Fish per gallon?

[LordDannis]

Currently have a 75 gallon reef tank set up with a built in overflow. Has about 70 lbs of live rock fully cured, and in the overflow i packed it with live rock rubble and sand in the bottom. I have a section with a bit of micro algae and i decided to go with a Redsea Berlin air lift skimmer because i was not able to do an actual sump and i dont think any backpack modles will fit my tank. I currently have 3 carriberry anthia, one yallow tang, a ruby fiary wrasse, carpender flasher wrasse, X-mass wrasse, a niger trigger, a watchman goby and pistol shrimp pair, a painted frogfish, 3 damsles, a flame angle. What is too much for one tank?

[Dave66]

The Niger reaches 18 inches and will eat that shrimp, the anthias must be fed small meals at least every two hours to keep weight on them, frogfish will eventually grow enough to consume the damsels, the wrasses, the goby and any other fish you have that will fit in it's mouth.

Those are the problem fishes I see. Though the tang will top out at eight inches, a stable 75 will be OK. Air Lift skimmers are old technology and not very efficient. Try to find a skimmer with a venturi air injection system. Be a couple bucks more, but far more efficient in removing dissolved organics.

Dave

[LordDannis]

Yea i gotta move that frogfish asap! LOL i keep expecting somthing to come up missing but so far nothing.