Help picking some more peaceful fish for my nano

[race58]

I have a 28 Gal Nano Cube that is well established (3yrs)
Parameters are good and I make regular water changes and any needed dosing.
Corals are now growing fast and looking good since I replaced my CF lights with a LED kit from RapidLed.
Kit is 20 3w Cree leds (10 Cool White,6 Royal Blue, & 4 Ultraviolet)
I have a Clown fish,Firefish, Blue/Green Chromis and they are doing great now. I used to have a Coral Beauty angel and a Adorned Wrasse that got too big for my tank. I also had two damsels that were very aggressive.
Since they are gone the firefish is out most of the time now.
I would like to add some small peaceful fish.
I was looking at adding a Green Mandarin Dragonet,a Green Banded Goby and a Clown Goby. I would like to add one other like a small Lawnmower Blenny or a scooter Blenny or something that folks here would recommend.

Thanks for any and all input

 

[Cryophilous]

It sounds like you are trying to add way to much. I would ideally keep 3 fish in a 28, and 4 would be the max. Also, and mandarin would almost definitely starve to death in your tank- especially with other fish in there that eat pods.

Out of the fish you listed, I think a lawnmower blenny or a clown goby would work best. A goby/pistol pair would probably also be ok if you're into that.

 

[OodleyBoodely]

Lawnmowers can get pretty territorial is such small tanks, I would go with one of the ecsenius sp. blennies such as the tail-spot blenny. They stay smaller and are peaceful. Scooter blennies are dragonets just like the mandarine and really need bigger foraging area with less competition for pods...if you want it to thrive. The green banded and clown gobies would work in that tank. You might check out the assessors and rainfords/court jester goby also as both are very peaceful, colorful, and interesting fish.

 

[India]

I would definitely skip the lawnmower - they get big, territorial and mean...too big for the tank. Green striped gobies are a great choice and will scoot around the bottom. The clown goby will live in a coral...and I agree with passing on the mandarin and scooter.

 

[searle832003]

I agree I think you are trying to add too much, less is better. I would try to go no more than 6 inches of fish for that tank. I currently have a 29 biocube thats been running for 2 1/2 years with panoram pro leds and its amazing the things going on in there. I have two clowns, peppermint shrimp, emerald crab, turbo snails, astrea snails, blue leg hermit crabs, big nassurus snail, two sps, torch coral, green star polyp, candy cane coral, lobo, star fish that i didnt purchase and hundreds of snails that just came from no where. Its a thriving little eco system.

I think you should keep what you got, madrins require alot of work and pods or they will starve. Most likely you'll have to supplement pods every week and that can get pricy. I thought I saw you had bumble bee snails in there, i would get rid of those guys. They will hunt down fish and inverts, I've never liked those guys.

Less is more I feel, just watch that little tank explode with life. If you want to add more maybe go with some inverts, or do what I did build a 90 gallon to go with your 28.

 

[rachenbrazil]

Assessors or a fridmani pseudocromis would nice choices

 

[sponger0]

No dragonettes....that includes mandarins or scooters.

4 fish max. And thats with proper filtration

As they mature behaviors will change. You want more than 4 fish, get a bigger tank or you are asking for problems in the long run.