Will neons survive?

[mouse]

I have a 65 gal. community tank with the following:
1 Red Tail Black Shark
1 Bala Shark (2 more soon)
6 Tiger Barbs
3 Black Widow Tetras
3 Serpae Tetras
6 Ottos
1 Whip-Tailed Pleco
2 Clown Loaches
1 Orange Fin Loach
1 Dwarf Gourami
The tank has driftwood and live plants, and everyone gets along just fine. Would 16 neons from another tank survive
in this tank, or just provide lunch?

 

[Andy16]

Tiger barbs are mean little suckers from my experience.

 

[fishdude]

watch out for the bala shark, they can get HUGE (13 1/4 in) and then will get too large for the tank. I would also look out for the red tailed black shark because it will terorize most fish that are about 2 in smaller than it is.



heres a little formula for finding out how many fish are in your tank.

take the surface area of your tank( length times width), then divide that number by twelve for tropical freshwater, and that is the max inches of fish you can safely have in your tank.

The reason that the inche of fish to gallon formula doesnt work is because surface area determines the amount of oxygen that dissolves in the water.


so for example. My ten gallon tank has a length of 20 in, and a width of 10. So multiply 20 and 10 and you get 200, divide that by twelve and you get 16.999999999 rounded out thats about seventeen inches.

all freshwater fish need about 12 sq in of space
all coldwater need27 sq in
and all marine need 47 sq in

sertain fish though, like anabantids(gouramis and siamese fighter fish) can live in low oxygen conditions. The reason for this is that they have an auxillary breathing organ called a labyrinth. thats why siamese fighters can live in small cups and such