Here's some hithero undiscussed information on oxygenation I hadn't thought of until now, together with some extra-rigorous bonus on stocking/fish mass in this tank vs Martin Thoene's tank. It looks like with every new comment I make, the better off this setup appears.
Fish mass/stocking in Martin Thoene's tank:
-18x Botia in the 9-13cm range. Exact number of each species varied depending on what was purchased when and what survived his plant-filter blockage, but post-blockage he had 10x clown loach, 4x golden zebra loach, 3x Burmese loach, and 1x adopted Bengal loach.
-13x bronze catfish.
-20x tiger barb.
-1x filament barb.
Hitherto undiscussed oxygenation factors:
-Water temperature of 28.1 degrees.
-Large masses of live plants. Depending on whether it's day or night, these either drastically increase or decrease oxygen in a 12 hour period.
Fish mass/stocking in this tank:
-Also 18x Botia in the 9-13cm range, with 9x zebra and 9x Burmese. This is probably somewhat less of an overall Botia mass than in Martin's tank, given how slender zebra and Burmese loaches are compared to the chunky clown loaches making up most of the Botia there. I'll guesstimate 20% less based on the pictures of Martin's clowns compared to Loaches Online's pictures of zebras and Burmese.
-48x kuhli loach, even mix of striped and black. These are probably this tank's equivalent to Martin's bronze catfish, and my guess is that they equate to about 30% more fish mass based on the 6cm adult size of a bronze catfish visually approximating the mass of 3x 7.6cm kuhli loaches.
-9-13x Odessa barb. These reach an adult size of only 4cm compared to the 7cm adult size of the tiger barb, and are also about 10% smaller in height and girth relative to their length, giving a mass 10-14.4x less than the tiger barbs.
-9x roseline shark. These attain the same length and girth as filament barbs, but only have about half the body depth, giving the 9 roseline sharks 4.5 times more mass than the filament barb.
My (very rough) guess is that this is overall comparable fish mass than Martin Thoene's tank. This is based on pictures of his fish to the appropriate scale with pictures of the fish I will get.
Hithero undiscussed oxygenation factors:
-Water temperature to be somewhere between 23-25 degrees. This will allow for more dissolved oxygen, up to a full ppm more based on this chart:
-No live plants. This means I'll need more surface agitation to get as much or more daytime oxygen, but can also maintain that oxygen well at night.
I think that will be more than doable, though. Here's the the surface agitation all 8214 l/hr of his flow gives, compared to only the Sicce XStream in my tank (which is of course only half the total flow).
As you can see, even at only half of what it will be, it makes quite a bit more surface agitation. Together with the Sicce Voyager and the lower water temperature, I think the oxygenation will be even greater than what the greater amount of flow alone suggests, and so enough or more than enough to make up for no plants.
Not to mention, with the greater agitation is more potential to mix/circulate the tank well. This gets the oxygen-rich water mixed throughout the water column.
I am just so proud of how well set-up this tank will be.
