should be fine. Behavior trumps bioload considerations, however, and the list as annotated should be fine.
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should be fine. Behavior trumps bioload considerations, however, and the list as annotated should be fine.
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I'm starting up a mainly softy and LPS 75 gallon tank with a 30 gallon sump with a protein skimmer
I'm looking to have
basic CUC, with maybe a a few peppermint or cleaner shrimp
3 bartlett anthias (male is from a previous tank, i would like to add on 2 female/juveniles)
pair of perculas (from a previous tank)
starry blenny (from a previous tank)
mandarin
fairy or flasher wrasse (I don't know what a good choice would be yet, but I will have a cover for the top of the tank)
I'm just not sure if the anthias and the wrasse would be compatible in a tank this size.
Thank you in advance
I'm looking to have
basic CUC, with maybe a a few peppermint or cleaner shrimp
3 bartlett anthias (male is from a previous tank, i would like to add on 2 female/juveniles)
pair of perculas (from a previous tank)
starry blenny (from a previous tank)
mandarin
fairy or flasher wrasse (I don't know what a good choice would be yet, but I will have a cover for the top of the tank)
I'm just not sure if the anthias and the wrasse would be compatible in a tank this size.
Thank you in advance
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Here we go, just upgraded to a 300 gallon:
300 gallon (mixed reef, mainly LPS)
96"x30"x24"
70 gallon sump
135 gallon frag tank
Current Inverts:
5 - Cleaner shrimp
Multiple RBTA
Current Fish:
1 firefish (will stay in frag tank)
1 royal Gramma
1 Midas Blenny
1 Starry Blenny
3- PJ Cardinals
1 Blue Spotted Goby
1 Melanurus Wrasse
1 Flame Angel
3-Osc Clowns (2 will stay in frag tank)
1- Green Mandarin (will stay in frag tank)
300 gallon future list for your review:
Blueface Angelfish
Emperor Angelfish
Blonde Naso Tang
Blue Tang
8" future Tang (haven't decided on which like chevron, PBT, etc) (Can do without)
8" future Tang (haven't decided on which like chevron, PBT, etc) (Can do without)
Blue Throat Trigger
Canthigaster Puffer
Foxface
Flame Hawkfish (this one can go if I'm stocked too heavy)
Blotched Anthia
5- Lyetail Anthias
4 - Clownfish (2 different pairs probably percs)
Royal Gramma (can be moved to frag tank)
Midas Blenny
Starry Blenny
3 - PJ cardinals
Blue Spotted Goby
Melanurus Wrasse
Flame Angel
New Reef Safe Wrasse (TBD, can do without)
Lyretail Wrasse (can do without this one)
Skeletor or Golden Dwarf Moray Eel (would really like this one so can do without some of the fish on this list and/or move them to the frag tank)
RBTA
Carpet Anemone (Can be move to frag tank if needed)
I come up with about 200" of fish if everything gets to maximum size. I'm afraid I'm probably overstocking so definitely need your help and insight. Also worried if I will be fighting bioload too much for the corals. Also if I do this list am I fully stocked or do I have room for 1 or 2 small fish in the future. I plan on stocking very slow so my 600lbs of LR, skimmer and ATS can keep up.
