If I

[UP UP AND GUPPY]

If I put this in a 10g would it be alright:

2 Turquoise Guppy Male
2 Blonde Delta Guppy Male
2 Yellow Guppy Male
3 Ghost Shrimp

Would that be alright? This is a part of my moms B-day present, but its just going to take a while.

 

[jumpfreak26]

Should be fine, a 10 gal can hold 16 inches of fish by my calculations, i don tthink ghost shrimp are all that big of a bio load maybe 1/2 inch each, so yeah your good

 

[pigs_fly]

16inches of fish in a 10gal? Isn't the general rule 1in of fish per gal? but I do agree about the ghost shrimp, that you could probably get away with calculating them as half an inch.

 

[UP UP AND GUPPY]

Oh yeah I know that I can have abut 6-8 ghost shrimp with 10 1" fish in a 10g. But wont I be able to get away with having 6 guppys in a 10g?

 

[UP UP AND GUPPY]

And yes pigs fly, it is the general rule.

 

[Submariner]

How do you calculate the bio-load for each species of fish? Is there a guide somewhere?

 

[tubbs24]

basically it's the "1 inch per gallon rule" for each species. While shrimp, on the other hand, produce very little natural bioload.

 

[jumpfreak26]

I read somewhere else on here that if you take the width times the length divided by ten, you can get your total amount of inches in the tank so in a ten i think it is 20*10/10, but that leave yo with 20 inches of fish? huh, oh well its finals week sorry for that, i go by the inch per galll rule too, but idk, sorry about trhat,

 

[noncentric]

Yeah, there are a few different "guidelines" about stocking limits for fish.

For many fish it's either (1) one-inch-per-gallon or (2) length x width / 10 = inches of fish.
There are plenty of exceptions to this rule though:
- dwarf puffers...1 DP per 3 gallons
- goldfish...1 goldfish per 10-20 gallons
- ghost shrimp...don't count toward "inches", but no more than 1 ghost shrimp per gallon
- etc, etc, etc

 

[wilsonriverfish]

what about this thread? Did you figure it out?