Fish limit for 75 gallon

[Westbery]

I have 2 clownsfish, 1 yellow watchman goby, 1 lawn mower blenny, 2 chromis, 3 peppermint shrimp and 1 pistol shrimp. Can I put an other fish in the tank or have a reached my limit?

If I havent reached my limit, any suggestions?

[kfisc]

Yes if not very close to reaching the limit- it all depends on your total system size, skimming, parameters, etc., but the inhabitants you have now would be very happy if they had the place to themselves from here out.

[Mattik]

I have 2 oci clowns, 2 bangaii's, 1 Anthia, 2 yellow tail damsels, 1 engineer gobie, 1 yellow tang, 2 peppermints, and numerous snails and crabs - same size tank.

I have a 29g sump/refugium w/ a good skimmer as well as healthy chaeto, and all does well.

The worst of my crew is my Tang, which requires me to put lots of sheet aglae (aka: sheet detritus) in my tank. If it weren't for that, I would expect to have excellent (as opposed to "Good") water quality. Honestly, the tang probably should count for 3-4 small fish due to the messy feeding requirements.

[Westbery]

Thanks!

[mr.maroonsalty]

If you system is running well, relatively algae/trouble free, I think you can do another med size or a couple small fish, though less is often better; for suggestions i need to know if your top is covered, and are you keeping corals?

[iamwrasseman]

you can add more fish if you go slower and let the tanks biological micro bacteria catch up and even things out . the slower you go the better but never add to much to fast and remember that you still want to be able to purchase fish in the future so don't just fill it just to max it out .as soon as you max it you are certain to find that fish that you always wanted . i always project a three year plan so i can still want to go to stores to purchase fish as if i was to overstock my tank in the beginning i would not be able to shop for livestock and that would not be fun in any way .

[Doc's_reef09]

good rule of thumb 1 ich of fish to every 10 gallons in your system. so u could have about 10 to 12 inchs of fish since yout 75 gallon main and 29 sump.

this is more or less just to be safe also. i had about 4 small fish in a 24gallon auqa pod with near perfect peramiters for a year.

[Tuscaquatics]

I have a 75 and I plan on having more than that. For now I have a cinnamon clown, Niger trigger and lawnmower blenny.

[iamwrasseman]

docs reef09 ,where did you hear that ,petco ?

[mr.maroonsalty]

That's far to conservative for petco; 1" per 10 would mean 2 med tangs in a 120, a small clownfish if it has a 30 gallon sump. Petco is 1"(at time of purchase) per gallon, lol

[Westbery]

Originally Posted by mr.maroonsalty

If you system is running well, relatively algae/trouble free, I think you can do another med size or a couple small fish, though less is often better; for suggestions i need to know if your top is covered, and are you keeping corals?

I think I am going to hold off on getting another fish for now. To answer your question, yes the top is covered (with glass) and yes I have one mushroom rock (with 4 mushrooms on it) eventually I plan on getting a leather toadstool and a blue snowflake polyp but thats it (I think).