How Many Fish?
by Aquaboy on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | 9 Comments
I have a new tank which I cycled according to the aquarium shops instructions and now I’ve added my fish (slowly over the past 2weeks). The water is perfect and it all looks pretty good, all I’d like to know is if this amount of fish is okay, and could I add any more or is this enough?
The tank is about 22 USgallons (thats about 18-19 UK) and I have
5 danios,
5 male guppies
1 ghost shrimp
and an apple snail.
I don’t want to add anything big, maybe a few more guppies or another shrimp, but if this is already enough that is fine too ‘cus they are already very entertaining.
Thanks!
All the guppies are males its okay! I checked because I knew they bred like crazy.
well guppies multiply, and the rule is for every gallon of water you can have one inch of fish, u could probably add a couple more
well 1 gallon for every inch of fish er visa versa but yes you have plenty of room and can add a FEW more fish
eh this is to many fish for that size tank. If you can figure this out how ever your countries metric or waht ever works. its 1″ of fish per gallon of water. So if you have a ten gallon tank you could only get 5- 2″ fish.
Sounds fine. General rule of thumb is one inch of fish to one gallon of tank size. Since you have guppies you’ll probably end up with more fish in a short period of time anyway!
yeah you can fit up to maybe ten more small fish in there.
A school of 6-8 neons is about the only thing you could add.
You would be fine adding a 2 or 3 more guppies as long at they are male also, a small school of neons or a few more shrimp but I wouldn’t get any more than that. I would also recommend waiting at least a month before adding anything else. IT is good you stocked slowly and it is best it wait a while before having your tank fully stocked.
perfect as is
mabe you should get some mollies and platys. or dwarf gouramis. there nice.