Am I crazy?

[waverz]

I have a 125 gallon SPS tank, hooked to it is a 40 gallon sump which contains about 7 mangroves and macro algae. I also have a 100 gallon rubbermaid tub with LR and a HUGE wad of macro algae growing in that. For a skimmer I am running a Octo NW-200 skimmer. I do 15% water changes once a week, but here is my question, do you think i have too many fish? I just got 8 more anthias this week and might have gone a little overboard.

For fish i have:

14 lyretail anthias
1 powder brown tang
1 hippo tang
4 blue chromis
1 psudochromis
1 royal gramma
1 sixline wrasse
1 occelarus clown
1 mandarin gobie
1 sml yellow spot goby
1 4 stripe damsel

So far my i have 0 nitrates so all is well, if i start showing an increase in nitrates i might have to sell a couple. We will see.

Here's a pic of the tank.

 

[Larah]

WOW! Gorgeous! Simply Gorgeous!
How does the damsel behave with everyone else?

 

[jjkief86]

Sound good to me. Large schools of Anthias are always a good thing.

 

[waverz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11925465#post11925465 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Larah
WOW! Gorgeous! Simply Gorgeous!
How does the damsel behave with everyone else?

He's an old man, seriously he's over 5 years old, he likes to act tough for a bit then i think he runs out of gas.

He's not near as mean as the clown shes just a royal beeootch.

 

[Ritten]

Stunning! 14 Anthias? How often do you feed?

 

[waverz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11925520#post11925520 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ritten
Stunning! 14 Anthias? How often do you feed?

3 times a day....

 

[widmer]

My thoughts.....

1. As far as the water paramaters, if the SPS are healthy, the fish must be too; consider what any given level of nitrates nitrites or ammonia would do to the coral vs fish...

2. As far as the fish being content and peaceful with eachother, that's up to you to observe.

3. As far as the aesthetics, my personal opinion is with that many fish it looks a little too busy and takes away from the peacefulness of the reef.

4. Your coral is gorgeous btw.

 

[BLKTANG]

not to many IMO with 265g of TWV.

Looks great,& your SPS will love all the poop.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

I think that fish list is great. It's not too many fish because only 2 are large (the tangs). If anything, add some more chromis!

At first, the numbers sound heavy, but considering that anthias and chromis like to be crowded, its not an issue. We're not dealing with angelfish, butterflies, rabbitfish, etc... and only two tangs. And the pseudo, wrasse, gramma, mandarin, and goby probably spend half their time in the rockwork anyway, so they arent adding as much to the "crowded" feel.

 

[waverz]

Thanks for the input guys, LA had an pretty good sale on the anthias and def. thought i went a little overboard.