Stocking ideas for 100g reef

[rssjsb]

You absolutely can mix flashers or fairy wrasses, just do your research ahead of time. Some of the fairy wrasses especially are kind of nasty. And they *will* jump.

Also, I might avoid putting a sunburst in with your bartlett's and lyretails. The former is likely to be bullied by the latter two.

 

[SecretiveFish]

...And aren't hamlet's "mini-groupers" that when they get bigger feast on smaller fish and inverts?

They are, but I am not sure if 'feast' is the right word at least not for mine. Mine lives with a smaller false perc clownfish, a green mandarin, snails, an urchin, two serpent stars, a coral banded shrimp, and used to live with hermit crabs (I removed the hermit crabs because they were super food aggressive and were decimating my snails, not sure what type they were but they got huge, fit in turbo shells, and were brown with white tipped legs and claws). He has been in my tank for over a year and I think he is full grown. He eats small pieces of krill (those whole frozen pieces of krill are too big for him to eat I have to tear them into small pieces), mysid shrimp, and meaty pellets.

I would imagine really small fish like clown gobies would be at risk as well as small shrimp like bumblebee shrimp, but I would be surprised otherwise.

 

[29144u]

solorensis wrasse

 

[igot2gats]

I've always been a fan of smaller fish. This way, you can pack more smaller fish into a bigger tank, and the movement is crazy awesome to watch.

On that note: Orange Lined Cardinalfish, Court Jester Goby, Bi Color Blenny, Purple Striped Dottyback.

If you're going to do a Copperband, make sure you read the primer on it first.

That's all. Good luck.

 

[Reef1121]

I just put in a order at my LFS for a Midas Blenny and a replacement Bartlett's anthia (apparently the male jumped out of the QT at my friends house last night). That Should keep things interesting for a couple weeks that way I wont be adding things to quickly causing the tank to cycle again.

I'll have to check into the Hamlets more and see what other people have seen from their experiences (not saying anything bad about yours) just want to make sure everything in the tank will be happy the first time around. And from what I've been seeing its hard to get the blue one's cause they most come in in a drab reddish orange color. Might be a seasonal type of fish.

I'm going to go to my LFS tomorrow and look thru their quality marine catalog and see what wrasses are available then report back and see what you guys think of my choices and if they'll work together. And also still open for more suggestions.

 

[Reef1121]

So looked at a listing of wrasses and here's what I found interesting. Tell me if they would work together, or wont work together, and maybe some user experience if anyone has any. I notice I cant have all of them in one tank due to the number of them and the other additions I want to make. Also will be adding my bartlett's trio back into the tank later today so that should be interesting to see. Ill post pics once everyone is settled in. So here's the list:
Exquisite wrasse (Cirrhilabrus exquisitus)
Fairy Lineatus Super Male (Cirrhilabrus lineatus)
Flame wrasse pair (Cirrhilabrus jordani)
Golden Rhomboidalis male (Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis)
Laboute's Fairy pair (Cirrhilabrus Laboutei)
Scotts Velvet wrasse (Cirrhilabus scottorum)
Radiant wrasse (Halichoeres iridis)
Mysteri wrasse (Pseudocheilinus ocellatus)

Obviously cant have all of them, but if had to narrow it to a few what would be the best combo?