How many inches of fish for a 33 gallon tank?

[petjunkie]

I have a 33 long set up for over a year with a maroon clown and a coral beauty angelfish and about a month ago was given a cleaner wrasse for free. I put him in my tank and then found out they get like 5 inches which was two inches more than I had planned on putting in ( I wanted to add a sixline). There's about 65 lbs. of live rock in there but no skimmer because the tank position sucks and I can't figure out a way to put one in that I could reach to empty with a filter on the tank also. It's on the bottom of a double tank stand against a wall with about three inches clearance so I hadn't planned on adding anything until I got the tank moved again to the top so I could add one. I'm kinda concerned because now I'm feeding at least twice a day a bunch more food than normal because my clownfish is a very aggressive eater and the wrasse only eats frozen shrimp and formula two. How many inches of fish do you recommend for a 33 gallon tank?

 

[nemo's mom]

Most people will tell you 1 fish for every 10 gallon. One of my books suggests 1" of fish for every 4 gallons of water. Hope this helps...

 

[sfe]

Originally Posted by Nemo's Mom
Most people will tell you 1 fish for every 10 gallon. One of my books suggests 1" of fish for every 4 gallons of water. Hope this helps...
It mainly depends on the bioload you want. Yes you can get 1 fish per 10 gallons but say you got a grouper or an eel than that rule wouldn't apply since they are messy eaters and have a big bioload. But assuming that you don't have messy fish, I would go with 1 fish per 10 gallons. But make sure the fish doesn't get too big.

 

[jr2857]

and it depends on the girth cause sfe's grow to i believe around 30 inches but are thinner than normal fishes. but the only require 55 gallons to make it alive as an adult but bigger is always better

 

[jr2857]

Originally Posted by SFE
It mainly depends on the bioload you want. Yes you can get 1 fish per 10 gallons but say you got a grouper or an eel than that rule wouldn't apply since they are messy eaters and have a big bioload. But assuming that you don't have messy fish, I would go with 1 fish per 10 gallons. But make sure the fish doesn't get too big.
you can also get really GOOD filteration