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[csammis]

I'd like to get your take on this plan, please. Tank is a 93g cube (30"x30"x24") with 20g sump, skimmer, LPS and SPS corals.

Current Stocking

1x Pajama Cardinalfish
1x Purple Firefish
1x Whipfin Wrasse

Potential Tankmates
1x Rainford goby (Koumansetta rainfordi)
1x Gold Line goby (Elacatinus horsti)
1x Assessor basslet - Randall's (Assessor randalli) or Macneill's (Assessor macneilli), would one or the other work better with the rest of the plan?
1x Canary blenny (Meiacanthus oualanensis) or Green Canary blenny (Meiacanthus tongaensis)

Thanks in advance!

 

[snorvich]

You were a great help this past winter snorvich when I was setting up my first reef tank. I recently lost most of my fish due to a non-quarantined urchin, so I am in the process of restocking.

Tank is a 40g breeder with a 20g sump. Looks like a pretty healthy pod population now, planning to add a chaeto section with light to my sump.

1 Randall's prawn goby - Amblyeleotris randalli (sole survivor of velvet outbreak, in QT now)
1 ruby red dragonet - Synchiropus sp. very difficult in this sized tank due to insufficient copepods
1 royal gramma - Gramma loreto
1 starry blenny - Salarias ramosus
1 purple firefish - Nemateleotris decora
2 ocellaris clowns - Amphiprion ocellaris

Thanks!

Fine except as annotated

 

[snorvich]

I'd like to get your take on this plan, please. Tank is a 93g cube (30"x30"x24") with 20g sump, skimmer, LPS and SPS corals.

Current Stocking

1x Pajama Cardinalfish
1x Purple Firefish
1x Whipfin Wrasse one of the more aggressive fairy wrasses; may be a problem with some tank mates

Potential Tankmates
1x Rainford goby (Koumansetta rainfordi)
1x Gold Line goby (Elacatinus horsti)
1x Assessor basslet - Randall's (Assessor randalli) or Macneill's (Assessor macneilli), would one or the other work better with the rest of the plan? both are similar in behavior and ecological niche
1x Canary blenny (Meiacanthus oualanensis) or Green Canary blenny (Meiacanthus tongaensis)

Thanks in advance!

Mild concern with the whipfin fairy wrasse otherwise fine

 

[Gagonzalez]

Currently have a 28g Nano with the following:
1- Longnose Hawk
1- Royal Gramma
1- Ocellaris Clown

Was upgrading to a 100g Cadd Lights Artisan tank and would like to add the following:
1-Purple Tang
1- One Spot Foxface
3-Disbar Anthias
1 more Ocellaris Clown
1-Flame Angel
1-Orange Back Fairy Wrasse
1-Mandarin (will be last, about 1 yr in after established)

Would this be possible? And in what order would be best to add them?

Thanks

 

[snorvich]

Currently have a 28g Nano with the following:
1- Longnose Hawk
1- Royal Gramma
1- Ocellaris Clown

Was upgrading to a 100g Cadd Lights Artisan tank and would like to add the following:
1-Purple Tang
1- One Spot Foxface
3-Disbar Anthias
1 more Ocellaris Clown
1-Flame Angel
1-Orange Back Fairy Wrasse
1-Mandarin (will be last, about 1 yr in after established)

Would this be possible? And in what order would be best to add them?

Thanks

I would not add two large algae grazers in a 100 gallon tank. In any case algae grazers (including the flame angel) should be after 6 months maturity, and ideally the last fish added. Otherwise, fine.

 

[Gagonzalez]

So would the following be a better alternative in the following order:

Move the following over from the 28g Nano:
1-Longnose Hawk
1-Royal Gramma
1-Ocellaris Clown

Add the following:
1-Ocellaris Clown
1-Orange Back Fairy Wrasse
3-Disbar Anthias
1-Blue Dot Jawfish (added)

6 months+ add:
1-Mandarin
1-Flame Angel
1-Purple Tang

 

[snorvich]

So would the following be a better alternative in the following order:

Move the following over from the 28g Nano:
1-Longnose Hawk
1-Royal Gramma
1-Ocellaris Clown

Add the following:
1-Ocellaris Clown
1-Orange Back Fairy Wrasse
3-Disbar Anthias
1-Blue Dot Jawfish (added)

6 months+ add:
1-Mandarin
1-Flame Angel
1-Purple Tang

The new plan is fine. However Blue Spot Jawfish require cooler temperatures and do not do well in our aquaria. Mortality is high.

 

[Gagonzalez]

What if I substituted him for a Blenny of some sort like a Starry eyed or Horned Blenny? Thank You.

 

[snorvich]

What if I substituted him for a Blenny of some sort like a Starry eyed or Horned Blenny? Thank You.

substituting a blenny for the BSJ would be fine.

 

[Pigpen17]

Hello. Simple one here.

56G. (30x24x18)
Current Stock:
Midas Blenny
Skunk Shrimp
Serpent Star
Porcelain Crab

I'm thinking my next addition will be a Goby. Lookng at the Black Barred Convict Goby or Court Jester Goby. Maybe a Hector's Goby. I read the above replies about algea grazers, and that makes sense. What about captive bread Jesters?

 

[snorvich]

Hello. Simple one here.

