182l Freshwater Tank

Hi,

I have a 182L fish tank (maybe around 45gallon). I have 3 sucking catfish, 2 sailfin mollies, 3 balloon mollies, 8 rummy nose tetras, 5 guppies (1 male & 4 females) and 8 guppies fry.

Is my fish tank overstocked?

Thank you in advance for responses.

 

I think its okay.
But your filtration also counts. Let us know your filter output. Couple of pics will help too.
Also let us know if your tank is cycled.

 

Greetings and welcome to Fishlore

There are several unknowns here:

1. What kind of "sucking catfish" are we talking about? If they are ottos no issue (but the numbers are low, they are social fish) if they are standard plecostomus there is a very big issue.

2. Are the sail fin mollies standards or a dwarf variety? Standard Sails can get to five inches full grown. In my opinion, a 40 gallon is too small for them.

3. Filtration. What is your GPH (Gallon Per Hour)? I am in the camp that goes with 10x the water column in filter flow.

Your guppy count is very good. I use a 4:1 female to male for my live bearers. But you will be up to your gills in babies if the tetras can't catch them.

Best wishes

 

I have aqua one Horizon 182 Glass Starter Kit aquarium and have Aqua One ClearView Hang On Filter 500 (GPH 500L), 1 air stone and a heater. I do water change twice weekly. The tank has been running for 6months now and had cycled it for 2months before adding fish.
They are standard sailfin mollies

Sorry the photos are little blurry.

Thank you heaps.

 

You should be fine It will take the mollies a while to get too big, if they ever do.

Keep your eye on those algae (sucker) eaters. There is one that looks like them that has been said to nibble at the slime coat of other fish. But I have no first hand experience with this.

You have good looking fish there

 

Thank you for your help.

Yeah I’ve been doing some research on these algae eater, they might get aggressive when they grow. The pet store told me I can bring them in if they are agressive. If I do decide to return them, what will be a better bottom feeder?

Thank you again

 

Thank you for your help.

Yeah I’ve been doing some research on these algae eater, they might get aggressive when they grow. The pet store told me I can bring them in if they are agressive. If I do decide to return them, what will be a better bottom feeder?

Thank you again

You are most welcome

Ottos are as good an algae eater as they come. The down side is that they have a high attrition rate when new. Has to do with shipping and the death of the bacteria in their gut. This bacteria is needed to digest algae. So they can eat and eat and starve to death. I generally loose 25-30% but once stabilized they are wonderful little fish.

1. One of our ottos.
You must feed them veggies and algae wafers.



2. Then there are the Bristle nose.
This is our boy Beast. He is 8 years old. They can live over 20 years. You must feed them veggies and algae wafers.



3. This is our girl Betty.



If you are wanting something that will eat more than algae then corys are a great little fish. These are some of the ones we have. From several aquariums.

4. A panda.



5. An albino.



6. Pepperds and a baby bristle nose.



6. A false julie.

 

Thank you heap. Your fish are beautiful
I was thinking to get some corys.
Have a nice day.

 

Thank you

Can't go wrong with corys. Keep in mind that they need to be in a school of their own type. The more the better. Our schools run around 10 but 6 will work.

 

No worries. Thank you very much. You’ve been a great help.