Overcrowding

gregg604

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Dear yashinfan,


-12 Goldfish in a pond
-10 Zebra danios in my NEW 30G.
-90+ fry in my 23 gallon tank
-90+ Zebra Danio fry in a 10-gallon

I think your 23 gallon and 10 gallon with 90+ Zebra Danio might be a little overcrowded. The rule goes "an inch of fish per gallon..."
 
fry are baby fish. These are only raised in this tank until they get bigger and are able to be sold.


aaron
 
That should not even be a rule - it is very bad and completely misleading. There are several other factors to overcrowding. You wouldn't put a 10-inch fish in a 10-gal, for instance. I won't go into more detail here, but search the forum for things like "capacity", "overcrowding", and such. You should find out quite a bit more in previous posts.
 
Fry guy

Just joking around with Yashinfan, although not that funny now that I think about it... This post was supposed to be a reply, not in the general forum. My mistake. You guys don't miss a beat. However, I stand behind the inch per gallon thing as a means of determining whether your tank is too full. Naturally a large fish is the exception to the estimate.
 
Hehe, I guess I have to stand up for myself. The tank actually looks EMPTY. (10 gallon) The 23 is also very empty as well, the fish stay to one side of it and can swim about freely as they please. I'll admit that the 10 gallon is probably not the best place for them to be, but all the fish are healthy and happy and I haven't had one death in that tank!

It is, of course, a temporary setup. I don't know many people who will transpot their fry to other tanks while they are still very young. I bought the 30 gallon tank so I could free up the 23 gallon and split the fish evenly between the two. Oddly enough, the fish in the 10 gallon seem to be growing faster than those in the 23 gallon.

If you're all still not satisfied and thinking I am abusing my fish, than I will go through the trouble of taking a picture of my tank for you to see and judge if there is not enough space for the fish. It's funny because anyone who looks at my tanks goes, "Those fish are so tiny! Why don't you put something else in there??"

I'm a good fishkeeper in most respects, I test my water for amonia, and the pH before and after most water changes. I do a partial water change 1-2 times per week, feed 3 times daily, monitor temperature, give 15 hours of light to the fish, etc..
 
Originally posted by gregg604
However, I stand behind the inch per gallon thing as a means of determining whether your tank is too full. Naturally a large fish is the exception to the estimate.

As are any other fishes which don't have the body shape of a Neon Tetra...
 
So ChilDawg are you saying that you think that 10, one inch danios would be the most fish you could but in a 10 gallon tank?
 
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