120 Gallon Fish Additions

[Lundangler]

My 120 gallon tank has been running for 7 months. I currently have a yellow tang and a blue green chromis. I also have ricordias, zoas and my cleanup crew. I will be adding the following at the end of the week unless i'm convinced otherwise.

5 - Blue Green Chromis
3 - Yellow Tail Damsel
3 - 3 Stripe Damsel
2 - Talbots Damsel
2 - Ocellaris Clownfish
1 - Yellow Watchman Goby
1 - Green Coral Goby
1 - Lawnmower Blenny
1 - Flame Angel
1- Randalls Pistol Shrimp
2 - Peppermint Shrimp

I have about 110 pounds of rock and 1400 gal/hr water turnover in my wet/dry setup.

 

[mbd521]

I have to say that I am brand new with salt water tanks, but you shouldn't add anywhere near that many fish at one time!! the biology cannot handle it!!! you need to add them slowly... MAYBE groups of 3.... as far as stock list I really can't advise on that... seeing as I don't know enough about any of those fish.


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[trinidiver]

mbd521 is correct, thats too much load in that short space of time. And the chromis with so many damsels along with the angel in that size tank will have territorial issues. put the 5 chromis and maybe the lawnmower, then wait a week and add a few more. The 3 stripe are demons. I have 2 four stripe and they beat the hell out of any new fish that i put in that tank. I added a flame just last week and i had to transfer them to a seperate tank. A few wks before, i added a 5" marine betta.................. they chased him all over and made loud grunting sounds (which could be heard a few feet away). I ended up moving the betta. Sorry to say, i'm now using them to cycle a new tank that i'm going to put a grouper in tomorrow

 

[Flame_Angel]

The three-stripe damsels are pretty much the worst damsels you could put in a tank, next to the dominos. They're both very, very aggressive little fish; I don't even sell them at the store any more because they invariably end up coming back to me because they've pestered everything in a customer's tank to death.

The yellow-tails can be little pukes too, but they're not as bad. I've had good luck with Springers and Electric Blue damsels, not very aggressive at all.

 

[aandfsoccr04]

I'd reconsider adding all those damsels. Some of them like the three stripe end up being really aggressive. I also wouldn't add nearly that many fish at the same time and would strongly recommend you get a quarantine tank before introducing fish to your display tank so you're not posting an ich thread here in the next few weeks.