Fuel my goby addiction

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So I may be a little obsessed with cleaner gobies. I have a sharknose goby that I adore. I was thinking that I'd like to get another cleaner goby species, but I have two concerns.
1) I'm worried about compatibility. I'm most interested in neon gobies and yellowline gobies, but I'm worried my sharknose will go after them.
2) I'm worried about stocking. I've listed my stocking and equipment below. Cleaner gobies are small and the other fish pretty much keep to themselves so I'm not really worried about crowding, but I am a little bit concerned about bioload.

20g High Reef
Aquaclear 30 HOB
Dymax IQ Skimmer
AI Nero 3
AI Prime 16 HD Reef
Aqueon 50W Heater
17 Pounds Live Rock
Cleaning+Maintenance+25% WC 1x a week

Softies and LPS
2 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Trochus Snails
1 Bumblebee Snail
1 Emerald Crab
1 Tiger Pistol Shrimp

Blade (Male Onyx Percula)
Ghost (Female Maine Blizzard Percula)
2 Yellow Watchman Gobies (Mated Pair)
1 Sharknose Goby

Would I be able to get 1 or 2 more cleaner gobies, or would that be a bad idea?
 

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So I may be a little obsessed with cleaner gobies. I have a sharknose goby that I adore. I was thinking that I'd like to get another cleaner goby species, but I have two concerns.
1) I'm worried about compatibility. I'm most interested in neon gobies and yellowline gobies, but I'm worried my sharknose will go after them.
2) I'm worried about stocking. I've listed my stocking and equipment below. Cleaner gobies are small and the other fish pretty much keep to themselves so I'm not really worried about crowding, but I am a little bit concerned about bioload.

20g High Reef
Aquaclear 30 HOB
Dymax IQ Skimmer
AI Nero 3
AI Prime 16 HD Reef
Aqueon 50W Heater
17 Pounds Live Rock
Cleaning+Maintenance+25% WC 1x a week

Softies and LPS
2 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Trochus Snails
1 Bumblebee Snail
1 Emerald Crab
1 Tiger Pistol Shrimp

Blade (Male Onyx Percula)
Ghost (Female Maine Blizzard Percula)
2 Yellow Watchman Gobies (Mated Pair)
1 Sharknose Goby

Would I be able to get 1 or 2 more cleaner gobies, or would that be a bad idea?
I would say you can get 2 at a push but that’s just me with 6 fish in my 20g Max nano:
- Black Clown Goby
- Yasha Goby
- Linear Blenny
- Pink streaked wrasse
- Blue Star Leopard Wrasse
- Naoko Fairy Wrasse

The last two are temporary and will be replaced by two other fish.
 

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So I may be a little obsessed with cleaner gobies. I have a sharknose goby that I adore. I was thinking that I'd like to get another cleaner goby species, but I have two concerns.
1) I'm worried about compatibility. I'm most interested in neon gobies and yellowline gobies, but I'm worried my sharknose will go after them.
2) I'm worried about stocking. I've listed my stocking and equipment below. Cleaner gobies are small and the other fish pretty much keep to themselves so I'm not really worried about crowding, but I am a little bit concerned about bioload.

20g High Reef
Aquaclear 30 HOB
Dymax IQ Skimmer
AI Nero 3
AI Prime 16 HD Reef
Aqueon 50W Heater
17 Pounds Live Rock
Cleaning+Maintenance+25% WC 1x a week

Softies and LPS
2 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Trochus Snails
1 Bumblebee Snail
1 Emerald Crab
1 Tiger Pistol Shrimp

Blade (Male Onyx Percula)
Ghost (Female Maine Blizzard Percula)
2 Yellow Watchman Gobies (Mated Pair)
1 Sharknose Goby

Would I be able to get 1 or 2 more cleaner gobies, or would that be a bad idea?
have you got a pic of your tank mate?
 

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