Bioload - High, Low, Just Right?

[robn]

Just wanted to get opinions on my stocking level....
Setup

• Tank - 240 gal
• Live Rock - 370 lbs
• Substrate - 4" CaribSea DSB
• Skimmer - EuroReef CS8-2
• Water movement - 4 AquaClears on Red Sea Wavemaker, 3 Tunze Streams on Tunze Wavemaker, 2 Mag 12 returns, 6300 GPH total
• Sump - 90 gal, 35 of which is refugium
  Stock List

• 7" Blond Naso Tang
• 4" Purple Tang
  2" Pink Skunk Clownfish (2)
  4" BiColor Angel
  3" Blue Hippo Tang
  3" Solar Fairy Wrasse (3)
  4" Red Coris Wrasse
  4" Diamond Watchman Goby (2)
  3" Lawnmower Blenny

My nitrates sit around 5-7.....
Thanks

 

[bang guy]

Seems about right to me.

 

[robn]

Thanks....alot of my stock list are smaller fish that won't grow much more....the LMB maybe 2", the gobies maybe the same, same for the angel. The tangs will all grow out more (hopefully). I know Nasos get large for sure, although I've never seen or heard of one in captivity at their max size of 18" or so. I have kept tangs for a couple of years now, but I swear I've never seen one eat like my blonde naso....he is an eating machine. He's about 2" thick at least.
I would like to add one more tang or maybe a school of damsels, I guess that's why I was looking for opinions with this thread.
Thanks again

 

[bang guy]

I think another Tang would be risky.

 

[gregm779]

looks good to me also, your purple may give any new tang a real hard time, also watch the red coris wrasse if you have any clams he will most likely kill them as he matures.

 

[robn]

The purple tang has been in the longest, then the blue, then the naso....he didn't much care when the blue went in, and the naso is quite a bit bigger than him....curiously, the only fish he has really attacked is the bicolor angel....he was relentless with it for about 3 days and I thought I was going to have to separate them. They pretty much ignore each other now.
The coris wrasse has never picked on my clams, but he will get onto my snails sometimes....maybe he will stay mellow as he matures.