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ScottPA

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Hi - I've got my 215 gallon tank cycling with 100 pounds of dry rock. One week into the nitrite phase, which we all know can last a long time.

I have a QT ready and would like to purchase my first fishes tomorrow and get them going through the QP process.

Am thinking a clown goby or some such goby and I pair of True Percs.

Am I foolish to get 2 percs?

I kept an awesome maroon and gold that was hosted by a gigantic anemone before the tank crashed about 6 years ago.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Scott in PA
 
Hi - I've got my 215 gallon tank cycling with 100 pounds of dry rock. One week into the nitrite phase, which we all know can last a long time.

I have a QT ready and would like to purchase my first fishes tomorrow and get them going through the QP process.

Am thinking a clown goby or some such goby and I pair of True Percs.

Am I foolish to get 2 percs?

I kept an awesome maroon and gold that was hosted by a gigantic anemone before the tank crashed about 6 years ago.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Scott in PA

Percs are pretty mean IME, but in a tank that large I don't see why it wouldn't work.

I def would not QT them with anyone else.
 
That's an awfully big tank, congrats!
I would strongly advise you to make a list of all the fish you want to eventually have in the tank, before you buy any. Even a responsibly stocked reef tank is putting wild animals in much closer proximity to each other then they naturally would be. That comes with risks of aggression because of their territorial nature.

Luckily fish are pretty stupid. Sometimes you can trick them into sharing space by adding them in the right order. So if you put the shyest fish first, they have a chance to scope out their safe place and they'll be less likely to try to run away (down the overflow, through the screen on top, etc) or be all stressed out and sickly from homelessness. Then you add more aggressive fish, and they take the tank as they find it, they aren't as prone to attack a smaller fish that was there first.

By that logic, if you add your clowns now, they will bully any less aggro fish you add after. There's lots of fish less aggro than clowns, so you'd be narrowing your options a lot.

Another benefit besides territory is diet. Lots of people buy a wrasse early on because they are fairly hardy. While they aren't picky eaters they do gobble up a lot of the wild food that other fish depend on. When those people later decide they want a mandarin, they are out of luck because it can't compete with a wrasse and get enough food.

Lastly, it's just easier. You don't want to be the guy that bought a blue devil damsel in the beginning and then went crazy trying to trap it like wile e coyote after it killed $500 of fish he tried to add after the damsel decided it owned the tank.

If you make a fish list the smarties here will give you great advice on compatibility and stocking order. It'll save a lot of time and headache. You have so many options with such a big tank, you'll be glad you took your time in the beginning :)

PS welcome to the forum Scott!
 
BTW, here is my M&G
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May ask how to get a profile picture and why my links to my photo's aren't working? UGH!
Thanks in advance.

Your profile pic is an "avatar" which you can edit in your "user control panel" in the top left. Photos may not work if they are posted to sites that this forum isn't friends with. Like, you can't post links to Reddit because a lot of people posted dirty pics from Reddit. I don't recognize the url your posting from, so maybe the filters don't either. Or it could be because you are new. There's a certain number of posts before pics show up, for the same reason.

If you hit "manage attachments" you can upload straight from your phone. Or photobucket works for links ime
 
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