Overstocked?

krytan said:
I would increase your filteration by adding another filter (a canstier would be nice), filter that come in package deals often are inadequate for the tank they are sold with. I would also change your water changes to once 40-50% a week and fast your fish on that day (if you don't allready).
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It's an Aqueon Power Filter 55. It's the ones you buy off the shelf. I think it can adequately keep up.
 
Ken_Allen said:
I might buy the EXTRA large ghost shrimp at my LFS. They're the size of my entire fist with some of my wrist included. It's crazy!

My current setup is the Aqueon 55g package. Aqueon 55g filter, I do 10g water changes every 3 days.
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buy some and send me 3 of them. i'd like a few angry giant shrimps.
 
Watch out keeping corys with sharks, we tried several different times with different sharks & different corys but never in a tank larger than a 55g. The adult sharks body slammed the corys into the bottom sometimes killing them.
 
Ken_Allen said:
It's an Aqueon Power Filter 55. It's the ones you buy off the shelf. I think it can adequately keep up.
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Just a friendly tip, never rely on the aquarium size a filter advertises it can handle. Example: I have an XP3 AND an XP2 on my 55g tank. Based on the advertised filtration capacities on their packaging, that should be good for a 200g tank, but I know that would not nearly be adequate for such a tank. I'd want more than that if I had anything more than a 90g tank. Over filtration is never a bad thing, unless said filtration is so intense that it makes it physically challenging for the fish in said tank to swim.
 
Ken_Allen said:
Right now in my 55G I have...

1x Pictus Catfish
1x Rainbow Shark ( Getting rid of soon because of aggressiveness :(. )
7x Tiger Barb
2x Green Emerald Cory
2x Ghost Shrimp

Is this overstocked? Keep in mind the shark is going soon.
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I have a 29g. I have a AquaClear 70 HOB and an undergravel filter running 3 uplift tubes with 120gph powerheads driving it. Air wand in the middle, approx. 25% water change a week, etc.; This is one of my favorite tanks to watch.

That would just be the first batch of fish I would purchase for it!

But then, I like to catch a glimpse of a fish in the tank every now-and-then. I mean, in a planted tank with a fish in it, things get too boring for me ... :eek3:

Regards,
JS
 
That cat will eat anything that fits in it's mouth and it's gonna get pretty big pretty fast. And I agree that filter is nowhere near big enuff for a 55. You'll need to bump up those water changes.
 
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