"JeffinMississippi" wrote in message
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"Dan Abel" wrote in message
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"Jeff" wrote:


I definitly agree it looks overstocked. But on one of my previous
posts/questions I was told 1 fish per gallon of water. I figured the
Neon

No, that's one *inch* of fish per gallon of water.

Tetras being so small wouldnt be a problem.

Correct, because they are only about an inch anyway.

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Ive got about 35 inches of fish in a 20 gallon tank.


There are many ways to calculate fish-load. The fish-inch-gallon is a
guideline which works very poorly at the extremes of high mass (Oscars)
and low mass (Neon tetra).
http://www.2cah.com/netmax/basics/st...stocking.shtml

When in doubt, filter according to your fish-load and not your tank size.
If you think you should have a 40g tank, then you should be filtering
your 20g as at least a 40g (generally 25% larger), but as your tank is
small, you want lower turbulence filters (ie: a small Eheim canister
filter to augment what you already have).
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