29 gallon reef questions

[Jonathon Jenkins]

so I've been a member of this hobby for 1.5 months. I watched and read many articles. In my tank I have......
Fish
1 coral beauty 2".....I plan to upgrade tanks
2 clowns 1.5"
1 royal gramma 1.5"
1 6 lined rass 1.5"
1 watchman 1.5"
1 diamond 2"

Invertebrates/clean crew
3 hermit
1 emerald crab
1 Sally light foot crab
1 camel shrimp
1 bandit shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
2 snails

Coral
6 softies

Equipment
Protein skimmer-tested to 50 gal tank
Emperor 400 HOB-good for a 75 gal tank
Two wave makers
Heater Jagger
USA current light
Auto top off

I have run the tank successful for 1.5 months with ammonia, nitrate, nitrite all zeros. Is my tank over full. Any suggestions. Any complaints. I'm just wondering if I can keep this up. I usually do water changes weekly to Bi weekly with water checks every 3-7 days. I just added the diamond and coral beauty. This is why I'm wondering

 

[Chrisfish]

Welcome to R2R, nice tank

 

[Jonathon Jenkins]

Welcome to R2R, nice tank

Any suggestions

 

[fish farmer]

Are you going to upgrade when the fish get bigger. IMO that's too many fish. I've had a 38 gallon and currently a 29 gallon and I usually have three or four fish similar to what you have. I have 2 mature percula clowns in my 29 now. I did have a royal gramma which recently passed and he was around 3.5 inches and that tank was looking full with just those three fish. The gramma was getting aggressive toward my clowns, but did hide alot. I'm planning on adding a sixline wrasse which has done well for me in small tanks.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Looks pretty darned good. I agree , those fish will get big.

You’ll need more snails eventually.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Too much fishes. Keep up on the weekly water changes, 25% will keep water quality high.

 

[Jonathon Jenkins]

Are you going to upgrade when the fish get bigger. IMO that's too many fish. I've had a 38 gallon and currently a 29 gallon and I usually have three or four fish similar to what you have. I have 2 mature percula clowns in my 29 now. I did have a royal gramma which recently passed and he was around 3.5 inches and that tank was looking full with just those three fish. The gramma was getting aggressive toward my clowns, but did hide alot. I'm planning on adding a sixline wrasse which has done well for me in small tanks.

I said I plan to upgrade right next to the coral angel on list. I'll probably upgrade in 3-5 months to a 55-75 gal. Are you saying it's too much because you have had that much and lost fish or just because you think it's allot. I said my water is at 0 on nitrate, nitrite, ammonia

 

[Jonathon Jenkins]

Too much fishes. Keep up on the weekly water changes, 25% will keep water quality high.

How many is a good number of water quality is fine

 

[fish farmer]

I said I plan to upgrade right next to the coral angel on list. I'll probably upgrade in 3-5 months to a 55-75 gal. Are you saying it's too much because you have had that much and lost fish or just because you think it's allot. I said my water is at 0 on nitrate, nitrite, ammonia

That is better info, I was going to say it would be fine if that was a 55 gal+ to give room for growth, territory, etc. I used to have way more fish in a 38 gal years ago, tang, wrasse, panther grouper, trigger, mandarin and an americal eel. They all did fine before I tore the tank down, I was running a trickle filter/UG filter, but they would have grown out of the tank eventually.