Overstocked?

[Matt L.]

Okay, as I always say, if you have to ask if you are overstocked, then you are overstocked, but I am curious if I am near, at, or exceeded the stocking capacity of my tank.

I have an established 6ft 125gal tank with what I would say is a lot of rock and coral. I skim and use a sulfur denitrator, but at the time, have no refugium. I dutifully do a 20% water change every week to keep nitrates near zero.

I have:

• 1 Majestic Angel 5"
• 1 Tenneti Tang 6"
• 5 Lyretail Anthias (1.5" to 3" each, pretty uniformly distributed in that size range)
• 1 mated pair of true percula clowns (1.5" and 3")
• 1 yellow headed solon fairy wrasse 4"
• 1 Mystery Wrasse 3.5"

I think that comes out to a total of 32" or something.

The Tenneti tang is almost full grown, and the Majestic Angel, while not full grown, grows at a very slow pace. Most of the other fish will not get much larger (maybe the Mystery wrasse will, but that is it).

I do not plan to upgrade int he near future.

I have always felt like there was a little more room, and I had thought about a zoster butterfly. My question is, will a typical zoster butterfly acquired at 2.5" - 4" fit? Will more than one fit? I suspect they do better in groups.

Three at 4 inches would bring me to 44", although the stocking density calculation of inch per volume is obsolete.

Matt

 

[deuceb]

matt i think u r fine i have 15 fish in 90 largaest being a 4in yellow tang

 

[Joel A]

i think you're fine as long as that majestic doesn't get real big anytime soon =)

 

[Matt L.]

i think you're fine as long as that majestic doesn't get real big anytime soon =)

He has grown 2" in 5 years, and while he continues to grow, I don't expect him to get to 7" in another 5 years

Matt

 

[Joel A]

how do you like your tenetti tang? I was thinking of getting one...