Bio Load

[StrongBad]

What live stuff in the tank is considered bio load? Is it only the fish, or can you have too many snails, hermits, sea cucumbers, urchins, anemones, or coral?

 

[Phyl]

Snails, hermits, urchins and corals add noticeably little to the bioload on your tank. The bioload caused by the anemone would probably depend on the size and feeding habbits of it.

When people talk bioload they are generally talking about fish as those are the greatest waste producers in your tank.

 

[seaham358]

Not that they add to the bio load but IMO you can have too many snails. In a tank there is only so much food and they can starve over time.