[Angel*Fish]

Pardon - this is long and hard to read....

I hear so many people almost bragging about how little they feed their tanks. I'm not sure such a sparsely fed tank doesn't lead to a "touchy" tank.

Let's say you have 4 fish and you are only utilzing 20% of the available LR surface area - that's 5% per fish and a finite number of bacteria/infauna I'll set/define as 20 BI.

Then you add 2 more fish (or overfeed for a week) The 20 BI have to increase themselves by 33% to reach the 30BI needed for that load.


OK Same size tank same size available LR surface area. But this time you have 8 fish (now utilizing 40% of the surface area). And the corresponding amount of bacteria/infauna -40BI. >>>>Then you add 2 fish. Since now 50 BI is now needed your 40 BI will only have to expand by 20% to reach the 50BI needed.

Thus assuming available surface area, the higher bioload, the easier it is to add more bioload and in that sense the more stable your tank is in terms of dealing with, for example, the death of a giant turbo snail behind the rocks

Any opinions?