Six Line Wrasse and Mated Goby Pair in 10.5G tank

[mathias999us]

OK, before you get upset at the question, please read my whole post.

I think normally it would be absurd to suggest putting a Six Line Wrasse and a mated Goby pair into a 10.5 gallon tank, but this is a rather unique tank, which gives a LOT of swimming ground-surface area for the water volume. I have a long thread about this in the nano tanks forum, and have asked this question there too, so my apologies if you have already seen this question. You can find my thread here:
http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...ostid=11539972

Quick summary of the tank. It's a custom acrylic nano with a built in sump area. The display holds about 10.5 gallons, and the sump holds another 2-3 gallons. It has almost 21 lbs of LR in it, a skimmer, about 50x turnover, will run with fuge, purigen, and chemi-pure, and weekly 10% water changes. It's outside dimensions are 48" long by 12" deep (front to back) by 8.25" high. A shallow tank like this gives a LOT of territory and swimming area for fishes, which I understand is the main thing they need in a tank, rather than actual gallonage of water volume (assuming you can maintain the water qaulity). Here's a pic:


It has been suggested to me by more than one person that I could probably keep more fish in here than your typical tank of this volume because of its dimensions. I'd like to keep a 6-line and a mated goby pair in here (this will also be an LPS dominated tank, with 1-2 clams, and hopefully some hardier SPS species).

I've calculated the surface area of the floor of the display to be roughly 476 sq in. In order to have a cube with this much floor surface area, the cube would need to be over 21" on each side, yielding around 44 gallons.

Will this be OK, or is this asking too much?

Thanks for your input!