Hello friends! New to the hobby but thriving and loving it (mostly due to the amazing advice and teaching from Aquarium CoOp!! 🥰)
I currently have a 29 gallon, long, acrylic aquarium that I found at GoodWill a few months back for $9.99!
In this am keeping:
3 black Molly’s (all female, spawned from 3 original Molly’s in my daughters tank)
3 fairly small neon tetras (LFS)
6 Cory’s (3 Julii and 3 Panda that all stick together, (LFS)
1 Nerite snail
Many, many...rams horn snails.
Right half of tank is sand substrate with large rocks and drift wood, planted with Java fern, and a couple different types of anubias’s. Left half of the tank has Fluval planting type substrate and is planted with more anubias’s, Cryptocorne wendetti green, a small bit of Hydrocotyle tripartita Japan that’s just maybe starting to propitiate, and 12” tall x 5” base castle decoration that has anubias and some sword plants attached to form some cover and cave system type area.
I run one medium size Aquarium CoOp sponge filter on sand side of tank, and one bubble stone behind castle plant feature, heater set to 82°, and a Nicrew top of tank light, half a cap of Seachem Flourish Excel every other day.
My big question is...is this aquarium under stocked? I am happy with the fish in there now and definitely don’t want to crowd anyone, BUT I wouldn’t mind adding a few guppies IF it would still be ok. Or maybe just one male guppy to keep the female Molly’s company? Or maybe one more show piece larger type of fish? OR am I at a healthy capacity where I am at?
In this sort of set up, planted and 29 gallon long aquarium, what would be your max number of community fish and ratios?
Thanks so Much!
Nancy