Need advice on my 56 gallon tank

[not1min]

Broke down my 30 gallon and moved some lava rocks, Pengiun 350 HOB and substrate to the 56. I will be moving all the fish from my 75 gallon, 2 sword tails, 2 silver dollars, bn plecos, plain pleco, 2 no name cichilds into this tank once I get the water parameters up to par.
I will be removing the Marineland 350 once the tank is seeded.

Want to add approximately 7 yellow labs to this tank. Will this be too many fish in this tank. Do I need to add or do anything else to this tank.

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Dimensions are 30x18x25

Your advice is greatly appreciated.


56 gallon equipment
2 Manineland Visi-Therm Heaters - 150w
1 AC70 HOB w/sponge filter & batting
1 Marineland 350 HOB w/batting in baskets
UGJ running 1200 maxijet
750ghp Koralia
dual sponge filters connected to Rena 400 air pump

blue led light

[armthehomeless]

I think you can get by with that many fish in your 56g. If I were going to add more fish though, Id probably consider getting more filtration.

[not1min]

I think you can get by with that many fish in your 56g. If I were going to add more fish though, Id probably consider getting more filtration.

What type of filtration would you add Eheim 2215, 2217 or something else.

[cichlid1409]

either of those would be fine or another AC 70 or comparable HOB or just leave the 350 on there. also 2 150 watt heaters is not necessary on that size tank unless the room has big temp swings in the winter.