One Inch per Gallon

[kermit13sg]

I just like to find out how many of you really live by that rule of thumb? I have a 17g tank and I am wondering how many rasboras or tetras I can stock.

[WingCher]

It will have to depend on your tank's bio-filtration. If your tank is heavily planted with a bigger canister filter, you can stock more fishes... I don't really follow that inch/gallon rule, but I will always stock my cardinals in batches of 10 per week and monitor my ammonia level, if no spike I'll add more

[kermit13sg]

It will have to depend on your tank's bio-filtration. If your tank is heavily planted with a bigger canister filter, you can stock more fishes... I don't really follow that inch/gallon rule, but I will always stock my cardinals in batches of 10 per week and monitor my ammonia level, if no spike I'll add more

Ah cool... How big is your tank and how many cardinals already


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[WingCher]

2ft, 10 cardinals, 5 mosquito boraras, 4 oto, 5 Sakura and 5 Yamato shrimps... My filter is eheim 2213 full of seachem matrix and additional gex large hof also full of matrix... The intake of 2213 has a prefilter with course sponge to filter the debris... Planning to add more shrimps to clear the algae on my hairgrass

[kermit13sg]

Oh, so you are going add 10 more cardinals ???


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[WingCher]

Yes, but only after I've stablised the green beard algae issue 1st... I'm suspecting over feeding issue...

[kermit13sg]

Oh ok... My algae issue just finished. I've 4 SAE, 5 oto and 8 Yamato... Bit scared to add in tetras or rasboras..


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