Help me with my stock list

[juniorrocketdad]

Please give me advice and ideas on what to add to my 70 gallon mixed reef.
Current inhabitants:
Pair of black ice clowns
Bicolor blenny
Whitecap goby with shrimp
Longnose hawkfish
Blue star leopard wrasse
Cuc includes snails two peppermint shrimp a fighting conch and one red leg hermit crab

The following fish are what I'm considering adding to the tank:
1. Copper banded butterfly fish (I realize some sites say they need a larger tank but I believe if I get a small one it will be fine for a long time since they are slow growers and they do not swim nearly as actively as something like a tang)

2 potters/ chaoti leopard wrasse (not sure if it's a good idea to press my luck considering my blue star is doing so well, I'd love to have one or both, let me know what you think)

3. Mandarin/ruby red dragonet ( again i would love to have both but I think having either is unlikely due to the leopard)

4. Royal gramma (not high on my list but may be a good addition)

5. Banghaii cardinal (again not very high on my list but a pair would be cool)

6. Anthias of some kind (maybe bartletts? I dot have experience with anthias so feedback here would be very appreciated)

That's all I'm considering right now, if I think of anything else I will post about it here. Just restating that I know having all these fish is an impossibility and don't intend trying to have all of them.


Thanks for your feed back

 

[juniorrocketdad]

No one has feedback?

 

[farfromsea]

My thoughts:

1 wouldn't get the butterfly fish due to tank size

2 per my understanding mixing leopard wrasse *females* can be successful when mixing species

3 you're right no mandarin because of the leopard. Tank is too small to have enough pods for both

4 royal gramma: fine choice except IMO similar in "style" to the bicolor Blenny although this is just personal preference

5 banggais would be fine. Nocturnal. Check the vent method and get a MF pair. No more than 2 fish

6 I think anthias need more like 125 gallons to swim happily.

Conclusion: get perhaps 1-2 more fish from the above because you're pretty full!


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[juniorrocketdad]

My thoughts:

1 wouldn't get the butterfly fish due to tank size

2 per my understanding mixing leopard wrasse *females* can be successful when mixing species

3 you're right no mandarin because of the leopard. Tank is too small to have enough pods for both

4 royal gramma: fine choice except IMO similar in "style" to the bicolor Blenny although this is just personal preference

5 banggais would be fine. Nocturnal. Check the vent method and get a MF pair. No more than 2 fish

6 I think anthias need more like 125 gallons to swim happily.

Conclusion: get perhaps 1-2 more fish from the above because you're pretty full!


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Thank you for your feedback, the butterfly might not be a good idea, i think if I get it small it would work for years before it was a problem but I realize many people believe to not buy a fish that can't live in your tank fully grown,

What I have read about the anthias is that different species have different requirements and many of them would be fine in a tank of this size, im looking for recommended species

 

[farfromsea]

Can't help you with specific anthia recommendations but someone will surely!


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[fishguy2501]

For your list, i would not do a butterfly or mandarin, even a royal gramma IMO. As for anthias, there are some smaller species that should do ok in your tank IMO. I would go with some gobies and wrasses. More nano type fish.

 

[juniorrocketdad]

For your list, i would not do a butterfly or mandarin, even a royal gramma IMO. As for anthias, there are some smaller species that should do ok in your tank IMO. I would go with some gobies and wrasses. More nano type fish.

Please explain why you wouldn't recommend the butterfly and gramma

 

[marleesan]

The butterfly will get too big for the tank, but I don't see an issue with the royalgramma

 

[juniorrocketdad]

The butterfly will get too big for the tank, but I don't see an issue with the royalgramma

Alright I'll ditch the butterfly and the mandarin however I can't think of a reason why the gramma wouldn't work in a 70 gallon tank

 

[fishguy2501]

The butterfly would get too big, and with a royal gramma i have had bad experience with them being aggressive