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12-10-2010, 04:44 PM
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Rate my tank bio load
hi guys,
I got all my wanted fishes and gonna make a 400 gallon tank once all my tangs grow bigger. I am just curious what you rate my current tank bio load. 6feet - 155 Gallon Bow Front and 33gal Sump with refugium, Fishes: Angels: Golden , multi color , flame , emperor , angel Tangs: 3'' Hippo, 4'' Salfin tang, 3'' chevron tang, 3'' purple tang, 2'' sohal Anthias: 2'' square triangle, 2'' barllet Blenny: bicolor, lawnmover Goby: yellow, tangaroa Hawkfish: flame hawk Others: Blue Damselfish, pair of true percs Clowns, pair of royal gamma, Spotted Dragonet, cleaner wrasse, six line wrasse,3 blue chromis Inverts: Mated pair Coral Branded Shrimp, pair cleaner shrimp, Hermit Crabs, Black Longspine Urchin, trio tuxedo urchin, anemones, snails, blue starfish Coral: some LPS and some SPS I think it is heavy load but my lfs thinks i can fit more fishes. What do you think? All fishes are happy I also have a RSM130 setup for corals only with 2 peppermint shrimps. I was wondering would a coral only tank will have high bio load? I am thinking of adding a bio pellets but not sure if it worth the hassle. I do 10% water change every week for both tank Thanks Last edited by Coleus; 12-10-2010 at 07:59 PM. 
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12-10-2010, 04:55 PM
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Personally, I feel bioload is dependant on your setup.
Maybe there is too many fish for the size of tank, but if you have sufficient skimming, water changes and so forth, you may be just fine. I myself, probably have a high bioload also... But running 2 skimmers, good water changes every week. And my tank is clear. I keep fish alive, maybe not my coral though. 
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12-10-2010, 05:21 PM
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To me that sounds like a full load for a 400g reef, for a 155g with corals that sounds pretty extremely high. If it were FOWLR it might be totally fine though and that could where the LFS is coming from with their suggestions.
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12-10-2010, 05:29 PM
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you do not mention the size of the angels and tangs, they 1-3" or 5"+?
the only fish that seems out of place to me is the sohal tang
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12-10-2010, 05:33 PM
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