One of the questions I usually get is ¿Cuántos can put fish in an aquarium?. When we bought our first aquarium, we are clear about a number of fish you want to have, depending on the size of the aquarium. Fortunately, there are so many fish species we can acquire and care, with such a high variety of shapes and colors, that we all have them apetecería. It's like stepping into a free Buffett, you know you can not eat all, but I love to do. At the same you can spend on free Buffett, score many more fish that can live in good conditions, You will have a disastrous outcome. Is there any way to know how many fish can get into an aquarium? And. There are some basic rules say, but at all times we must use common sense, It is better to err by default and fish that much space available, that sin by default and are crowded, which will cause stress and disease.

One liter of aquarium water, for every centimeter of fish

There is a rule in acuariofilia fairly widespread, for establish which is the appropriate number of fish that can be introduced into an aquarium. This rule states that We must reserve a liter of water, for every centimeter that has a fish. So, a fish that measured 10 centimeters would need ten liters of water. The problem we have when we generalize, is that, we are not taking into account the thousands of possible variables. For tropical fish little ones, how tetras, bettas o platies, better book a liter or two liters of water per centimeter of fish, It is a good measure. Nevertheless, We have bigger fish or dirtier, you will see very limited that space.

Determine how much space you need each fish

One liter of water per centimeter of fish, when we talk about African cichlids, more if they are Americans and we have a well planted aquarium, or when we talk about fish as koi carp and the goldfish, usually dirty muchoâ € |se recently space. There are aquarists recommend 10 liters of water per centimeter of fish, for these varieties of fish that grow much or littering much. But we are forgetting other details, how aggression or territoriality of the fish. These dominant species and determine who like space inside the aquarium, They need a larger aquarium. Summing up a bit, we must take into account the following factors, to determine how many fish can be at the Aquarium:

Exchange of oxygen in the aquarium. Calculation of the surface

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So far we have been talking about the physical space needed by the fish to live, but we have not talked about another of his needs: the Oxigen. Not if you know, but if not I tell you, what on the surface of the aquarium are exchanged gases, so that the aquarium follows carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen in the air necessary for fish life, dissolved in water just. There is a rule, which is to calculate the surface of the water to know how many fish can have our aquarium, depending on the gas exchange. This rule cube that an aquarium can hold a centimeter fish, for every twelve square centimeters of surface. The Spanish company aquarists, It has marked guidelines to determine how many fish can be introduced into an aquarium, depending on the surface of this. The calculation is as follows:

This rule also suffers from defects, how not take into account the Total liters of the aquarium, so that higher aquariums and narrow would be detrimental in terms of the number of fish that may have. How we are generalizing, It does not take into account the particularities of each fish: territoriality, aggressiveness or species.

table guide: Calculate how many fish can I put in an aquarium

I tried to do a draw, to serve as guidance so you can decide how many fish can have in an aquarium. How is a basic table, You must combine species and size, so that you yourself can draw your conclusions:

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