Stock Wish List

[Gtownguy487]

210 Gallon Aquarium
84"x24"x24"

Currently have:

Red Firefish
Blue Hippo Tang
Angel Dwarf
Yellow Butterfly Longnose
3 Osclarrious Clowns
Lawnmower Blenny
Spotted Antihas (aka Blotched Anthias)
Mystery Wrasse
10 peppermint shrimp
2 Skunk Clearners

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Would like to add:

bi-color midas blenny
a pair of red scotter blennys
a pair of diamond gobys
a pair of mandarin gobys
a pair of harlequin shrimp
starry blenny
red scooter dragonet
pearly jawfish
tiger watchman goby
wheelers watchman goby
red lizard blenny

Im also wanting to add a tang possibly either Powder Blue or Gold Rim.

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Im 100% sure I cant have all this but please give your OPINION!!

 

[Gtownguy487]

Anyone okay with this list?

 

[IFbettas]

I highly doubt your tank will be able to provide enough food to keep 5 dragonets and 2 diamond gobies from starving. Also, that is a lot of bottom dwellers for a tank of this size.

Other than that I think it is a pretty good list.

 

[Gtownguy487]

I have a huge amount of pods in my tank... I live with 3 girls so they think the little lawnmower blennys and scooters are very cute... lol As long as i keep the women happy in my house everyone's happy...

 

[Gtownguy487]

also will the shrimps i have listed be alright around my other shrimp?

I wanted to get the harl's incase astro's go outa control i see about 10 of them in my tank already

 

[travis32]

From what I've read harlequins will eat hundreds of asterins a week. I think 210 would be big enough for 2, but, I question whether their populations will surge enough every week for them to be suffiicent in number.

I've had asterins for the last 3.5 months in my 55g tank, and they've surged, then died off, and their numbers seem to have decreased now. No known predators of them in the tank. So, I really question whether you'd have enough food supply for the harlequins. Beautiful shrimp though.

 

[mthomp]

personally i feel you got to many dragonettes. you say you have a lot of pods but you may be underestimating how much they eat in a very short amount of time. if it was me id maybe start with 1 of each at the most. the only other conceren is how many bottom dwellers your looking at adding. a lot of them have similiar shapes and such and ay end up fighting.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Is this in addition to the tangs you also wanted to add to this tank?

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1846574

 

[Gtownguy487]

Yes Todd however i will prob only get the powder blue

Id love to have a powder blue and a gold rim but it seems that its impossible to keep the 2 from fighting...

Everyone keeps talking about sailfins but i will continue to read on that topic before deciding to get one of those.. I have heard they get big and are pretty agressive

 

[PiXieCath]

I'll go with the family, I think that your wish list contain to many dragonets. Stick with a pair of one or the other, but not both, they will certainly starve to death if you add all. Don't underestimate their capacity to feed on pods...even if you're currently have a lot of this little beast. It's normal to having such pods if they don't have any predator in your tank...

For the tang, let me suggest you the chocolate tang. Of my 3 tangs, that's definitly my favorite. He's relatively peacefull for an acanthurus and that's a real beauty. Pics available on the web don't show the real beauty of this fish. Think about it, but IMO, it could be a very interresting add on.

 

[Sardaukar]

I think you will be a little unhappy with how easily small blennies, scooters and gobies tend to disappear into large tanks. You can certainly have some, but I would stick with fish that you know will be in view a lot.

 

[Gtownguy487]

I think you will be a little unhappy with how easily small blennies, scooters and gobies tend to disappear into large tanks. You can certainly have some, but I would stick with fish that you know will be in view a lot.

Suggestions?