Is This To Many Fish For A 10g

katsafados

katsafados

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Like the title says, is this to many fish for a 10g tank?
2 clowns
1 linned blenny
and I want to get a green clown goby
I do 10% water changes weekly and every 2 weeks I change all the filter media. I have 8lbs of LR and a xp1 cannister filter rated for 45 or 50g tanks. With a HOB refugium with cheatto and some LR rubble.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by Katsafados
http:///forum/post/3125238
anyone?? You dont have to be an expert, just want to know what you think! I think I can do it.

I am unfamiliar with the type of fish except the clowns...look up and see how big each will get...In a 10g I wouldn't even keep the 2 clowns...I would have like 1 fridmani dottyback, but that is just me, I don't like crowded tanks.
Clowns stay in a corner pretty much anyway so they don't need allot of swimming room. I am sure they are fine...the others, I just don't know.
 
bill109

bill109

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Originally Posted by Flower
http:///forum/post/3125271

I am unfamiliar with the type of fish except the clowns...look up and see how big each will get...In a 10g I wouldn't even keep the 2 clowns...I would have like 1 fridmani dottyback, but that is just me, I don't like crowded tanks.
Clowns stay in a corner pretty much anyway so they don't need allot of swimming room. I am sure they are fine...the others, I just don't know.
i agree, i wouldnt put 2 clowns with other fish in a ten gal. they may become aggressive if they are cramped for room. short term, i would say go for it as long as u keep on top of ur cleaning regiment.
the clown wont swim around to much as i dont think it has a swim bladder?
anything is possible, but just as long as your fish look healthy and you test often you should be okay
 
meowzer

meowzer

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My clown goby's never go anywhere....they hang out in one spot...or another....not free swimmers
 
katsafados

katsafados

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Well the linned blenny stays in a hole in the rock mostly. Hell come out to feed but zoom back to its home. The 2 clowns stay to the top left of the tank usually never straying away from there. The 2 clowns are only an inch to an inch and a half so they are still pretty small. Clown gobies only grow to 1 inch so IMO I would think water quality would be the only issue here, and I can maintain that easily with the size of filter I have plus the refuge and my regular matinence.
 
bill109

bill109

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Originally Posted by Katsafados
http:///forum/post/3125539
Well the linned blenny stays in a hole in the rock mostly. Hell come out to feed but zoom back to its home. The 2 clowns stay to the top left of the tank usually never straying away from there. The 2 clowns are only an inch to an inch and a half so they are still pretty small. Clown gobies only grow to 1 inch so IMO I would think water quality would be the only issue here, and I can maintain that easily with the size of filter I have plus the refuge and my regular matinence.
try it and add them very gradual, if you have problems after doing your normal testing, i would just take one or 2 out.
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Uhhh, what clowns are they? Ocellaris/Percula I could live with in a 10gal, but any of the larger speices, maroon's, tomato's/cinnimon's, etc, I would really suggest a bigger tank.
 
katsafados

katsafados

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Originally Posted by bill109
http:///forum/post/3125630
try it and add them very gradual, if you have problems after doing your normal testing, i would just take one or 2 out.
They have been added gradually. The 2 clowns got added first then the linned blenny about 3 or 4 weeks after, and now I saw the green clown gobys at my LFS and want one haha. I'm picking it up today with a serpent star.
 
katsafados

katsafados

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Originally Posted by AquaKnight
http:///forum/post/3125640
Uhhh, what clowns are they? Ocellaris/Percula I could live with in a 10gal, but any of the larger speices, maroon's, tomato's/cinnimon's, etc, I would really suggest a bigger tank.
They are Ocellaris clowns. One is about 1 inch and the other is about a inch and a half. They still get pretty big, around 3 inches I heard. But I htink I should be okay since all of the fish I'll have stay to one part of the tank. The linned blenny would be in the rock work(doesnt swim much), the clowns off to the corner(rarly straying away from it), and the clown goby will most likely stay on the rock work or in the sand(heard they dont swim a lot either).
 
btldreef

btldreef

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We had a 14gallon with 2 Percula Clowns and 1 Green Clown Goby w/ a Cleaner Shrimp and were fine. The nice thing about the Clown Goby is that they stay small. I definitely would not add any more fish. You may find that the Clowns look too big for the 10g once they're full grown. Our clowns are over a year old and aren't much bigger than when we bought them (about 1" each). IMO, get an anemone for them, it's so cool to watch them in it. Do you plan on upgrading to a bigger tank down the road?
Good luck! Nano tanks are fun.
 
gio28

gio28

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IMO i think you will be fine...but when the clowns get full grown then it would be wise to reduce the number of your fish or upgrade to a larger tank or trade them in (if you aren't attached to them)
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by gio28
http:///forum/post/3134273
IMO i think you will be fine...but when the clowns get full grown then it would be wise to reduce the number of your fish or upgrade to a larger tank or trade them in (if you aren't attached to them)
one of his clowns jumped....
 
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