do people ever get away with massively over stocking their tank ?

[melbfish20]

I have seen a number of tanks online that are over stocked and appear to be perfectly healthy but today I saw a tank that takes the cake and I cant understand how the owner has gotten away with it

this is all in a 60 G tank

Scissortail Goby, hectors gobby, mandarin goby, cowfish, box fish, coral beauty, clown tang, powder blue tang, naso tang, purple tang, yellow tang, blue tang, flame angel, yellow angel, purple firefish, six line wrasse, corise yellow wrasse, 2 green wrasses, puffer, pink skunk clown, 3 percula clowns, harlequin sweet lips, bigmouth spotted jawfish, long nose hawkfish, lemon peel, lawnmower blenny, 2 stripped cleaner shrimp, royal gama, anemone crab, emerald crabs, dozen or more starfish (I love color)!!!!

do all these people that have tanks that are way overstocked get away with it or does the tank end up crashin down ?

[unleashed]

I have seen a number of tanks online that are over stocked and appear to be perfectly healthy but today I saw a tank that takes the cake and I cant understand how the owner has gotten away with it

this is all in a 60 G tank

Scissortail Goby, hectors gobby, mandarin goby, cowfish, box fish, coral beauty, clown tang, powder blue tang, naso tang, purple tang, yellow tang, blue tang, flame angel, yellow angel, purple firefish, six line wrasse, corise yellow wrasse, 2 green wrasses, puffer, pink skunk clown, 3 percula clowns, harlequin sweet lips, bigmouth spotted jawfish, long nose hawkfish, lemon peel, lawnmower blenny, 2 stripped cleaner shrimp, royal gama, anemone crab, emerald crabs, dozen or more starfish (I love color)!!!!

do all these people that have tanks that are way overstocked get away with it or does the tank end up crashin down ?

Chances are, this tank has not been set up for long and if it has been, all the guy is doing is replacing lost stock.

Trust me, it will crash soon...................

[kaybee]

There are a several fish on that roster which shouldn't in a 60gal, even if they they the entire 60gal to themselves.

I've found the site where this set up is located and the owner states,

"THE KEY TO HAVING AS MANY FISH AS WE DO IS TO GET THE XTRA LARGE PROTEIN SKIMMMER..." and notes that the tank is equipped with a 300 gallon capacity protein skimmer.

The owner also adds, "with 31 different fish!!! We have added even more fish to our tank - We break all the rules and yet they still live "

Still alive for the time being, more likely. What the owner is apparently failing to realize it the size some of these fish are capable of attaining and their swimming and 'space' requirements (on top of the massive bio-load).

Kind of perplexing if you ask me. Despite being completely inappropriately stocked, fish-wise, the tank is actually (for the time being) a spectacular and impressive reef tank, I'll give him that. One would think that a person capable of setting up a coral tank like that would know how to stock it (though, ironically the tank also contains a non-reef safe chocolate chip starfish). Too bad it isn't designed to remain spectacular. I'm almost inclined to think it's some sort of LFS display tank.

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Agreed, that tank is headed for disaster. About the only way that would work (sort of) would be if there was a 200-300 gallon sump on it with an equal amount of live rock in it. The bioload would then be taken care of, however the fish sizes would not and many of them will outgrow the tank.

[Northernguy]

I would like to see this tank.Can you post a link.

[gm72]

Not only will the tank most likely inevitably crash, let's think about the wellfare of the animals. I mean, I could move my entire extended family into my house and I promise you it would NOT be a fun life.

[Lady Hobbs]

"do people ever get away with massively over stocking their tank ?"

Why would anyone WANT to? Boggles da mind. Especially when it's all different species like that. It's not like large schools of fish that all get along and want to be together.

[kaybee]

I would like to see this tank.Can you post a link.

I found it by copying/pasting the entire 3rd paragraph of Post #1 into yahoo search which led me to:
[Only Registered Users Can See Links.]

[The Wedge]

These people are just starving for attention...I feel quite sorry for them. It is really pathetic. I am gonna go out on a limb here and say that it is impossible for them to think about anything but their selves. They have developmental issues that have led them to be self-centered, self-righteous, omnipotent, self-serving, and entitled idiots. I am sure I left out a few more words with self. Don't you know who I think i am...Yep, it must be lonely living in a world where you think you're the center of the universe...because when it comes down to it...your little self-centered universe...is very insignificant (they obviously have some sort of disease of perception). This post was all about them...I didn't read anything in the posting that was about their fish...maybe I missed it or it was just convoluted with their ego and ignorance. Sorry for my rant. PEACE

[Fishguy2727]

The only way to safely do something like this is to have a small display tank with a massive sump (many times the volume of the display tank). Even then you need to move out fish as they grow too large for the physical size of the display tank. The usual problem with overstocking is water quality and the massive volume of such a system could allow this type of stocking.

[cocoa_pleco]

seems to me like theyre trying to compensate for something

[Northernguy]

Thjamks for posting that link Kaybee!
That is irrisponsible fish keeping!
Either they do not care or do not know any better.:help:
Are there any picks of the tank after it crashed?

[melbfish20]

even if the the water quality is perfect wouldnt those fish get so stressed out that they would die within a weak ?6 tangs in a 60 gallon when a 75 G is min for 1.Plus a host of other fish including 3 dwarf angel fish and than lots of live rock and corals, very very selfish.

[Fishguy2727]

The live rock will help. A lot has to do with size and how they are introduced too.

But yes, no one should ever tank a tank like this as anything but an example of what NOT to do.