help me stock my 180 gallon soft coral reef

[jfourn]

i want 1 large tang and alot of small reef fish.....gobies blennies alot of small fish any ideas ????

 

[matt frizz]

1 Powder Blue Tang
Black Ice Ocellaris Clown pair living in a BTA
Midas Blenny (pair?)
Starry Blenny
Yasha Goby/Pistol pair
Mystery Wrasse
Labout's Fairy Wrasse
Chromis School
Blue Spotted Jawfish
Bangai Cardinal
Whipfin fairy wrasse

Just some ideas that I would look into if I had a 180.

 

[jfourn]

anyone have a school or scissor tail dartfish??? how many different gobies can i put in 180 gallon???scissor tail.... firefish smaller ones like yasha.... ywg ...diamond????/

 

[SecretiveFish]

Scissortail dartfish are just like all the other dartfish, M/F, M/F/F (maybe, not 100% sure on this), or single only. They do not school. As you probably know, good luck sexing them. We got three scissortail dartfish and well the third one was constantly picked on and finally found a gap in the lid after smashing his head into the glass lid at least a dozen times over the course of a year. That thing must have had brain damage. I suspect we ended up purchasing M/M/F as it is impossible to tell the genders unless you are the fish! The remaining pair we have had for ~18 months. Something I did not know about the scissortail dartfish is that they spent most of their time, i.e. all of the time except when they think it is dinner time, in their hidey hole.

I think in a tank your size you could get away with a firefish pair and a scissortail dartfish pair. You might be able to get away with a yasha goby and another non-sandsifting goby too (but I have not had any experience mixing gobies, I have just stuck to one per tank). Many people like the sand-sifting goby, but I have not had positive experiences with them like the diamond watchman goby. They throw sand everywhere potentially killing corals and may have trouble getting enough nutrition even in a tank your size. Also if you did not glue your aquascaping together and/or put your rock in on the bottom of the tank before you added sand, these guys will cause rock collapses. All of these things and more were my experience with sand-sifting gobies.

 

[SDguy]

In a soft coral tank, I'd really load up on the planktivores like anthias and fairy/flasher wrasses, since your corals can handle the impact on water quality.

 

[asim58]

The different wrasses would be nice, I'd throw in some type of basslet also or an orchid dottyback for some bright color.

 

[WestTexasReefer]

I have a 180. Here is my stocking list.
Magnificent Fox Face
Hippo Tang
Yellow Tang
Bellus Angel
Swallowtail Angel
Bi Color Angel
A pair of black oscellaris clowns
A pair of lined cardinal fish
Midas Blenny
1 Male and 2 female lyretail anthias
Christmas Wrasse
Solar Wrasse
Mystery Wrasse
Red Margin Wrasse
Blue Head Fairy Wrasse
Exquisite Wrasse
McCoskers Flasher Wrasse

 

[joejoe1055]

1 large and lots of small?
i would not do a yellow tang if you did alot of leathers for the simple fact it would look better with something the opposite of yellow/brown
i would say, a kole,a purple,a powder blue, or even a convist tang would be a nice color contrast
as far as little fish
a royal gramma for a splash of color
wrasses look nice and swim alot
a cardinal fish or two
i would do several of the small gobies

 

[nanoreefer1000]

For a tang I'd get a black tang if you have the funds. I like the idea of a planktivores dominant reef, some dartfish, anithias, wrasse, Genicanthus angels, etc. A Mustard Guttatus tang would be awesome too.

 

[Monkeyfish]

I have a bit of an oddball tank. My 180 started out as FOWLR and then for giggles I started throwing in corals to see what would not get eaten. Now it's a softy reef.

Current inhabitants:

Fish
Tassled filefish (Chaetodermis pencilligerus)
Orange spot filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris)
Carberryi anthias (which I would not get again - looks like a goldfish)
Squampinnis anthia
Camelback cowfish (tetrasomas gibbosus)
CBB (Chelmon rostratus)
Radiant wrasse (Halichoeres iridis)
Cherub pygmy angel (Centropyge argi)
Black Velvet Angel (Chaetodontoplus melanosoma)

I plan on adding a blackcap jawfish (Opistognathus randalli) and tri-color wrasse (Cirrhilabrus solorensis).

Corals include purple efflo (the xenia, not SPS), gsp, 5 different leathers, a couple of gorgonians and bunch of different colored mushrooms.

 

[jfourn]

okay so far i have 2 clowns 1 chromis diamong goby rainfords goby midas blenny a baby yellow tang and a tomini tang....whats a good couple of wrasses to add?