Is my tank fully stocked?

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  1. lightningfront

    lightningfront Spaghetti Worm

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    I have a 46 gallon bowfront tank with a 20 gallon sump. I'm running a AquaC EV-120 skimmer, around 75 lbs of live rock, and cheato as filtration on the system.
    My fish include 2 Black & White Clowns, Firefish Goby, Royal Gramma, 6 Line Wrasse, Yellow Watchman, Orange Spot Shrimp Goby, and a tail spot blenny. I also have a skunk cleaner shrimp, a red banded pistol shrimp, around 20 Nasarius snails, 10 astrea snails, 20 cerith snails, 10 blue leg hermits, and 5 scarlet hermits.
    Corals are mostly all frags, 5 different colors of zoas, frogspawn, purple hammer, digi, blue xenia, favia brain, GSP
    I know I want to add more corals and that shouldn't be a problem but can I add more fish and inverts or do you believe my bioload is at max?
     
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  3. Froc3

    Froc3 Fire Goby

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    Inverts shouldn't be a problem for adding, they aren't much of a bioload, but for the fish, there is a calculator under the calculators tab in the tool bar on the left hand side of the webpage.
     
  4. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    your getting close, i would say one more would be pushing it. and by that i mean your tank could handle it but you may start getting algae break outs if you don't have enough chaeto


    also any inverts would probably be ok to add, its almost impossible to overstock with inverts if you take into account the space issue.
     
  5. lightningfront

    lightningfront Spaghetti Worm

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    Nice, Thanks I did not know that.
     
  6. wammy

    wammy Astrea Snail

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    can some telll me exactly chaeto is i keep seeing this ive never heard of that before
     
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  9. Froc3

    Froc3 Fire Goby

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    Well, not to hijack the thread, but it's a macro algae commonly used in refugiums as a means of nutrient export so that the algae in the tank doesn't get any nutrients to grow with.

    EDIT: Beat me to it :)
     
  10. wammy

    wammy Astrea Snail

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    o i see ok thanx
     
  11. Bunner

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    hey lightning do you have a calcium reactor?
     
  12. fazool666

    fazool666 Sea Dragon

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    You may be pushing it a little - I do the same thing ;)