300 gallon (mixed reef, mainly LPS)
96"x30"x24"
70 gallon sump
135 gallon frag tank
Current Inverts:
5 - Cleaner shrimp
Multiple RBTA
Current Fish:
1 firefish (will stay in frag tank)
1 royal Gramma
1 Midas Blenny
1 Starry Blenny
3- PJ Cardinals
1 Blue Spotted Goby
1 Melanurus Wrasse
1 Flame Angel
3-Osc Clowns (2 will stay in frag tank)
1- Green Mandarin (will stay in frag tank)
300 gallon future list for your review:
Blueface Angelfish
Emperor Angelfish
Blonde Naso Tang
Blue Tang
8" future Tang (haven't decided on which like chevron, PBT, etc) (Can do without)
8" future Tang (haven't decided on which like chevron, PBT, etc) (Can do without)
Blue Throat Trigger
Canthigaster Puffer
Foxface
Flame Hawkfish (this one can go if I'm stocked too heavy)
Blotched Anthia
5- Lyetail Anthias
4 - Clownfish (2 different pairs probably percs)
Royal Gramma (can be moved to frag tank)
Midas Blenny
Starry Blenny
3 - PJ cardinals
Blue Spotted Goby
Melanurus Wrasse
Flame Angel
New Reef Safe Wrasse (TBD, can do without)
Lyretail Wrasse (can do without this one)
Skeletor or Golden Dwarf Moray Eel (would really like this one so can do without some of the fish on this list and/or move them to the frag tank)
RBTA
Carpet Anemone (Can be move to frag tank if needed)
I come up with about 200" of fish if everything gets to maximum size. I'm afraid I'm probably overstocking so definitely need your help and insight. Also worried if I will be fighting bioload too much for the corals. Also if I do this list am I fully stocked or do I have room for 1 or 2 small fish in the future. I plan on stocking very slow so my 600lbs of LR, skimmer and ATS can keep up.
yes, they are very aggressive. I must have missed this since they are NOT a good community fish (I thought you were doing a melanurus wrasse). Some people feel that if they are added last that all will be well. I do not agree.
Hi,
I'm new to the hobby, tank is currently nearing the end of its cycle.
DT: 129g + 16g sump = 135g System Volume
Dimensions: 51"x28" (129cm x 70cm)
~120lb live rock (all supplied live, some growth and coralline on there)
Shallow aragonite substrate (2mm+ sized grains white color)
Skimmer is a Red Sea Max C-1800 (tank is Red Sea Max 500)
My goals are
1] To keep a mixed reed, SPS dominated reef
2] I would like one medium sized school of small fish
3] A pair of clowns, preferably tank bred and mated pair, with a host coal
4] As peaceful, docile behaviour as possible
The only "must have" is a pair of Ocellaris Clowns (my daughters would be devastated if memo doesn't come to live on the reef!)
After that I'm considering a school of like fish (hopefully 10 like fish)
Sunshine/Olive Chromis
Royal Gramma or Brazilian Grammar
Longfin Cardinalfish
1x Dwarf angel (Flame or Potters)
1x Tang (Powder Blue or Chevron)
Read lots of people love their Gobies esp. Diamond Goby. That would work for me. Will the diamond goby live with a shrimp and if so which shrimp would I need to get?
I plan to introduce the CUC first (next week) and start introducing fish from smallest first about a month later.
Don't enjoy seeing the CUC in the main tank, so algae gazing fish are preferable to snails, hermit crabs, shrimps. I'm also considering growing chaeto or mixed algae in a refrugium - mostly to limit PH swings, if that helps keep nutrient levels down so much the better, but my expectations of the fugue keeping nutrients down is low. I'll run biopellets in a reactor and/or dose NOPOX. I have both, and am also running carbon.
So 15 fish total, mostly small. Questions:
- Any comments / suggestions gotcha's in my fish selections?
- What would be my best choice for a host coral for the Ocellaris Clowns? Assume I can't keep a real anenome though it might be fun to try. Second choice would be an elegance coral, does it need to be in place before the fish arrive or is order not important?
- Introduce dwarf angel and tang last? (At same time or separately?)
- If I would like a school of 10 chromes... do I need to add them at the same time or gradually is OK
- Are there any members of the CUC that will thrive in the sump or do I need them in DT
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/pointers.
--
Cheers,
-Droog
I'm new to the hobby, tank is currently nearing the end of its cycle.
