Need Help determining live stock amount

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Hi all new to the website,
I currently am running a 110 gallon tank with 140 gallons of total volume, I am wondering how many fish I can stock in my tank, currently I have:
Fish:
Purple Tang
5 Lyretail anthias
Yellow Watchman Goby
2 Ocellaris Clownfish
Invertebrates:
3 Emerald Crabs
Pistol Shrimp
Fire Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
2 Tiger Conches
10 Turbos
10 nassaurius snails
10 blue hermits
10 red hermits
(just added the purple tang, but the rest have been in for about 2-3 months)
Ideally Id like to get everything on the following list, but understand that the bioload may be too high, so I have ranked in order from what I most desire to add to my tank, please let me know if any of these will not get along well in my tank.
1.Midas blenny
2.Potters Leopard Wrasse
3.Mandarin Dragonet
4.Dragon faced pipefish
5.1-2 clown gobies
6.1-3 blue chromis
7. blue spotted jawfish
8. potential small predator?
-small eel
-small scorpion fish

Any advice or other recommendations would be much appreciated Thank you!
 
Scorpionfish and eel not a good choice with small fish and crabs/shrimp especially. Will have a hard time with a Mandarin unless you have a lot of live pods to feed on as they are specialized feeders. Your Clowns may display aggression with the Chromis’. Usually an inch of fish to 5 gallons of water is good though not all fish deficate the same. Fish like eels, grouper, large angels, puffers, Lionfish, and triggerfish are huge waste producers.
Hope this helps!
 
Made sure to dose tons of pods when I started my tank have tons of them in my tank, so are you saying everything besides the chromis and predator fish would be fine to add overtime?
 
From what I can see and anticipate, yes! Again, their are exceptions to the rule, but gambling with a large tank and investment, it is better to be safe than sorry
 
I think that's a lot of fish for that tank. I have 11 fish in a 108 gallon display and that's a big bioload.
Yellow tang
ruby head wrasse
katoi wrasse
yellow coris wrasse
six line wrasse
kamohara blenny
2 clowns
2 chromis
sunburst anthias
 
Also those fish will eat up all the pods in a short time. So you will constantly be having to dose pods to feed a mandarin. I add pods monthly and hardly ever see any.
 

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