. I've had them for about a month now, they're babies when I got them...about half an inch (still is that big). A lot of times they're swimming together, but I always catch them swimming up to the surface, then dive straight down, it's really cute to watch. They seem very healthy and happy, and they're the first two panda cories I've ever owned...so I'm two for two, I guess I just got lucky. And no, I didn't think angels and clown plecos were too big for a 46g tank...angels get about 6 inches in height and clown plecos are like 5 inches long when full grown. Currenlty my angel is about 3 inches tall, and the clown pleco is about 2.5 inches long
 
Angels get about 6 inches or so in length, much taller than that, possibly for some even double the body length.

While I am sure the tank could take a few more cories, I would stop at thta. Another huge cichlid would most likely cause all sorts of problems. Filtration iisn;t the issues, but room to swim can be.

The more crowded a tank becomes, the less active fish can be and the tank can end up very boring. Ever see those fish tanks in stores with 100 neon tetras. Nothing happenign in that tight space. Take the same tank with 10 neons and things will look a lot more interesting.
 
While I don't think you're overstocked (look at my 46g list...), I think adding another angel would be a bad idea as they'll get *really* aggressive if they start spawning. That, and they do get pretty big, so a second one would (IMHO) leave you overstocked.
 
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