DT: 129g + 16g sump = 135g System Volume
Dimensions: 51"x28" (129cm x 70cm)
~120lb live rock (all supplied live, some growth and coralline on there)
Shallow aragonite substrate (2mm+ sized grains white color)
Skimmer is a Red Sea Max C-1800 (tank is Red Sea Max 500)
My goals are
1] To keep a mixed reed, SPS dominated reef
2] I would like one medium sized school of small fish
3] A pair of clowns, preferably tank bred and mated pair, with a host coal
4] As peaceful, docile behaviour as possible
The only "must have" is a pair of Ocellaris Clowns (my daughters would be devastated if memo doesn't come to live on the reef!)
After that I'm considering a school of like fish (hopefully 10 like fish)
Sunshine/Olive Chromis
Royal Gramma or Brazilian Grammar
Longfin Cardinalfish
1x Dwarf angel (Flame or Potters)
1x Tang (Powder Blue or Chevron)
Read lots of people love their Gobies esp. Diamond Goby. That would work for me. Will the diamond goby live with a shrimp and if so which shrimp would I need to get?
I plan to introduce the CUC first (next week) and start introducing fish from smallest first about a month later.
Don't enjoy seeing the CUC in the main tank, so algae gazing fish are preferable to snails, hermit crabs, shrimps. I'm also considering growing chaeto or mixed algae in a refrugium - mostly to limit PH swings, if that helps keep nutrient levels down so much the better, but my expectations of the fugue keeping nutrients down is low. I'll run biopellets in a reactor and/or dose NOPOX. I have both, and am also running carbon.
So 15 fish total, mostly small. Questions:
- Any comments / suggestions gotcha's in my fish selections?
- What would be my best choice for a host coral for the Ocellaris Clowns? Assume I can't keep a real anenome though it might be fun to try. Second choice would be an elegance coral, does it need to be in place before the fish arrive or is order not important?
- Introduce dwarf angel and tang last? (At same time or separately?)
- If I would like a school of 10 chromes... do I need to add them at the same time or gradually is OK
- Are there any members of the CUC that will thrive in the sump or do I need them in DT
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/pointers.
--
Cheers,
-Droog
Hi Steve,
Is this setup maxed out with creatures? Hopefully the clam will get bigger and the Suncoral will multiply, but is there room for another assessor and a couple of pygmy wrasse. Oh, there would be a cleaning crew appropriate for the 75 gals. The CUC would be more impoortant than the extra fish.
Thanks again for all your advice.
bryan
75 gallon 36X20X24, 6 inches of sand, with one triangular (10x10x10) ceramic ledge held up by a leg/pillar on each corner of the ledge. This ledge would be about 9 inches from the water surface. Other ceramic rock-scaping, low grotto type, to divide up the tank area and provide hiding areas
Planned stocking: (I ran the tank stocking by Steve in the beginners thread.)
- Bonded pair of Randall Shrimp Gobies, with shrimp
- Bonded pair Chinstrap Jawfish
- Sun Corals under the ledge (more in the shade)
- Squamosa Clam on the ledge if feasible to do this, using an LED pendant)
- 1 Yellow Assessor(s)
- 1 Pygmy Wrasse
- Maybe an Orchid Dottyback
Is this setup maxed out with creatures? Hopefully the clam will get bigger and the Suncoral will multiply, but is there room for another assessor and a couple of pygmy wrasse. Oh, there would be a cleaning crew appropriate for the 75 gals. The CUC would be more impoortant than the extra fish.
Thanks again for all your advice.
bryan
75 gallon 36X20X24, 6 inches of sand, with one triangular (10x10x10) ceramic ledge held up by a leg/pillar on each corner of the ledge. This ledge would be about 9 inches from the water surface. Other ceramic rock-scaping, low grotto type, to divide up the tank area and provide hiding areas
Planned stocking: (I ran the tank stocking by Steve in the beginners thread.)
- Bonded pair of Randall Shrimp Gobies, with shrimp
- Bonded pair Chinstrap Jawfish
- Sun Corals under the ledge (more in the shade)
- Squamosa Clam on the ledge if feasible to do this, using an LED pendant)
- 1 Yellow Assessor(s)
- 1 Pygmy Wrasse
- Maybe an Orchid Dottyback
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