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Is my tank overstocked?


Geoff kuiken
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Hello everyone. I have a 24 gallon aquarium.  I currently have 4 honey gouramis, 4 julii corydoras, 2 guppies, 1 sword tail, 1 albino bristlenose pleco, and approx 15 shrimp.  I don’t see any aggression, the odd time I see the gourami chase another gourami but they seem to alternate who does the chasing.  Never any biting or nipping even during feeding time.  Here is a photo of the tank in hopes it helps.  Am I overstocked?  Understocked?  Neutral?

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I think you're fine. Key is what filtration you're running, how consistently you're maintaining the tank (water changes, etc.), and taking care not to over feed. As long as you're up on that, you can jam tons of fish into a tank (shhh . . . don't tell the internet!) 

Here's a 20 gal we used for grow out for reference . . . Every fish is doing great, many now sold. Discus was happy as a lark. 

 

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1 hour ago, Fish Folk said:

I think you're fine. Key is what filtration you're running, how consistently you're maintaining the tank (water changes, etc.), and taking care not to over feed. As long as you're up on that, you can jam tons of fish into a tank (shhh . . . don't tell the internet!) 

Here's a 20 gal we used for grow out for reference . . . Every fish is doing great, many now sold. Discus was happy as a lark. 

 

Ok cool. Thank you for the info.  

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