125 gallon Reef tank stocking list.

[itz frank]

Upgraded tank is going up. I'm probably about a month or so out so I'm starting a stocking list. This will be primarily SPS with mixed.

Fish that will be moved from current set up include:
2 black percs
Lawnmower blenny
Helrichi fire fish.
Red headed solon wrasse
Lubbocks wrasse
2 Cardinals

I'm toying with a few options in the same species.

3x-4x -Carberryi/Red Belted/Randall's
Lemonpeel Angel
Spotfin Butterfly/Saddleback
Scott's Wrasse
Leopard Wrasse
Pink Margin Fairy(maybe x2)
Powder Blue Tang
Scopas Tang
Yellow Eyed Kole Tang

Thank you in advance. I would like advice on my selection as well as possible order of introduction. I will be using a QT on these but my QT tank is 20 gallons. I'd like to stage this in 2-3 fish at a time. 1-1.5 months apart.

 

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Lemon peel Angels are great at eating corals that you don't want them to.

Leopard wrasses are beautiful but can be really tricky so be prepared to have them not make it.

I think a powder blue is pushing it personally. I wouldn't do one in anything less than a 300g.

 

[itz frank]

Lemon peel Angels are great at eating corals that you don't want them to.

Leopard wrasses are beautiful but can be really tricky so be prepared to have them not make it.

I think a powder blue is pushing it personally. I wouldn't do one in anything less than a 300g.

Thoughts on replacements for each? I'm open to advice. Leopard isn't a necessity. Just wanted something different since I have a flasher and fairy already.

Any additions that I might have missed on these? Thank you for your response.

 

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I would do less species of wrasse, maybe just 1 or 2, but do harems of them like 3-5. You get some very cool interactions when you get a harem of 1 male and multiple females.

 

[WaReefer458]

Upgraded tank is going up. I'm probably about a month or so out so I'm starting a stocking list. This will be primarily SPS with mixed.

Fish that will be moved from current set up include:
2 black percs
Lawnmower blenny
Helrichi fire fish.
Red headed solon wrasse
Lubbocks wrasse
2 Cardinals

I'm toying with a few options in the same species.

3x-4x -Carberryi/Red Belted/Randall's
Lemonpeel Angel
Spotfin Butterfly/Saddleback
Scott's Wrasse
Leopard Wrasse
Pink Margin Fairy(maybe x2)
Powder Blue Tang
Scopas Tang
Yellow Eyed Kole Tang

Thank you in advance. I would like advice on my selection as well as possible order of introduction. I will be using a QT on these but my QT tank is 20 gallons. I'd like to stage this in 2-3 fish at a time. 1-1.5 months apart.

I'm a wrasse guy myself, I'll agree that the lemon peel will be a roll of the dice. Pick one tang and stick with that but id just do a bristletooth. I have a bad history with kole tangs getting aggressive so I'd personally say go with a tomini and possible a yellow if it blows your skirt up. Look into some fairy wrasses. I have a solon, long fin and a mccoskers in my 40. I wasnt all that impressed with them at my LFS but after being talked into buying one I really grew to enjoy them. They are great community fish and provide a lot of movement to the tank. Also just from a personal standpoint, in that size tank I would do a bristletooth tang with a lawnmower blenny. I currently have 4 turbo snails in my 40 that have decimated my algae and my lawnmower blenny is slowly starving to death. I am currently just trying to figure out which is going. I like the blenny but the snails are doing a killer job of eating all my algae.

 

[itz frank]

I would do less species of wrasse, maybe just 1 or 2, but do harems of them like 3-5. You get some very cool interactions when you get a harem of 1 male and multiple females.

Hmm.. that an interesting idea. I think I'll figure that in. I currently have two species. So that would limit me to only additional of what I have.

I'm a wrasse guy myself, I'll agree that the lemon peel will be a roll of the dice. Pick one tang and stick with that but id just do a bristletooth. I have a bad history with kole tangs getting aggressive so I'd personally say go with a tomini and possible a yellow if it blows your skirt up. Look into some fairy wrasses. I have a solon, long fin and a mccoskers in my 40. I wasnt all that impressed with them at my LFS but after being talked into buying one I really grew to enjoy them. They are great community fish and provide a lot of movement to the tank. Also just from a personal standpoint, in that size tank I would do a bristletooth tang with a lawnmower blenny. I currently have 4 turbo snails in my 40 that have decimated my algae and my lawnmower blenny is slowly starving to death. I am currently just trying to figure out which is going. I like the blenny but the snails are doing a killer job of eating all my algae.

Algae is a problem in my 60. So I haven't experienced that problem.

 

[username in use]

My only beef with your current wrasses and the ones on your list is they are all a little large and aggressive for having multiples in your tank.

Yellow Coris or any of the flashers could be kept in Harems in your tank no problem. Other than that, if you are set on the fairy wrasses, then I would probably only keep individuals of each species.