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[jojomclovin]

Hello everbody, I am new to the hobby and was wondering if the following are possible to be kept in a reef tank. Will be setting up a 125 gallon with 3 canister filters/protein skimmer/3 power heads/double bulb T5 coralife light/and a fluval digital readout heater

Fish

Clowns
Butterfly raccoon
Humu humu trigger
Coral beauty angel
Flame angel
Yellow tang
sand sifting blenny

Skunk cleaner shrimp

Green star polyps
zooanthiads
xenia

I have researched the fish a bit and like the look of them. I have a friend who is breaking down their tank and is willing to give me the cleaner shrimp and corals along with live rock. I know most of the fish should not be a problem, but was wondering if anyone had experience with a raccoon butterfly along with corals?

 

[skibum9884]

Sounds decent, but I would eliminate the trigger and butterfly. The trigger is likely to take out the clowns, the sand sifting blenny, and will for sure eat the cleaner shrimp. It may not immediately, but it will as it grows. Also, the butterfly is very likely going to eat all of the zoos and xenia.

Also a few other suggestions: I would recommend using a sump as opposed to canister filters. It will make it much easier and increase your total water volume (the solution to pollution is dilution). If you look at some threads on here they'll show how to build your own for low cost, or what to buy at a low cost. Lastly, I'm a bit concerned about the light. It may not be enough power to support those corals. Someone else will have to comment on this as I don't have much experience with GSP, Zoos, or Xenia in some time.

 

[skibum9884]

Oh, and welcome to RC!!!

 

[yahutch]

I have a raccoon in a fish only tank. I bought it to clean rocks of pests for my reef , He does a very good job at it . I would not trust it with any corals I planned to keep , mine even cleared a 40-50 lbs rock that was covered in hairy mushrooms in 2 days ( my other coral munchers ignore the mushrooms ).

 

[snorvich]

Yes, a raccoon will eat anything attached to the rock. Quickly. But they are hardy and otherwise great fish.

 

[jojomclovin]

Thanks for all the input fellas