180g stocking list, any opinions?

xtrstangx

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Looking at fish to add to my 180g SPS/clam/zoo/LPS tank so reef-safe is a requirement. I have an ASM G-4X that is a little overkill for my tank, but not by a whole lot. These are what I was thinking as of right now:

2 Ocellaris Clownfish
Sixline Wrasse
Yellow Watchman Goby
Flame Angelfish (already have him in the 40g, he may leave us..)
Orchid Dottyback
3/5 Blue-Green Reef Chromis
Psychadelic Mandarin (maybe 2?)
Magnificent Rabbitfish
Achilles Tang (anyone have problems with these and LPS?)
Powder Blue Tang

Also interested in these fish, but not sure if they'd fit into the tank because the angels are large and the blenny may nip clams?
Lamarck's Angelfish or Watanabe's Angelfish (a pair)
Midas Blenny (any problems with clams with these?)

I'm open to suggestions or comments.
 
Also should add I was interested in a group of anthias but I can only feed twice, maybe 3 times a day. Would that be a problem? If not, can someone recommend what species (they all look the same to me)
 
I think as far as bioload you are OK but I wouldn't have a sixline with the mandarin's and YWG. Sixlines can become terrors to smaller passive fish. I haven't heard of midas blennies nipping corals or clams, I think they are one of the safer members of their genus. I would also choose either the achilles or the PB tang but would not have both. Probably the best anthias for a 180 are the bartletts but the lyretails are good too, the lyretails get bigger and are more aggressive than the barts but both species are very hardy fish.

If this was my tank I would lose the sixline, the achilles, the blue green chromis (I've never had any luck keeping more than a pair), and I would get the midas blenny and a pair of Genicanthus angels (I love the Watanabi's). The rest of your selections sound great. Anthias are great fish as well but a small school will add a considerable amout to the bioload.
 
Thanks Kahuna Tuna. I know some of the other blennies can be problems, but I haven't heard of the Midas Blenny doing any damage. I have the Sixline and the YWG already and they are fine... if anything, the YWG will show the Sixline whose boss if the wrasse goes into his cave. That may change later on though.

Anyone else have an opinion?
 
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