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How many fish would you be able to keep in a 1000 Litre tank

That about 265 us gallon. It depends how many fish, what were you planning on having?

Well i have a community tank, and my totla is 31, is that too much

no that sounds fine, even if you did have some big fish you wouldnt be near your max. Your all set.

i was thinking of adding some shrimp and about 3more other fish, would that be ok,. What is the limit

yup, you could do that. If you went by the 1 inch of fish per gallon, you could have 265 inches of fish. BUt to be safe I always cut that in half, by assuming that all the fish are 2 inches. So I would say tou can put around 130-150 inchs of fish.

-topher

inches per gallon is for tetras fairly much. You could keep lots and lots of fish in a 265 gallon, heck you could likely clone a person like in a science fiction movie with a tank that big! What you'll want to do is look at 2 things to determine how many more fish you can have; their behaviour, and the rate of nitrate build-up. If your fish look colorfull and stress free, and your water changes are keeping the nitrates down, you can likely add more. Of course theres a point of reason with this, give some room around each fish, make sure anything that doesn't school has a place to call home in some way. As an instance, my rams have the lowwer parts of a large artificial plant, the krib takes up behind a large immitation peice of bark or the peice of mopani at the other end of my tank, and my albino BN has a house, the plant he likes to clean, and the mopani wood to suck on all at one end of the tank.