Another stock list, please bear with me =)

El Langostino

New member
90 gallon with well over 100 gallons total water volume due to large sump.


Fish:

(3) Blue Green Chromis Damsels
(2) False Percula Clownfish
Green Clown Goby
Green Mandarin
chalk basslet
Solar Wrasse
(2) Banggai or Spotted Cardinals


As for the larger centerpiece fish one of the following, I can't decide which to add:

Fuzzy Dwarf Lion
Yellow Tang
Foxface Rabbitfish

Please feel free to suggest which one I should get or perhaps another centerpiece you think would be better suited to this particular tank.






Coral/anemone: just 3-5 nothing extravaggant or hard to keep

Bubble Tip Anemone - Entacmaea quadricolor
or
Pacific carpet or Long Tentacle Anemone - Macrodactyla doreensis

Green Brain Maze or Brain Worm Coral - Platygyra Coral
Open or folden Brain coral - Trachyphyllia geoffroyi
Polyps red, green - Zoanthus sp.

Blue Striped Mushroom - Actinodiscus sp.
or
Bullseye Mushroom - Rhodactis inchoata

Derasa or Squamosa clam





Shrimp:


(2) Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)


Crabs:


(2) Emerald Crab or porcelain crabs
(2) Pom Pom Crab


Hermit Crabs:


(10) Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crab, mexican blue leg (Clibanarius tricolor)
(10) Red Leg Hermit Crabs, scarlet hermit (Paguristes cadenati)
(10) dwarf red tip hermit, mexican red leg (Clibanarius sp.)
(1) Electric Blue Hermit Crab


Snails:


(10) Mexican Turbo Snail (Turbo fluctuosa)
(10) Astrea turbo snail (Astraea tecta)
(10) Nassarius Snail
(10) Margarita snail (Margarites pupillus)


maybe also a florida fighting conch or sea star of some sort.



what do you think of this? Just a potential stocking guide and clean up crew.
 
Go with a pair not three chromis; the dwarf lion will eat the majority of fish and motile inverts on your list.

I'd choose the Foxface.

Ed
 
Hermit crabs are predatory, so I avoid them now. Otherwise, best to keep in mind that you'll be losing snails regularly. The emerald and pom-pom crabs are also predatory, with the emeralds capable of catch fish when they mature. Some people have problems; some don't.

The Mexican and Margarita snails are from temperate waters and don't necessarily do well at reef temperatures.

The bubble-tip anemones are the easiest to keep, but I wouldn't put one into a new tank. I'd wait at least 6-12 months.

I guess I'd keep a lower fish-anemone load for a while and see how water quality shaped up. That's potentially a lot of animals for that size tank. You didn't mention a refugium.
 
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