Second opinion on dragonet/gobie qty in 120 gallon

[Sierra_Bravo]

My 120g has lots of live rock and sand from TBS, fuge with live rock and chaeto, and an unbelieveable amphipod population everywhere you look at night (scuds). I'm sure I have a ton of copepods as well. The tank has been with rock and critters for a year and 3 months.

Sitting here late at night I'm wondering if I might have overstocked my tank with pod eaters. I have a mystery wrasse, two green banded gobies, a yellow watchman goby, and a new ruby red dragonet. The yellow watchman isn't an issue as he only eats in a 3" radius around him. The wrasse is well fed on pellets and LRS, but he does hunt all day. I see the green banded gobies eating pods. But this Ruby Dragonet is a flippin' vacuum cleaner!

I didn't get a mandarin because there was competition in the tank. However, the Ruby Red has surprised me with how he eats constantly for such a small little guy.

I don't think I've over done it, but I'd like to get another opinion just in case.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Diesel]

You’re good.
I have 5 wrasses 2 of them are blue stars and had a breeding pair of ruby reds and a mandarin for years.
I sold off the breeding pair of rubies 2 years ago.
I don’t see any pods but I k own they are there as my mandarin is pretty well fed.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Your system should be fine to support the dragonet with the current stocklist.

 

[Alfrareef]

I’ve gone thru a similar situation but in my case I’ve introduced a 5 line wrasse that wiped the pods population. As result 1 healthy mandarin has died 5-6 months later and the other has gone to a friend tank and recovered.