Adding alot of fish at once - advice

[Stutters]

Hi All

I know this is a big nono in the hobby. But due to some outside events I've got a large amount of small fish coming.

So in this batch there is about 5 firefish 5 cardinals 1 blenny and 1 wrasse - they are all relatively small

I currently have a 7ft tank with 1 foxface in it. He is been there since August. Tank is stable.

I know this large amount is going to throw out the biofilter but how do we make it a smoother transition. I bought some fritz bacteria and will add that on the Thursday. This is in prep for them arriving on Friday morning.

any advice would be great. I am assuming I'm going to have to water change a lot to allow the bio filter to catch up.

 

[PatW]

The fish you are adding tend to be small. There are really big wrasses and decent sized blennies but the ones in the hobby tend to be of modest size.

I do not think that the whole bunch of them will do more than say double (or a bit more) than what your fox face is already putting in. And you have a pretty good sized tank so it should be able to take the extra amount in stride.

During your quarantine, you could get some ammonia additive for cycling tanks and add a drop of it to your display tank per day to ramp up your bacteria until you add your new fish. But I think that you should be just fine as is.

 

[Stutters]

They have actually been quarantined since November. They have sent double the shipment hence the amount of fish. But thanks!

 

[Stutters]

They have actually been quarantined since November. They have sent double the shipment hence the amount of fish. But thanks!

 

[Colin_S]

seems you should be ok.. I would have a bottle of prime ready and maybe a ammonia alert badge or if u have a seneye sensor you get it installed with a new chip just to keep an eye on ammonia levels.