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That first one danroach posted would hardly survive on twice daily 50% water changes! Jeez!

Working at a pet store I hear my share of overstocking. Usually it's plecos and/or goldfish in very small aquariums. Last night there was a family with a goldfish in a 1 or 3 gallon tank who wanted an algae eater. I told them that adding another fish to that tank would be a very bad idea... suggested that goldfish grow BIG and need a lot of room, and that many people use a large tupperware tank... still wanted to get something for that little tank (I told them better fish for if their goldfish died, too) They were going for either two more goldfish, an algae eater, or a tadpole... fortunately we closed and they left empty-handed.

There is another person at the store who is occasionally in aquatics who would have sold it to them.

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A couple, but most of them don't.

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That looks quite Photoshopped... notice how the fish don't cast shadows on each other...

I don't know about you but I see fish casting shadows on each other...

That looks quite Photoshopped... notice how the fish don't cast shadows on each other...

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thats gotta be a temp. solution or a fake picture

I saw a tank that looked very much like that at a lfs recently. It was disgusting.. it was a large tank 125 gallons or so, but every fish in it was about a foot and some change long and there were at LEAST 20 of them.

That tank isn't the least bit attractive. I wonder if some people can be fish collectors like some people collect dogs and/or cats that they cannot adequately take care of?

ya shinigami that tanks sick i dont think i've seen worse well mabe BUT those are gars right!

Those overstocking stories aren't bad compared to some stuff I've seen. Here is a link to some pics that someone scanned from a magazine. I believe this to be the second most overstocked tank I have ever seen. I have seen another tank with an Arapaima that was nearly equal in length to the tank it was being kept in, and it was in with a number of other fish that just filled up the rest of the tank; I can't find that pic to show you, but it's really sick.

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

I was wondering if anyone had any crazy stocking stories to tell us? I have three:
70 gallon corner ( small surface area )
- tiger shovelnose catfish ( 6" )
- mag. cichlid ( 5-6" )
- oscar ( 5" )
- pitus ( 5" )
- pleco ( 8" )
- kenyi ( 4" )
- convict ( 4" )
- 2 bala sharks ( 6" )

20 gallon
- 4 yellow labs ( 3" )

10 gallon
- 2 red bellied piranha ( 3-4" )

and

I have a oscar, a puffer and a ghost knife. I
have them all in a 20 gallon tank.

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] I have a
] 10-gallon tank set up for tropical fish (since July 3rd), I have 2
] clown loaches, 2 leopard danios, 2 marble mollies, 2 gold swordtails
] and one alge eater.

and this:



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4 zebra danios
3 neon tetras
6 glolights
4 neon rainbows
2 sword tails
4 small platies
1 small apple snail
2 plecostomus


this is what mine has now.. & it is only a 10 gallon tank ..
also 6 live plants... & two small plastic ones & some on my artificial log ..
Linda M.



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I've just seen the following message on a yahoo fish group:

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A tank can hold as many fish as yours if you keep up with maintenance and keep checking water quality and also have more then adequate filtration.

My 25 gallon has:
10 zebra danios
5 cherry barbs
3 neon tetras
4 glolights
2 neon rainbows
5 corydoras
5 hockey stick tetras
1 amano shrimp
6 sword tails
9-10 small platies
5 full size platies
1 small albino red finned shark
1 bolivian ram
10 small apple snails
10+ MTS
1 golden nugget pleco.

I see many eyebrows raised??? Yes, this is way overstocked.. infact, it would put one of the most over stocked tanks in the world to shame but it is stable enough. Not an easy thing to manage the stability. It has a eheim 2213 canister filter, Juwel compact 600lph power filter and 30-40% weekly water changes. Plants like hygrophylla polysperma, amazon swords, vallis,
java ferns and moss, few surviving echinodorous tennelus and echinodorous parvifolius.

Possibility of everything is there but then... you have to keep up with it. Not something everyone can manage.

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yowzers

I had a dream last night where I bought 6 clown loaches for my (already slightly overstocked) 25 galon tank.

Got them home and thought "what the hell did I get all these for??" and started panicking!

I've personally seen:
1) Six bala sharks (ranging from 4" to 8" in a 3ft long tank. They were 'looking healthy' but not moving about much as you'd expect in such tight space.

2) What must have been 25/30 fully grown (about 4"/5" red parrot cichlids in a 5ftx1ftx2ft tank. That looked 'great' and surprisingly they didn't seem to be 'pushing their weight around' but as for the living conditions for them, it must have been hell. When I asked the owner of the shop, he said it was run from the rest of the 'sale and display' tanks and the bioload was excessive but the resevoir of water in the system could easily cope.... not so sure myself.

3) Best (or worst) has to be a 4ftx2ftx2ft marine tank with a 10" Clown Trigger, 6" Undulate Trigger and a 4" Picasso Trigger. There was no decor in the tank and three triggers of that size meant it was pure warfare. The owner was totally oblivious to the fact that they are totally intolerant of each other and just assumed that 'they were playful'..... needless to say he ended up keeping the Clown.

My cousin has a 2g with:
1 Common Pleco
2 Goldfish
1 Betta
3 ADFs

He does water changes every 2 months

I've tried to tell him what he's doing wrong...and that pleco's can get up to about 2 feet long...and that bettas deserve more than 2 gallons of water...but he won't listen

Poor fishies

Sounds like animal abuse stories...those stocking lists are way sick.