when stocking you must also take into account the worst power loss in your area every 10 yrs.
If the power goes out and your over stocked things go badly very quickly.
Did I mention VERY QUICKLY!
A over stocked tank can be pushed over the edge due to one fish dieing. A LFS had a 30ish gallon way overstocked including a great RTS and a clown loach. One fish died unnoticed and boom the tank went sour and almost everything died...
Clown loaches do grow slowly.
One can stunt the growth of any animal by a variety of ways--
poor environment. poor water quality, lack of O2, over crowding, lack of buddys, stress etc...
a lack of food. Humans in general are at least 12" higher then they had been for all of history. All because of diet.
Stresses during shipping. It can be argued that young fish can have had longterm damage due to toxins building up during shipping.
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