Just curious: If you had a 230g tank, how many fish would you put in it?

[Delphinus]

Interesting question. In my 110g cube, those 11 fish work out to about 42". Haha, I have a way higher ratio than you do in your 400.

I have an eel though which sort of skews the numbers. Well, actually, I guess it doesn't skew since he puts a pretty heavy load on the tank, at 8" he's probably way "heavier" than the 8" tang, for example.

[Lance]

I have 16 fish for a total of 63" in my 225g. or 3.6 inches of fish per gallon. And that is probably too many; it's a struggle to keep nitrates down.

[lastlight]

NONE.

Please see my old thread for ideas.

LMAO!

[Eb0la11]

For my 165G so far I have:

Tomini Tang
Oscellaris Clowns x 2
Regal Tang
Fox Face
Blue/Green Chromis x 2
White Sleeper Goby
Lawnmower Blenny
Yellow Clown Goby
Green Clown Goby

I plan on getting at least 6-8 more fish on top of this list. Right now they are all small, I know they wont stay that way but I too like to have a nice amount of fish. Some of the ones above stay very small too though, at least 4 of them do. So thats my stocking list right now but I wanna get some mandarin(s), another tang or two, and likely a dwarf eel eventually, so we'll see where I end up. I like this thread though.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by untamed

Hmm..maybe total fish-inches/gallon is better math. Those 16 account for about 90" worth of fish, so by the same ratio you get about 51" worth in 230 gallons. At 1.5" each, that would be about 34 fish.



I wonder what everybody else's inches/gallon is? Only display gallons count!

I suck at math so I'm not sure When I get home later on I'll try to hold a measuring tape up tp the glass so I can get a better idea of how big my fish really are (I tend to guess bigger then they really are) and I'll try to figure it out.

Originally Posted by Eb0la11

I like this thread though.

Thanks, I thought it would be interesting to see what people would or have stocked their tank with.

[kien]

If I had a larger tank, say the 230 of the topic here, I would definitely do more schooling fish. My 4 chromis whenever they feel like schooling look cool and I always wish that i could put more in. Perhaps other schooling fish like cardinals or anthias. A massive ball of schooling fish, that would be golden.

[muck]

Originally Posted by kien

If I had a larger tank, say the 230 of the topic here, I would definitely do more schooling fish. My 4 chromis whenever they feel like schooling look cool and I always wish that i could put more in. Perhaps other schooling fish like cardinals or anthias. A massive ball of schooling fish, that would be golden.

For sure... about 100 orange-stripe cardinals would be Fantastic!!

[The Grizz]

155 Bow Front

Livestock
Regal Tang
Coral Beauty
Six Line Wrassel
Yellow Tang
Jewel Damsel
3 Ocellaris Clowns
Blue Fin Demsel
Spotted Hawkfish
2 Blue Green Chromis
Fox Face Lo
Azure Damsel
2 Sand Sifting Stars

Would like to add:
Korean Angel
Emperor Angel
Powder Blue Tang
Orange Spotted Goby
Yellow Goly
Thread Fin Butterfly

[lastlight]

I had read somewhere that there are no fish available in the hobby that truly school. That the few fish we think are schooling are schoaling and there is some difference. Random comment without a reference!