Confused on stocking

[ahud]

Wow! Thank you so much moon. I am glad you went into such detail.

About the jawfish and the goby, my tank is 36x18x24, so would the species not have plenty of room? Once the goby pairs off with the pistol shrimp I thought they would stick close to the burrow.

I also want to keep a couple of soft corals like Zoas and frogspawn. Do you see any problems with my stocking there?

Wrasses are not one of my favorite fish so I could do without him.

I am looking for an "oddBall" fish like the curious worm. Since you said they do not adjust well, do you have any recommendations to replace him?

Finally do you see any problems with the number of fish? I will be doing weekly water changes. I have been keeping Tanganyika Cichlids for a year and "water change sunday" has become a habit.

Thanks and thanks again for your help.

 

[travis32]

Another overlooked hardy *larger sized* fish that is reef safe and would do fine in a 65g is the marine betta. However, if you want shrimp, the betta is a hardy fish but it's primary food source is frozen or live shrimp.. It may eat them..

My stocking list on my 55g so far is:
1 Marine betta
1 Royal grama
1 Lawnmower blenny
(tank is 3 months old now, waiting about a month before next purchase).

Future stocking list
2 Ocilarious (sp?) or percula clowns
POSSILBY (Undecided on this) A flame angel or Coral beauty (after the tank is 6 months old or more.)
A larger Goby or a Midas Blenny.
If I had some good netting on my tank to keep fish in I'd consider a pair of purple firefish also.

I also want to significantly expand my coral populations. There's a great Large Flower leather coral that I'd love to have. It's $80.00 at the pet store, and it must be about 6" to 8" in diameter. It'd be a perfect center piece.

Then some other miscellenous soft and LPS corals.

 

[jedheuer]

About the jawfish and the goby, my tank is 36x18x24, so would the species not have plenty of room? Once the goby pairs off with the pistol shrimp I thought they would stick close to the burrow.

I think you would probably be alright as long as you offer many hiding places for both to burrow. My jawfish and YWG hangout within the same square foot as each other most the time and they dont fight.

 

[hdean]

great detail that helped me alot as well thanks!