Stocking Question

[Watcher74]

I'm still not clear or comfortable determining by myself a stocking level of a tank. So I need some help here.

If you had a 40Gallon, heavily planted tank, and 5 Boesami Rainbowfish in it, how many Cory Julii would you be able to accomodate?

 

[Leopardess]

Assuming they're the only other thing? Along with the heavy plants and a good water change routing?

You could fit 20 of them. What is the footprint of the tank? If its a taller tank, you'd obviously fit less, not because of bioload but because cories only truly utilize the foot print of a tank.

 

[Watcher74]

20!?!?!?!?!?!? Holy crap!

Urhm......ok. If.....you....were going to setup a heavily planted 40 gallon tank; Standard rectangular tank(I haven't got it yet); And you were going to put only Boesami Rainbowfish and Cory Julii in it, no other animals; Weekly water change as much needed to keep the nitrates below 20ppm; How many of each fish would be a good balanced number without overstocking?

 

[Leopardess]

LOL. You don't like my answer? I have 10 cories in my 55g along with more fish than you might think and nitrates stay around 10 ppm, sometimes needing to be dosed.

If you wanted to go light on the stocking (rememering that a TRULY heavily planted tank allows for a somehwat larger bioload) you can *easily* fit 12 of them along with your rainbowfish. Again, that somewhat depends on the footprint of the tank, but with cories it's the more the merrier

Don't know if you're looking for info, btw, but you'd find more if you spelled Boesami as "Boesmani" or "Boesemani"

 

[Watcher74]

Oops. Well I have a Boesmani Rainbowfish(1) and want to do a species tank with these two fish.

I've read that a good breeding set of the Boesmani Rainbowfish is 3 males and 2 females. But I'll increase their number a little if I can get away with it safely.

How about 8 Boesmani and 8-10 Cory Julii?

Does that sound like a good stocking level?

 

[Leopardess]

Stocking-wise, yes, it's okay. That may be high on the rainbowfish unless the tank you get can accomodate their habits of swimming back and forth. You'd want a long tank, rather than one of those 40's that are kind of like a bigger 29g...

Good luck sexing the buggers if you get them while young. It's REALLY hard to determine, IME. But, I've seen several people who only have males, or have more males than females, and it all works out okay.