Re: Re: New tank
 
>    I have never heard of this way of calculating the # of fish in a
>    tank, is that linar inches of fish ie in the above example 7 4 inch
>    fish/I ahve a book (wich I cannat find at ths time)which uses a
>    differnt calucation i do remember that the water surface size
>    determines the amount of fish you can have
>    I also never had circhlids either so i know nothing about this
>    subject
The type of fish does not matter as far as I know, but every book I have read
on the subject around here says the same thing, # of fish inch.= # gal. of
water. And you are correct, if you have 4 fish 7 inches each, that is the
limit for the tank.
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