Too many fish?

JJ70

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I have a 75 gal with 30 gal sump maybe 80 gals total water. I currently have 3 chromis, 2 clowns, 1 yellow watchman. I was thinking about getting a 6 line to help with some bristleworms. Anything I should be worried about?
 
The sixline will be a minor consumer of bristleworms, since many will survive. This is a good thing, however, since the vast majority of these worms are completely beneficial (acting as both scavengers and detritivores).
 
But if you're keeping sps, you need the worms: they break down the fish poo into a size the sps can absorb.
 
You'd be fine with that many fish.

I doubt a Sixline Wrasse could get all the bristleworms in the tank cause theres a lot of area in the rock that he can't reach. My Sixline doesn't even eat bristleworms, I've seen him swim past them all the time.
 
OK. The reason I'm freaking out is that I pulled two worms off a rock of tubs blue zoos after loosing 3 or 4 polyps in one night.
 
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