Overstocking ???

[Yazoo1970]

Well i am thinking of adding a new fish to the collection however my tank is starting to get a little full i think. My params are right on 0 amonia 0 nitrites and less than 10 nitrates i have a 55 gallon tank with approx 130lbs of live rock and 60 lbs of live sand. it is a 55 gallon long by the way. i have the following in the tank
1 mandarian (that is actually eating brine, zooplankton, and pods)
2 scooter blennies
1 sand sifting star
1 horseshoe crab
10 ast snails
2 damsals
3 yellow tangs
I was wanting to add a naso tang i am aware that the tangs will outgrow the tank eventually. I am finishing my game room and it is going to have a much larger tank set up in there i plan to transfer them, however is this going to be to much of a load for this tank thanks for your responses

Oh yeah there is the mantis shrimp in there that i can't catch but it does not seem to be causing problems right now

 

[aresgod]

yea I would say you are too heavily stocked if you added a naso, those tangs will all grow fast, and unless the tank switch is in the immediate future I wouldn't recoomend it also simply because of lack of territory. They will probably fight.

 

[dbacksrat]

don't mandarins and scooters have similar feeding requirements? also, the damsels might take control of the entire tank...then you have the sand sifting star and the horseshoe crab, whom both need a large dsb (a 55 won't be nearly enough) or will surely starve to death over time

 

[tammielynz9881]

i totally agree with aresgod