Is this too many fish for my tank

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hiphophippo8

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I have a 55 gallon aquarium in the works and I wanted to know if my fish list would be ok. I have 90lbs of live sand, 15lbs of live rock, and 40lbs of marco base rock. There are tons of hiding places, tunnels, etc. Currently I have two damsels that I plan on moving to another tank soon and a diamond goby. My diamond goby has ich so I am currently treating all my fish and Im not adding anymore until I kill all the ich. I dont plan on getting all these fish at once, It will be spread out over a year or so.

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pair of Clowns
pair of diamond gobies (already have one)
yellow watchmen
pistol shrimp
cleaner shrimp

That is all I plan on having right now I might add one or two more but Im not sure yet.
 
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KillerReef

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not at all, dude. you'll be fine. IMO, you could even add a couple more. I personally consider diamond gobies as part of the CUC. What are you using as filtration?

I would rcommend getting more Live Rock, though...
 
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OHreefer

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The number of fish is perfectly fine. Shrimp don't really count much towards the bioload of the tank so I don't know if you were counting those as "fish." Shrimp, snails, corals, etc don't count towards bioload.
 
wm23oh

wm23oh

Member
Be careful when putting two Gobies in the same tank. I suggest researching to make sure they are compatible.

James
 
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hiphophippo8

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ok thanks everyone and ive been doing research about the gobies and cant find bad things about the two not likeing each other. For filtration I have a algae scrubber. I wanted the yellow watchmen to pair up with the pistol shrimp and the two diamond gobies to pair up. I was wondering if any other goby would pair up with a diamond one because ive seen blue spots pair up with yellow watchmens? I just thought it would be cool to have three different kinds of gobies if they were all compatable with each other.
 
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