Newbie needing advice

murphyboy · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject: Newbie needing advice

Hello everyone newbie here could someone please let me no if im over loading my tank with fish. Ive got a jewel 260 bow fronted tank im keeping in it 2 clown loaches,2 tin foils,3 corydora,s,and 2 oscars could someone please give me there opinion. Thankyou.....

diademhill · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject:

Your tank is ok for one Oscar on it's own or for the corydoras with some other fish.
Tinfoils and clowns grow too large for your tank and need keeping in groups of five or more.

There are plenty of choices that stay a reasonable size but it would be best to return or rehome the fish that you can't house.
Take a piece of A4 paper. - an adult oscar can be bigger than that. Fold it in half and the smallest species of tinfoil gets that big in around a year if well kept. Fold it in half lengthways and you have the size clown loaches reach.
Sorry but you are very overstocked.
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murphyboy · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:50 am Post subject:

Thankyou for your reply i will do that, just wished the shop i bought them from had told me that when i told them what tank i had. I did,nt no a oscar could grow the same size as a4 paper thats shocked me.