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[ari5736]

Okay, theoretically if you overstock your tank's bioload, but you are trying to keep low nutrients, DOC, etc...; and you overkill your nutrient export (monster skimmer, huge macro fuge, dsb, nitrate and phosphate reactors), and you successfully keep nitrate and phosphate at near 0 levels, is there any limit to a tanks load of fish.
In otherwords stated if there are 0 phosphates and nitrates, can just pure old dissolved organic compounds kill corals, and/or slow its growth.

I've looked at tanks of the month on reefcentral, and few and far in between, have large angels, groupers, and/or eels in the their often gigantic, well equiped sps tanks.

:bablefish

 

[SevTT]

Okay, theoretically if you overstock your tank's bioload, but you are trying to keep low nutrients, DOC, etc...; and you overkill your nutrient export (monster skimmer, huge macro fuge, dsb, nitrate and phosphate reactors), and you successfully keep nitrate and phosphate at near 0 levels, is there any limit to a tanks load of fish.
In otherwords stated if there are 0 phosphates and nitrates, can just pure old dissolved organic compounds kill corals, and/or slow its growth.

I've looked at tanks of the month on reefcentral, and few and far in between, have large angels, groupers, and/or eels in the their often gigantic, well equiped sps tanks.

:bablefish

If the life support system is sufficient, the only barrier to the number of fish you can put in a tank are the fish themselves -- too crowded, they start getting stressed, fighting, don't have room to move or exercise, etc.