Am I overstocked?

mitchrapp

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I have a 75 gallon FOWLR with 25 gallons in the sump. 75 lbs live rock, 2 inch sandbed. RLSS r6i skimmer. It's about 8 months old. Weekly water changes of around 16-18 gallons.

ammonia - 0, nitrites - 0, nitrates - 0, phosphates <.05 ppm

2 ocellaris (1"-2")
2 longnose hawkfish (3"-4")
1 blue dot puffer (3")
1 valentini puffer (1.5")
1 one spot foxface (3")

1 coral beauty (2.5") in QT

Everyone gets along, no aggression, eating fine, healthy. Do you think the coral beauty would be my last addition or can I add another fish after it?

My bioload doesn't seem that great as my skimmer doesn't pull that much out. I have to skim wet and only empty the cup maybe once a week.
 
I would say your full and your foxface is going to need a bigger tank soon.

Without adding another algae grazer, you would most likely be fine. However, adding an algae grazer may make your foxface nip at LPS corals in order to get the zooxanthellae as a food supplement.
 
Thanks. Yeah, I currently have a FOWLR. Been toying with adding some LPS like euphyllia, but may just stick with a FOWLR. If I do stick with just a FOWLR, I may add a pearscale butterfly.

Incidentally, my foxface is by best eater. Eats everything I throw at it - mysis, clams, live blackworms, shrimp, mysis shrimp, nori, and NLS pellets.
 
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