Tank Size Query

[daveheard]

Can anyone help by telling me the volume that my tank will hold in gallons and litres.
The tank size is...

Length: 36inches or 920mm or 3ft.
Width: 12inches or 305mm or 1ft.
Height: 15inches or 380mm or 1.3ft

I have a hunch that its around the 25 gal mark but i'm not sure, plus being in the UK i think that a British gallon is different from a US gallon.
As it stands this is my first tank ( my wife gave up on it so i got it back in action ) and it is stocked with the following..

8 dwarf neon rainbow fish
6 glowlight tetra
6 black neon tetra
3 chain loach
3 serpae tetra
3 balloon molly
2 bronze cory
2 schwartzi cory
1 lemon spot pl*co
1 prince tiger pl*co
2 small pl*cos ( 2" max )
A piece of bogwood and 3 plants ( unknown ).

Knowing the of the tank size would be usefull as i see what others keep in their tanks and it seems a lot less than i do, even though their tanks are often listed as 30 gal + ( mostly US tanks ).

I also saw a thread from IGGY about his 50 gal and the measurments on that were 48 x 12 x 20.

So as you can see i'm well and truly baffled and need help, the men in white coats are banging on the door LOL.



*crazysmil

 

[spongebob69]

28 gallons..u seem WAY overstocked...

 

[Purple]

29 gals - and agreed - way too many fish once they grow up. Better start thinking about which ONE Pl*co you'd like to keep. Not sure about the Loaches, but I think you're heading for trouble there as well (size wise).

 

[daveheard]

what is an accepted amount of fish for this size tank and what should i look at getting rid of???

 

[Purple]

I’d keep the bogwood - plants - all the corys - and either the lemon spot or the tiger. From the neons and the tetras choose a dozen you like the most OR keep the 3 mollys - not the mollies and the dozen though - that puts it over the edge.

A 6 inch Pl*co would be OK in a 30 - but two Pl*cs in a 30 will lead to fights at feeding time (been there - done that). Also if you only keep one Pl*c then you can get away with keeping the corys which will make for a busy bottom layer. I think the Loaches would end up getting fed up with tripping over Corys and Pl*cs all the time, so as much as I like them I’d like Corys and Pl*cs more.

You need to balance the territorial issues, and the swimming space - and the bio-load all at once. Get it right and it’s going to be a nice tank - get it wrong and you’ll spend a lot of time looking at the tank and wondering what to get rid of next to keep it stable.