Overstocked?
Hello. First of all, thanks for all the great advice over the past couple years. I greatly appreciate it. Would it be possible to hazard a guess as to whether my 2 year old 75 gallon reef tank is overstocked to the point it just isn’t viable? Emperor 400 filter Precision Marine HOT-1 skimmer, with a RIO 800 (The Maxi jet 1200 it came with made more noise than foam, even after a replacement). 9 mangroves in small refugium, grown from nothing to 12-18 inches in the past eight months; refugium also contains a lot of Caulerpa, which my tangs love. However, even with 6 hours of direct sunlight, the algae doesn’t grow all that fast, which leads me to believe excess nutrients aren’t a huge problem. 2 ZooMed rotating powerheads. Total circulation 800-1000 gph. Around 80-90 lbs heavily coralline’d live rock. Deep sand bed. Corals: Plate coral, 12 inches + in diameter when open, has quadrupled in size in 16 months. Dozens of mushrooms, keep growing and reproducing all the time Pearl Coral, about
