How many clowns in 80g tank?

[reefstew]

I'm also a clown fish breeder & instead of putting the fish in my 10 gal. grow out tanks, I set up a 55 gal tank & stocked it with 326 , 1-3 month old fry. It's a bare bottom tank with macro algae ,uv,& 2 filters. I have not lost 1 fish since I stocked it on 4-11-09.

 

[Mayesj101]

Reef, if you've kept 326 clowns in a 55-gallon tank for 5 months, you've lost something. I don't care how small they are, that many fish would necessitate some absolutely ridiculous skimming, live rock filtration, and water changes-I'm talking like 10% per DAY. I mean, think about it. A 5 to 7-month old angel is what, let's say half an inch long. That's over 160 inches of fish in a 55-gallon tank, all of which need feeding several times daily.

 

[reefstew]

I have no skimmer & about 10 lbs of rock . I clean the filters weekly along with a 10 gal water change per week. I have been breeding clown fish for over 5 years now. At one time about 3 years ago, I had I batch of 260 ocellaris in a 10 gal tank plumbed into a main system. Over the coarse of 2 years, I lost about 20 fish. I now stock 50 per 10 gal. With 260, my only problem was SLOW GROTH! What do you think other breeders who do this for a living use?

 

[mobert]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15647191#post15647191 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mayesj101
Reef, if you've kept 326 clowns in a 55-gallon tank for 5 months, you've lost something. I don't care how small they are, that many fish would necessitate some absolutely ridiculous skimming, live rock filtration, and water changes-I'm talking like 10% per DAY. I mean, think about it. A 5 to 7-month old angel is what, let's say half an inch long. That's over 160 inches of fish in a 55-gallon tank, all of which need feeding several times daily.

Two half inch fishes do not have the same body mass as an one inch fish. If you were to weigh a clutch of youngsters, it is might be less than one adult Angel fish.