56G. (30x24x18)
Current Stock:
Midas Blenny
Skunk Shrimp
Serpent Star
Porcelain Crab

I'm thinking my next addition will be a Goby. Lookng at the Black Barred Convict Goby or Court Jester Goby. Maybe a Hector's Goby. I read the above replies about algea grazers, and that makes sense. What about captive bread Jesters?

Captive bred fish do not have genetic differences from wild caught. As such feeding will be similar or identical. What does happen with captive bred fish is an overall weakening of the gene pool. A goby addition should be fine.

 

[Pigpen17]

Captive bred fish do not have genetic differences from wild caught. As such feeding will be similar or identical. What does happen with captive bred fish is an overall weakening of the gene pool. A goby addition should be fine.

Ah. Good to know. Thank you.

So maybe I can drop a quick list on you.

56G. (30x24x18)
Current Stock:
Midas Blenny
Skunk Shrimp
Serpent Star
Porcelain Crab

Additions:
Court Jester Goby (wild)
Black Barred Convict Goby
Fowleria Cardinalfish X2

 

[snorvich]

Ah. Good to know. Thank you.

So maybe I can drop a quick list on you.

56G. (30x24x18)
Current Stock:
Midas Blenny
Skunk Shrimp
Serpent Star
Porcelain Crab

Additions:
Court Jester Goby (wild)
Black Barred Convict Goby
Fowleria Cardinalfish X2

Should be fine

 

[RG Rude]

I have a 30 gallon mixed reef with a fair amount of rock, lots of flow (Vortech MP40 set on the low side) and 2' sand bed, kessil 150w and an Aquamaxx HOB skimmer. I do a 5 gal. water change weekly and don't dose.

Current stock
several acans, mushrooms, GSP and rics
8 red banded trochus
1 lg. emerald crab
1 peppermint shrimp
2 orange skunk clowns
2 RBTA (baseball sizes for a year now and hosted by the clowns)
1 cryptic wrasse

Can I add a Orchid Dottyback (Pseudochromis fridmani) as my last fish?

If I can't find a suitable Orchid Dottyback would a Gold Assessor Basslet (Assessor flavissimus) work? My tank has no cover on it if that makes a difference.

 

[snorvich]

If I can't find a suitable Orchid Dottyback would a Gold Assessor Basslet (Fowleria Cardinalfish) work? My tank has no cover on it if that makes a difference.

Either P. fridmani or Fowleria Cardinalfish would work. A gold assessor basslet would work instead of either of the two above.

 

[sensei]

Please let me know what you think in the following:
I have a 1 year old 150 gal DT, 30 gal sump, 120 pounds of live rock and sand with lps , soft corals and anemones
I have the following fish:
1 unicorn tang
1 yellow tang
a pair of clowns
1 melanaurus
2 purple firefish
1 fox face
1 dragonet
1 fridmany pseudochromis
3 dispar antias, and
1 orange spot diamond goby

I am planning on adding:
1 Kauderns Cardinalfish,
4 Engineer Goby
1 Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse
1 Linespot Flasher Wrasse,
3 Blue Reef Chromis

Thanks

 

[snorvich]

Please let me know what you think in the following:
I have a 1 year old 150 gal DT, 30 gal sump, 120 pounds of live rock and sand with lps , soft corals and anemones
I have the following fish:
1 unicorn tang needs a much larger tank
1 yellow tang will make additions difficult
a pair of clowns depends on species
1 melanaurus
2 purple firefish only one will survive long term are prolific jumpers
1 fox face
1 dragonet
1 fridmany pseudochromis
3 dispar antias, and
1 orange spot diamond goby

I am planning on adding:
1 Kauderns Cardinalfish,
4 Engineer Goby will make a mess of your tank with rearranging
1 Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse prolific jumper
1 Linespot Flasher Wrasse, prolific jumper
3 Blue Reef Chromis highly susceptible to uronema so you had best have a rigorous quarantine protocol

Thanks

 

[wcharon]

I have an established 125 reeef with the following fishes:
1. Blue Tang (Medium)
2. Foxface (Medium)
3. Powder Blue (Medium)
4. Tomini Tang (Large)
5. Oscelaris Clown
6. Filefish
7. Anthia
8. Diamond Goby
9. Red Hawkfish
10. Tailspot Blenny

I know that i am at the full size with the Tangs but they really don't even look at the hair algae so i will like to know if i can add another Tailspot Blenny to fight a little with the hairy algae. I know this is not the scope of this thread but is their any trick to make these Tangs to eat algae?

Thanks once again for the support.

 

[snorvich]

I have an established 125 reeef with the following fishes:
1. Blue Tang (Medium)
2. Foxface (Medium)
3. Powder Blue (Medium)
4. Tomini Tang (Large)
5. Oscelaris Clown
6. Filefish
7. Anthia
8. Diamond Goby
9. Red Hawkfish
10. Tailspot Blenny

I know that i am at the full size with the Tangs but they really don't even look at the hair algae so i will like to know if i can add another Tailspot Blenny to fight a little with the hairy algae. I know this is not the scope of this thread but is their any trick to make these Tangs to eat algae?

Thanks once again for the support.

Inefficient eaters (4 in this tank) often result in nutrient rich tanks which cause hair algae. There is no fish (which is all this thread is about) that will clean up hair algae.

 

[sensei]

Thanks Steve,
after reading your advice
I have changed my selection to the following:
1 Kauderns Cardinalfish,
1 Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse
1 Linespot Flasher Wrasse
1 Red Head Solon Fairy Wrasse
3 Resplendent Anthias

please let me know what you think