New 125g stocking order

[RussellHill]

Hello all,
My new 125g tank is fully cycled and I am adding ammonia every couple of days to feed the bacteria. I have a 20g long I will be setting up this weekend for a quarantine tank. I have a Bio-wheel in the sump so it is being seeded with bacteria. I plan to quarantine for 6 weeks.
I plan to add
2 Ocellaris Clown fish and a small Hippo tank to the QT first.
I will then add the following:
3 green barred Dart fish
Yellow tang
Peppermint hogfish
Orchid dottyback
Small blue jaw trigger- maybe.

Any thoughts, I figured that my tank will easily handle the bio load of the clowns and hippo being put in together- I have 175lbs of Fiji live rock.

 

[jchassie6312]

the bio load will be fine with that much rock + the big tank size

 

[jminick2]

sigh.... just add ammonia once and let the tank do its thing your cycle is going to take forever if you keep adding ammonia it DOES NOT need to be fed. you can actually add too much. just dose it one time and leave it alone. the only thing that can be beneficial is putting a small pinch of food in once a week, and that is not to feed the bacteria! that is because it creates phosphates that are need to convert ammonia and nitrites.

hippo needs a bigger tank everything is fine.

 

[RussellHill]

If after my cycle I do not add a small amount of ammonia or fish food wouldn't the bacteria begin to die off? I am not trying to create another cycle but do not want the bacteria to die off while I have my first fishes are in 6 week quarantine .

Thanks for the help

 

[scooter31707]

IMO, I would add the hippo and yellow tangs last, since they are the most aggressive out of your list. Sometimes once Tangs gets established, it's hard to introduce other fish.

 

[Duke4life]

Wouldn't he also want to add the darts 1st so they can feel at home before some of the more territorial are added?

 

[jminick2]

If after my cycle I do not add a small amount of ammonia or fish food wouldn't the bacteria begin to die off? I am not trying to create another cycle but do not want the bacteria to die off while I have my first fishes are in 6 week quarantine .

Thanks for the help

studies show it takes around a year for bacteria to die off....if you are worried adding a pinch of food every few days will be more than enough to keep them happy during QT. once your are cycled it is hard to cause a recycle you have to add a boat load of ammonia so I wouldn't worry about that.

 

[KingTriton1]

I think the hippo tang is a little oversized for that size of tank imo.