how many fish do you have?!

[dmilne85]

Hey everyone.
im curious to see what kind of bioload people have in there sps tanks. right now i have a 120 gallon tank with a 40 gallon sump and i have 2 anthias, 2 false percula clowns, 1 sailfin tang, 1 hippo tang, and 1 sixline wrasse.(8 fish tottal)

id like to add a few more fish but do not want to compromise the coloration and health of my corals.

For those who feel they have a healthy, colorful corals and fish, how many fish do you have, what kind, and what size is your tank?
if you would like to show pics, go ahead. i would just like to see and hear how other people are loading up there sps tanks with fish.

[Nuuze]

Let's see...

I have:

1 maroon
2 Anthias
1 Tricolor wrasse
1 sixline wrasse
1 yellow wrasse
1 Tomini tang
1 Spotted mandarin
1 Scissor tail goby
1 Randalls Goby

...in my 79G filled with SPS.

[slojmn]

In my 70g sps tankI have:

1 foxface
2 clowns
1 yellow watchman goby
1 mandarin dragonette
2 resplendent hybrid anglefish

total 7 fish...I use to have 9 but I moved 1 to the new LPS tank and 1 went carpet surfing some months back . I have had a mixed LPS/SPS tank for the past couple of years so I have been feeding the LPS and fish pretty heavily. Now that I am moving the LPS to their own system (I may leave a few in the sps tank and I will have some SPS in the LPS tank) I will probably feed a bit less but not much. When params are stable and all is well my sps colors are great. I do run Zeovit which helps to maintain my phosphates around .01-.04 on any given week. I don't really have plans o geting anymore fish for the SPS tank at this time. My foxface is a bit of a pest, he likes to herd everyone else into the rocks and have the tank to himself, lol. The clowns and the angles don't really listen to him and the mandarin and watchman goby are rock dwellers anyways. The reason I moved the other fish is because he harassed it so much ot keep it in the rocks.

Nuuze,
We are close and I have never seen your tank. We need to plan a visit .

[icliao]

In my 1000GL I have:
Threadfin Anthias 12
Yellow stripe Anthias 10
Green Chromis 12
Yellow Tang 1
Purple Tang 1
Powder Blue Surgeon 1
Sohal Tang 1
Hippo Tang 1
Flame Angel 1
Porter Angel 1
Majestic Angel 1
Scooter Dragonet 1
Mandarin goby 1
Purple Fire goby 2
Bangel Cardinal 3
Sand Perch 2
Sunrise Dotty back 1
Orchard Dotty back 1
Brazilian Gramma 1
Copperband butterfly 1
Flame Hawk 1
Percula Clown 1
Bi-color Blenny 2

[02REDZ28]

In my 75 gallon I have...

1 Eiblii Angelfish
1 Big Eye Squirrel
1 Striated Bristletooth Tang
1 6 Line Wrasse

In my 45 gallon I have...

3 BG Chromis
1 Sunrise Chromis
1 Solomon Islands A. clarkii
1 Black Velvet Damsel
1 Blue Devil Damsel

[Michael7979]

In my 100g I have:
a Red Sea Sailfin Tang
Red Social Wrasse
Spotted Mandrain
LMB
Had a Doliatus rabbit (until recently)

Also had a school of 8 chromis at one time but removed them

So now 4 in a 100g but had 13 at the highest point

[sirreal63]

I guess I am a rebel as I do things that are contrary to popular belief for keeping sps.

In the 125 I have
1-Yellow Tang (adult)
1-Scopas Tang
2-Percula's
2-Clarkii's
2-Banghaii Cardinals
1-Royal Gramma
1-10" Engineer Goby
1-Coral Beauty
1-spotted Mandarin

I feed heavy every other day, I actually have sand in my tank. :P I am not really afraid of nutrients in my tank and my corals under 10K bulbs look great, have good color and grow very well. I don't run 400 watt bulbs, just two 150's and one 250. I don't freak out if there is a patch or two of hair algae, when it gets big enough to tear off the rock I do so and use it to export nutrients. I never spot feed anything other than the two S.Tapetum anemone's who get a pc of krill every few weeks or so. I feed the tank home made fish goo from the seafood market highly pulverized and blended with larger chunks for the larger mouths that need to be fed.

I run a low dose of ozone (25mg), phosban and carbon in a cannister filter and have chaeto in the sump. Since I stopped worrying so much about nutrients in the tank and stopped trying to create a sterile tank my sps grow faster, look better and PE is better. It isn't for everyone but for the past 7 months now my tank has done better than ever before. IMHO the key is to have a tank that is mature and able to process waste nutrients. It has a long ways to go still but everything is fat and happy and growing.

