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Posted	How many fish should I buy?
14-03-2006 20:10 by Panasiuk	I am going to be placing an order for some malawi fish for my new tank on friday. I was wondering how many fish I should get. The tank is a Juwel 240 with a fluval 304, ehiem pro 2 thermofilter, and a large sump. I have been told to over-stock the tank but how many fish would you call over-stocked? Thanks for your help, Joe
14-03-2006 20:24 by Lexter	Joe, i know you know your stuff, but have you matured the filter etc mate????
14-03-2006 20:29 by Panasiuk	Yup, im fine in that department. All of the filters are mature, some of the gravel will be coming from my other tanks so will have beneficial bacteria. Plus the tank will not be fully stocked for quite a few months yet. Im spending around £800 on this tank so im doing as much research as possible.
14-03-2006 20:42 by sam	thats alot of money for that tank why dont u buy the rio 400 of classifieds?
14-03-2006 20:52 by Panasiuk	Well it's not just for the tank. The tank and stand are going to cost me around £250 and then the rest is on equipment and fish. When we move house in about a years time I hope to buy a 150 gal tank and work my way up.
14-03-2006 20:54 by sam	i see
14-03-2006 22:10 by Panasiuk	So can anyone answer my question? How many Malawi fish for my Juwel 240?
14-03-2006 22:31 by MC	How many litres
15-03-2006 08:42 by PaddyD	Be aware that your filters are not fully mature, each time you put new fish in you will increase the biload of the tank and the filter bacteria will have to increase in population to cope with this. Putting 20 fish in and your filter will not cope. Ideally you should put all fish in at once but this is not possible in reallity - add them 6-10 at a time. More peaceful ones first As to stock if you are keeping Mbuna I would go for a total stock of about 30- 35. You will need to get aother filter as well as the jewel one to cope with this amount of fish though.
15-03-2006 10:30 by Panasiuk	So are you saying a fluval 304, ehiem pro 2 thermofilter, and a large sump are not enough?
15-03-2006 14:05 by PaddyD	nope - I did not read the bit about the filteration. Yours will be fine.
15-03-2006 15:35 by telboy	pan man, have ya sold ya oscar yet dude?
15-03-2006 17:30 by Panasiuk	Iv had alot of intrest but no sale yet.
15-03-2006 22:00 by Panasiuk	Sam do you have an e-mail address I can contact you on? Thanks
16-03-2006 02:32 by liam	how about i call u on thursday?
16-03-2006 02:33 by liam	im intersted in your oscar? if the price is right?
16-03-2006 08:28 by yanton	which malawis are you getting?
16-03-2006 18:00 by Panasiuk	£15 liam
16-03-2006 18:20 by liam	would u take 10 pounds? and i will pick up?
16-03-2006 18:23 by Panasiuk	£15 and ill throw in my last firemouth?
16-03-2006 19:18 by liam	just got red of my 4 firemouths the other week so i dont need the firemouth. 10 pounds just for the oscar if u take it to woodford aquatics u wont get anythink for it! i took a large convict to them and they did not give me nothin!!
16-03-2006 19:55 by Panasiuk	Would you be able to pick up tomorrow?
16-03-2006 20:13 by MC	Panasiuk - back to the original question, work on one fish per 15 litres and you wont be far off
16-03-2006 22:19 by liam	sorry about this mc going of the question again but buisness is buisness yes i can if its 10pounds?
17-03-2006 13:10 by Panasiuk	Well then liam if you want to e-mail me at contact.joe@ntlworld.com we can sort out a time.

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