How many fish in 75 reef

[Reef ninja123124]

I have one six line wrasse and a occ clownfish how many more fish could go in a 75 reef

 

[ReefMadScientist]

I have 15 total averaging 5-10 nitrates every two weeks

 

[Reef ninja123124]

What kind of fish

 

[EricTMah]

There's a lot more to this question.

What corals are you planning on keeping?
What filtration are you using/planning on using?
How often are you doing wc's?
Are you using ro/di water?
How heavy do you plan to feed?

I'm at 28 fish in a 120 DT but total system water volume is slightly over 200gals. I currently do 5% wc's weekly then once a month I do a 10-15% wc

It all depends on how much work you're willing to do to maintain your water quality. Also if you plan to run bio pellets or gfo or a fuge?

 

[Aquarium Lights Direct]

all depends on your filtration system and what size skimmer your running, and what size fish you plan on putting in it.

 

[Reef ninja123124]

I don't have a skimmer but have a 200 gallon with uv in it and I feed once a day I use ro water I do water changes like once a month

 

[Reef ninja123124]

And I want to have a lot of coral

 

[Timfish]

Since corals actively pull out nitrates(1), ammonium(2) and phospahtes(3) to feed their Symbodinium spp. dinoflagellate symbionts arguably they can be considred part of the fitlration. One thing you need to take into consideration is how big the fish are going to be in 3 - 5 or more years, the time it takes for many fish to mature like dwarf angels and tangs (some which may take longer than 5 years) to mature. Do not go by the totally bogus rule of thump of so many inches per gallon!


(1) http://wap.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_48/issue_6/2266.pdf
(2) ingentaconnect Ammonium Uptake by Symbiotic and Aposymbiotic Reef Corals
(3) High phosphate uptake requirements of the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata