Ummm too many fish but thriving sps

Falc! · Apr 18, 2022

So I think I have way too many fish but all my corals are MORE than thriving. I’m still needing to dose nitrate in order to maintain levels of 5-10. I feed 3-4 times a day but small amounts. Lots of caves and rocks for them to hide and have personal space. They all sleep individually

reefer 350 - all fish are still small
Yellow tang
Tomini tang
Melaranus wrasse
Yellow Dorris wrasse
Ruby red flasher wrasse
Wyoming white clown
Blue green chromi
Midas blenny
2 stripped fang blennies
2 red firefish
3 lyretail anthias

Possible system crash? Figure since all my acros are doing great, it might be ok

Tamberav · Apr 18, 2022

How old is the tank? It may catch up to you and nutrients may start accumulating. Time will tell.

I think my 80g has just as many fish. Just depends on filtration too.

GARRIGA · Apr 18, 2022

I'm starting to question this notion of ultra low nutrients being bad as general assumption vs just bad in low fed systems. Would make sense that just because you register low numbers doesn't indicate that through out the day all involved are not getting adequately fed plus the mantra is shifting to ammonium or just an infusion of nitrogen being the need and nitrates merely a measuring tool. For example, ammonia in most systems will register as zero yet it's constantly present and being utilized by it's inhabitants which include bacteria as well as possibly zooxanthalle.

When in doubt, I think the health of a system visually should trump testing results.

NowGlazeIT · Apr 18, 2022

When they get too big just swap them out for juvis again.

Falc! · Apr 18, 2022

Tamberav said:
How old is the tank? It may catch up to you and nutrients may start accumulating. Time will tell.

I think my 80g has just as many fish. Just depends on filtration too.

Tank is around a year and good to know others have lots of fish too