Max fish in 90g

[Shu]

I recently upgraded to a 90g tank. I was wandering what the max fish you can have here. What I have now is a

1 yellow tale damsel
1 ocs clown
1 six line wrasse.

I want to add a blue hippo and yellow tang. Maybe something else.

What do you guys think?

[lakers10]

i have a lot of fish in my 55g it just all depends what filtration u have and type like bottom dwellers and so on


in my opinion

[Shu]

I have 30 gallon sump with and octopus skimmer thank its rated at 110 gallons

[lakers10]

I think thats a pretty good of filtration... u should consider some type of goby i love there personality's

[Shu]

Yeah I forgot to add that when I got the tank he gave me a port a blenny. Jeeze these things are crazy fast. They just dart from rock to rock.

[lakers10]

yeah do u have a pic of them i really want one where did u get yours from??

[Shu]

I have 2 others in my 36 gallon I might be able to part with. Catching them would difficult though.
I will try to snap one tonight

[lakers10]

yeah there real cool and interesting..

[Shu]

They are not really colorful so sometimes hard to see. Let me know if your interested.

[Europhyllia]

I think you might get lots of different opinions on that. I have a pair of ocellaris, a pair of mandarins and a few PJ cardinals in a 125g. I am sure some would say it could take more fish bioload (I have 2 refugium areas and a good skimmer) but I hate watching stressed fish.
For me there is somewhat of a 'psychological' limit to how many fish can be happy in a tank.
Right now my mandarins are doing their little false spawning every evening and the female looks like she's developing eggs. The Clownfish are spawning. The Cardinals are doing their cardinal thing. Eveybody is happy and content enough to display their full species specific behavior.
I like that. I added a small tang - perfectly acceptable if you are just looking at bio load- and it messed things up for the cardinals and clowns - it just wasn't worth it.
For me less is more. You can always add some other little critters to add interest.

[lakers10]

yea i am interested lol

and yeah there so many things u have to consider when stocking your tank

[Kyle46N]

Keep in mind the "living/swimming zones" for each species of fish. This can allow you to get closer to your max bioload without stressing the fish. You wouldn't want a tank full of open swimmers. Blennies, gobies, fish that are in an out of rock structure, open swimmers.....then you have to add compatability too. With some research you can figure it out and have a good combo. The way to mess it up is to impulse buy.

[ErikH]

pick fish from the same biotope. Get rid of the yellow tail before it eats your corals. Dont ask how I know. :)

[Shu]

It just hard for me to since it was my first fish. If I can catch him I probably would.