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Posted by Bill Stock on November 10, 2007, 12:12 pm
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>>> Ok, you should be fine. (8+6+3)x5=17x5=85 and you are close to it. The
>>> 1 who died of dropsy *may* be related to overcrowding combined with
>>> disease.
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>> I had five fish in this tank for a long time, two BIG ones (6+" then) a
>> medium (5" then) and the two little ones (2+" then). About two years ago
>> they got sick (mostly Biggie #2). We tried everything, PP, water changes,
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> ok, (6+6+5+2+2)x5=21x5= 'overload' for 75g tank. Take out one of the 6'
> fellows and you are back to load you have now, where problems started.
The five fish are past tense, now down to 3.
No doubt the five were too many, just as the 3 are borderline now.
> Makes sense? As the fish got bigger, they overloaded the tank and
> problems started.
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>> loss. Once I get them into the big tank with the large filter I hope to
>> get them beyond ten years.
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> The larger filter will help alot. I'm making a reasonable guess that when
> your fish load with current filter conditons hits about 16inches total,
> tank starts to destabilize. A bigger filter will shift that to allow for
> more fish load but if you lose power and have no way to run the filter,
> you may well lose all the fish if you cant put them in the pond quick. Oh,
> the same general idea pertains to the pond which robably isnt running any
> type of airation (sp?) to assist so it's load potential possibly is even
> less than 10g per inch fish. I do not know much about pond fish but I do
> know if you overload it, they will die too.
Pond is undergoing renovations so the fish are in their indoor bucket (300
g) + filter. But normally the pond has a waterfall and fountain during the
warmer months and a bubbler during the winter. I'm not sure how many fish
there are, maybe 12 at 2.5 + four fry.
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