RE: [AGA-Member] correct balance of fish

["Laith Arif" <laith@swissonline.ch>]

11 discus in a 90G is stretching your fishload, especially if they're not
juveniles.

Discus are messy and the bigger they are the messier.  By going from 3 to 11
of them in one go, you may have suddenly increased the amount of NH4 going
into the water and overloading your biofilter so it's not being processed
into NO2 and then NO3 quickly enough.  Algae apparently love NH4...

Laith


-----Original Message-----
From: Nickeydundee@aol.com [mailto:Nickeydundee@aol.com] 
Sent: 31 January 2005 03:02
To: aga-member@thekrib.com
Subject: [AGA-Member] correct balance of fish


Hello All,
        Thank you the help with the  algae eaters.. I have eleven discus in
a 
90 gallon and before the addition of  them I wasn't having any problem with 
algae. I had only three discus in the tank  and things were going smooth
plants 
growing etc. So, I am left by reasoning and  by the removal of the oto's
that 
maybe I put to many fish in the tank and have  upset the balance and made it

more suitable for the algae then plants. Has  anyone ran into this problem?



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