20 Gallon Tank Stocking
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themoraykeeper
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Hey there 
If it was me, I would have a small goby/pistol shrimp pair and maybe 2 fire fish. A small type of wrasse like this one here
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+3043&pcatid=3043
Not much room for anything else really. If it was 30 gal+ I definately would have recomended a perc or occ clownfish pair, but the fish I said above should make a good little display
Good luck with what ever you choose!
If it was me, I would have a small goby/pistol shrimp pair and maybe 2 fire fish. A small type of wrasse like this one here
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+3043&pcatid=3043
Not much room for anything else really. If it was 30 gal+ I definately would have recomended a perc or occ clownfish pair, but the fish I said above should make a good little display
Good luck with what ever you choose!
ClippersTown
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You can definitely keep a pair of occelaris clowns in there, along with one more smallish fish, maybe a firefish.
MikeandNicole
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I would not hold on to the arrow crab, but that is my opinion only.
I kept a 20g for more than 10 years. My stock list varied over time; in the 1990s, it was a maroon clown, two damsels, a camelback shrimp, 2 hermits, 2 snails, and a long nose butterfly (no I would never do that now, but I was a teenager and I did not know better).
In the early 2000s, it was a pair of false perc clowns, a damsel, a cleaner goby, 2 fire shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, and 2 cleaner shrimp with a sebae anem and two serpent stars.
In the late 2000s (2008-2011) once I was out of school and no longer quite as poor, it was 2 false perc clowns, a longnose hawk, ORA cleaner gobies (2), fire shrimp and cleaner shrimp, blue leg and scarlet reef hermits, and a serpent star. Only in the last incarnation of the tank did I keep any corals, in the last one I kept acros, montis, LPS, zoas and softies. In its last incarnation, I ran t5 lighting and a HOB skimmer.
I have since broken it down (we now have the 205g display and a 12g nano); in the 12g, we currently keep a candy basslet, a magnificent goby & tiger pistol shrimp, a pompom crab, a cleaner goby, a green banded goby, and some LPS coral.
I kept a 20g for more than 10 years. My stock list varied over time; in the 1990s, it was a maroon clown, two damsels, a camelback shrimp, 2 hermits, 2 snails, and a long nose butterfly (no I would never do that now, but I was a teenager and I did not know better).
In the early 2000s, it was a pair of false perc clowns, a damsel, a cleaner goby, 2 fire shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, and 2 cleaner shrimp with a sebae anem and two serpent stars.
In the late 2000s (2008-2011) once I was out of school and no longer quite as poor, it was 2 false perc clowns, a longnose hawk, ORA cleaner gobies (2), fire shrimp and cleaner shrimp, blue leg and scarlet reef hermits, and a serpent star. Only in the last incarnation of the tank did I keep any corals, in the last one I kept acros, montis, LPS, zoas and softies. In its last incarnation, I ran t5 lighting and a HOB skimmer.
I have since broken it down (we now have the 205g display and a 12g nano); in the 12g, we currently keep a candy basslet, a magnificent goby & tiger pistol shrimp, a pompom crab, a cleaner goby, a green banded goby, and some LPS coral.
