"Bill Stock" wrote


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.

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,

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.

Makes sense? As the fish got bigger, they overloaded the tank and problems
started.

loss. Once I get them into the big tank with the large filter I hope to
get them beyond ten years.

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.