Too many fish for our tank?

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Hi All

I know questions like this are asked a lot, but trying to get a handle on what is a workable bioload for our system. We have a Waterbox 100.3. We run a Red Sea max ask 300 skimmer, a carbon media reactor and a gfo reactor. Our current fish stock is as follows:
1 Purple Tank (this is our big fish, no more big fish for this tank)
2. 1 mature Valentini Puffer
3. 1 mature clown fish
4. 1 mature flame fire fish
5. 1 young 6 line wrase
6. 1 very young clown fish.

My son is wanting to add three Blue Green Chromis Damsel or in the alternative a couple Yellow Tailed Blue Damsels.

I am wondering though if our current load is on the heavy side? Currently all fish are fitting in well together, no aggression issues. Wanted to get some input before we make any more changes to our fish population.
 

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I would hope question like this are asked a lot or this would be a boring site ;)

I really don’t see any issues. Not a fan of chromis. I would go yellow tail, but I love damsels . I like cardinals as well If you have not checked them out.

Just stay away from sharks. :p
 

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Chromis will more than likely kill each other until you only have one. If you want schooling fish, try at least 5 threadfin cardinals. Yellowtail blue damsels will set up territories appropriately far apart (they each want a territory about a foot across) and ignore each other.
 

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what are your phosphates and nitrates at? what filtration methods do you use? can the be expanded or made more efficient?
if you are already running high nutrient levels then adding more fish will crash the system.
on the other hand if you are maintaining acceptable levels without extra efforts then you can try adding more fish. initially you will need to do more frequent water changes.
 
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Right now we are changing 8 gallons of water per week, filtration we are running the water box sump, two filter sox first, then in the main sump chamber we have a combination of media blocks, live rock, a skimmer and two media reactors, one running gfo and a second running carbon. Those replies were really helpful. My son is getting really into this so it gave him some valuable input on planning what he wants.

This is a family project, I am kind of final authority, but he gets to pick the fish, do the testing feeding and help with maintenance.
 

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You could definately add some more fish :)
 
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