sooooooo overstocked

Went to a friend of a friends house to scope out his set up bc its similar to mine(210 dt 120 sump) he has a 225 and a 120 sump.his coral are growing like crazy but he has enough fishh to fill a a 550 gallon tank. He tested the tank right infrint of me ...5ppm nitrates 0. Nitrates 0 ammonia....crazyness...he's running 4 c skim 1800s brs jumbo carbon and gfo. He just started running bio pellets and his fuge has a basketball sized clump of cheato....also he has no nuisance algea issues that I could see...what givves

 

Well the problem with that is you can clean the water but an overstocked tank is a recipe for disaster.IMO

 

Just give it some time before the overstocked tank crashes.

 

Exactly, one problem and the whole thing has the potential to come crashing down.

 

i 100% agree with everything already stated...but all im gonna say is those reactors he is running IME is one of our best friends in this hobby..

 

heres my buddies 210..he prolly has at least 65 fish in it at least of all sizes and thats prolly an understatement.. he has multiple reactors and 2 huge deltec skimmers, and does mad water changes.. its been up 6 years all ran from an iphone, its crazy...

 

^^this ;D

 

6 years?! That's amazing... has it been stocked like that for most of it's lifetime with no ill effects??? I guess that's the thing about this hobby. There's always another way to do it. Some will agree with you, some will not. That's nuts

 

yeah, i guess he knows what hes doing.. its def a nice tank

no its just keeps getting stocked as time goes on and see a fish or two he likes...he does have 3 tanks all plumbed together i think around 1000 gallons all total.. its a pretty sick set up he has

but he has hella equipment, reactors, skimmers, dosers, auto water changes, multiple rodi units running at all times storing water and mixing water and doing water changes... i always ask him how much he has in this tank and he said he quit counting a few years ago at 35K$

 

Hey, I've seen my fair share of overstocked tanks, and sometimes it works for some ppl. What all does he have in that thing?