How many more fish?

[LittleBee]

Hey guys. Hope you are all having a swell afternoon just a quick Q. I have a 93g reef with a 30g sump. I'm not sure how many fish can go in this tank without it being overstocked. Right now I have...

1 melanurus wrasse
1 Christmas wrasse
1 mccoskers flasher wrasse
1 new guinea wrasse
1 lyretail hogfish
1 lined tamarin wrasse
1 engineer goby
1 one spy foxface rabbitfish
1 starry blenny

So thats nine fish.. And I know the general rule is about 10g per inch of fish. I do no weekly water changes and I run a reef octopus skimmer rated for 150g I believe. Soo do you think it's stocked 100%? It doesn't seem crowded at all. I wanted to add a couple more fish like a few blue reef chromis for the open areas of the tank and maybe one other fish..something unique but don't know if that would be too crowded. I also have lots of live rock. It's about 50-60 lbs maybe more but it's the pukani rock so its very lightweight rock and there is a lot of it So there is lots of natural filtration. Anyways, just wanted to give you a rundown of what I have going on so you can better answer my question! so tell me what you think

 

[Randrew215]

You do no weekly water changes? Is this what you meant to type? Not being snarky, just clarifying.

 

[LittleBee]

Oh! I'm sorry lol I do BI weekly water changes... Lmao my fish would all be dead if I didn't do water changes haha

 

[SkiFletch]

I suppose it depends on your goals Brittany. If you're not over-feeding and don't think you're over-run by algae(s) requiring constant maintenance, maybe you do have room for more fish. Are fish more important to you thank corals? You can certainly have a tank that's high on fish and low on coral. That may or may not be easy for you to take care of. Me, I tend to like thriving corals more than I do fish, so if it were MY tank, I'd probably be happy with that amount of stocking.

 

[LittleBee]

I love both fish and coral. My goal is obviously a wrasse tank. That goal is accomplished but now my goal is a euphyllia dominated tank. As much as I love my wrasses the tank just doesn't seem complete without a couple different types of fish. But I don't want to be pushing the limits too far where I do have to maintain the tank too much. Although I will be without a job soon and won't have a shortage of time lol.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

before I saw this last post

before I saw this last post

I was wondering if you had a thing for Wrasses!

Give me the Tamarin and you have room for more fish :beachbum:
All kidding aside, I think your idea of adding a Bristletooth Tang was a good one now that I've seen your fish list.

 

[albano]

And I know the general rule is about 10g per inch of fish.

Absolutely, positively 100% wrong...forget that 'general rule', it is useless information! Does anyone with a 40 or 50g tank only have 2 or 3 two inch fish?
Is a 4" bar goby 'bigger' than a 3" angel

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

did you see this thread?

 

[LittleBee]

Ha! You found one! My lfs has been telling me they haven't been able to get their hands on one so I kinda gave up for a bit.. Don't really want to buy one online, rather get one local.