How much is too much bioload for my nano?

[DrewBrees713]

i have a 23 g cube with no skimmer , sump, filter. Got a decent amount of sand and maybe 10lbs of LR.

Right now i have have the following small frags: 1 frogspawn, 2 torches, 4 hammers, 2 acans, 1 rbta. And no fish. I feed a tiny bit of reefroid every otherday.
Can i still add more frags of mostly frogpsawn hammers, torch?

 

[James M]

Corals have very little bio load to a tank

 

[JumboShrimp]

Others will confirm/disagree, but I think the load produced by corals (as opposed to fish) is comparatively very low. But now if you feed your corals like crazy in a nano-- 'there goes the water in your neighborhood'-- especially without a good skimmer. Just my two-cents. Best wishes!

 

[Katrina71]

Agree with above +1

 

[GoPitt88]

Agree with above as well.

 

[brandon429]

You can can have this much coral, they don’t count as bioload

# of clowns you can fit in a vw is equivalent to number of frags you can manage for ten years in a fishbowl. That mess on the glass isn’t coralline it’s the underside of blue sps colonies aiming back into the bowl vs growing off the rocks like normal. It’s sps feet.

 

[DrewBrees713]

Wow thatsjust incredible!!!!

 

[brandon429]

most say it's very ug ha that's cool of you. I just wanted to see how long the vase took to self fill and then I culled half of it back

 

[DrewBrees713]

Thats an amazing feat being the space is confined. Ha i cant keep sps alive in bigger vessel lol

 

[ScubaZ]

I have a 25 gal that has plenty coral, 2 clowns,1 pajama cardinal, and 1 yellow clown goby and I do not run a skimmer either and my tank handles fine with water changes around every 2 weeks. I agree with the above responses of watch how much you feed your corals as too much can mess up your parameters, I’d advise to check your nitrates weekly or more if you are unsure if you are feeding too much.