Plenty of pics here...
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v362/sirreal63/125/

[dmilne85]

thanks for sharing everyone. anyone else?

[J. Montgomery]

55 gallon mixed reef:

2 False Percula Clownfish
2 Firefish
1 Royal Gramma
1 Green Clown Goby
1 Blue/Green Chromis

[Nuuze]

Originally posted by slojmn
Nuuze,
We are close and I have never seen your tank. We need to plan a visit .

Sure slojmn! I am in Fairfield. I met a few RC'rs in your area for some trades. (Prodman, Brianbigoats and Treesmoker)

[jeffbrig]

250g reef, mostly sps

1 achilles tang
1 yellow tang
1 tomini tang
2 perc clowns
1 skunk clown
1 target mandarin
1 anthia
1 flame hawk

(yes, I need more fish)

[Dog boy Dave]

In 180 I have 1 Adult Majestic angel, large copper band, juvenile Emperator, large magnificent fox face, medium yellow fox face, medium rabbit fish, algae blenney, powder brown tang, small pink grama, six line wrass in the sump also, plumbed into the same system with DSB and large carpets are a pair of clown fish.

[gasman059]

200g
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum last count about 30.
Skim a lot feed a lot.
6-7 wrasses
10 anthias(various)fatheads-lyretail-tonga etc.
hippo/yellow/powder blue
Genicanthus x1
5 gobies/blennies
tilefish x 1
clowns x 3

The core fish in this tank have been well and thriving for 6 months
I would say about 75% of the entire list has been in my reef for about that long .
Some recent loses-wrasse and helfrichs.

[dmilne85]

wow thats alot of fish gasman. how do the corals take that bioload?

[gasman059]

Originally posted by dmilne85
wow thats alot of fish gasman. how do the corals take that bioload?

like this lots of food available.
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[powdertang05]

icliao be careful of those bi colors they went ape **** on all my sps ive had 2 they both loved my sps

[Wazzel]

In my 150 I have

1-purple tang
1-blue spot, yello eye tank
1-maroon clown
1-6 line wrasse
1-coral beauty angle
2- PJ cardnials

I have plans to add atlease three more fish more. My skimmer is rated for 250 gallons and I got tons of flow so I think I am good.

[teen]

in my 30 gallon i have

1 sixline wrasse
1 maroon clown
1 lawnmower blenny

anybody think i can add another fish?

[SDguy]

I have 20 fish in my tank. I have a big skimmer. I have had to learn which corals do well (color-wise) in my environment (i.e. ORA tort) and which do not (i.e. my beautiful chocolate brown humilis )

[miwoodar]

65 gallon SPS, well skimmed, with 4 fish:
- Yellow Tang
- Hippo Tang
- 6-line Wrasse
- Watchman Goby

I haven't bought or lost a fish in over a year.

[Deepsea2005]

300 gallons
1. Sohal tang
1. Yellow tang
1. Purple tang
1. Powder Blue tang
1. Hippo yellow belly tang
1. Black tang
1. Magnificent Foxface
1. Pair of goldtrim Maroon clown
1. African Pygmy Angelfish

[Tank Razed]

120 gallon

1 - sailfin tang
11 - chromis
2 - Bangaii cardinals
1 - yellow choris
1 - orchid dottyback
1 - orange skunk

17 fish in a heavily fed, heavily skimmed system

[Vanquish]

Have about 60 fishes in my 250g... mainly anthias and tangs... :P

[hobogato]

the following two tanks are tied together to the same sump/'fuge/skimmer

240 gal display

1 - 10"+ vlamingi tang
2 - lg yellow tangs
1 - lg hippo
1 - med clown tang
8 - blk/white 3 stripe damsels
1 - copperband bfly
1 - lg gsm clown
1 - lg harlequin tusk
1 - lg yellow coris
1 - sm leopard wrasse
1 - lg algae blennie
1 - lg royal gramma
1 - spotted hawkfish
1 - sixline wrasse
1 - red mandarin
1 - pistol shrimp/goby pair
3 - lg PJ cardinnals
last two fish to add
1 - radiant wrasse
1 - two spot wrasse

50 gallon clam tank

1 - volitan lion (about to outgrow the tank)
1 - marine beta
1 - sixline wrasse
1 - sm sailfin tang

coral colors? pretty good

[rutz81]

In my 75G:
1-Blue Throat Trigger
2-Maroon Clowns
2-Anthias
1-Purple Tang
1-Sixline Wrasse
3-Chromis

All fish are over 2 years in the tank.