okay, so I have 25 fish as of now in my 55 gallon heavily planted tank. I want to take the 11 fish from my 20 gal and move them to my 55 making a grand total of 36 fish in my 55 gallon. Im getting tired of taking care of 4 fish tanks =\. the fish I currently have in the 55 are all pretty small its
5 cory catfish
2 gouramis
4 mollies
5 chinese algae eaters
2 swordtail
5 platys
2 upside down catfish

I would be adding
4 Glofish (danios)
1 molly
3 cory catfish
3 glass catfish

will this be too many? my fish tank does not look overstocked as of now and there are tons and tons and tons of hiding places for my fish. I would also add a pengiun filter to my 55 gallon which already has an emperor 400 to make a total of 3 bio wheels and 650 gph filtration. also do 40% water change per week. thanks for any advice.

Yes you can but my advice would be to get rid of the chinese algae eaters as they get mean when they get bigger (6 inches) and will latch onto a big bodied fish and suck the slime coat off them.

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Yeah I agree with susan. Get rid of them, and make sure you keep on top of your filtration and water changes. I run an Aquaclear 110 and a Cascade 300(BIO ONLY) on my tank and its only a 29G.

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well anyone have any ideas of what I should do to "get rid" of them? I dont want to kill them. Maybe just return them to the fish store?

Just return them, may not give you anything for them, maybe some store credit.

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With your added fish you will approach a mximum, especially if your Mollies and Gouramis grow. I have a large Chinese Algae Eater and he causes is no problem with a bunch of smaller fish.

in the 4 months ive had them ive only seen them attempt to latch onto one of my fish. everyone keeps telling me that it will get worse as they get bigger, but as of now they are the most peaceful fish in the tank. if they become a problem I will take them back to the LFS =(.

Wow, 5 of them. Personally, I wouldn't wait until I had problems, but that's just me.

I had one, it killed my angelfish, returned him the next day. I always advised customers not to buy them because of their territorial tendencies

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I'd get rid of the Chinese Algae eaters as well. They are really not nice fish...

If you do get Glass Catfish, they need to be in a group of 6 at least, so you may want to skip them, or skip some of the other fish so that you can get the right number of them. (I'd skip the extra Molly and the glofish - since they need 6 or more as well - but you could add 2 more corys - as long as they are the same type of cory, since they only school with their own type - Odd numbers are best, so you could just add 2 more.) If you do get rid of the C.A.E's then you should have no trouble adding 6-7 Glass Cats and the 2 extra Corys.

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