Stocking List for 120

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My tank has finished cycling. YAY! :D Now I am ready to work on stocking it. I hope to start with a FOWLR and then in the future upgrade to a reef so my fish selection has been made with that in mind.

I've made a tentative fish list and wanted to run it by the forum to ensure I'm not overdoing it. The tang police may be called in on this one.

I already have a mated pair of clowns, a couple fire shirmp, 2 serpent stars and a bunch of crabs. My list includes livestock I currently have and would like to get later.

I'd also like suggestions on what order I should be adding these fish in.

STSTEM
120 gallon - 4'x2'x2'
200 gallons total system volume
about 135 lbs of live rock
90 lbs aragonite substrate

FISH
Blue Hippo Tang
Another Tang - not Yellow, maybe Purple
Blue Throat Trigger
Mated Ocellaris Clowns
Flame Angel and/or Midnight Black Angel
Lawnmower Blenny
Royal Gramma Basslet
Green Mandarin (later on)
Goby/Pistol Shrimp pair (provided the pistol doesn't eat my other shrimp)

INVERTS
2 blood shrimp
2 skunk cleaner shrimp
2 peppermint shrimp
2 scarlet hermit
3 electric blue hermits
many blue leg hermit
various snails
very large black serpent star
tiger striped serpent star

TIA for any suggestions.
 
My only reservation from personal experience is do not add a yellow or purple tang. They are way too territorial and once added, they will not let you add any other larger fish to the tank.

If you are looking for yellow and algae eater, I would go with a foxface. They are very peaceful and will not pick on other fish.

JMHO,

Carlos
 
I was considering a foxface as an alternate to another tang but the better half thinks they are ugly...

Just to note that I am looking to get small specimens so over crowding hopefully won't be a problem for a while.
 
I have the same tank. I may be overstocked...but I have

Tenneti Tang
Powder Brown Tang
Caribean Blue Tang (baby)
Lawnmower Blenny
Engineer Goby
5 blue/green Chromis
Pair of Perc Clownfish
 
Pretty impressive list - especially the Engineer Goby...I love those!!!


<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11051091#post11051091 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nauticac4
I have the same tank. I may be overstocked...but I have

Tenneti Tang
Powder Brown Tang
Caribean Blue Tang (baby)
Lawnmower Blenny
Engineer Goby
5 blue/green Chromis
Pair of Perc Clownfish
Click to expand...
 
I have the follwing tangs in my tank. I did loose a Sailfin Desjardni Tang but that was my own fault I added him by himself. The second one I added with a Yellow, and Alantic Blue.
I added the fish in this order, and I would recomend if you dont add them all at once add them in groups. I was told that it confuses the ones that are already in the tank who to go after.


Group 1
Purple Tang
Sailfin Tang
Brown Scopas Tang

Goup 2 about 1 month later
Sailfin Desjardni Tang - got killed

Group 3 (about 2 weeks after the death of my Desjardni)
Blue Hippo Tang
Kole Tang
Powder Brown
Orange Shoulder Tang (jv)
Naso Tang

Group 4 (about a month later)
Atlantic Blue Tang
Sailfin Desjardni Tang
Yellow Tang

Since then they have all been living in peace for 4 months or so. I also have additonal fish living in the tank (4 small angesls, 2 clowns, a niger trigger and a blue line trigger). So far so good. None has killed one and other.
 
Well I guess my list isn't overstocking compared to that.

If I do get a couple tangs I will certainly QT and add them at the same time. I don't think I will need to do that with fish like a basslets, blennies, etc.

Any other comments about my list or order of addition?
 
Joe, your list is fine. I figure you can have about 12-15 fish, so long as they're mostly small fish, with a few exceptions.

mgtesting.....
The reason that the LFS can have a 240w with 40+ tangs in it is that none of them are perminent residents, not to mention that they've surely got that system plumbed into an enormous sump, then also have an enormous skimmer, and also they can do water changes two or three times a week or not because since it's just a fish holding system, as long as the ammonia and nitrite are converted to nitrate, fish can take a lot of nitrate before they get sick.

you can't keep that dense a fish population comfortably in a reef tank. Maybe a FOWLR, but not a sucessful clean one. ::shrug:: IMO

I've got probably about 12 or so fish, but only one large tang, the rest relatively smaller fish.

1 Dejardini Sailfin
1 Rusty Angel
1 Coral Beauty Angel
2 Neon Dottybacks
1 Tiny True Perc
2 Blue/Green Chromis
1 Randal's Goby
1 Dispar Anthia

I've got a big skimmer (EuroReef 8-2) and a refugium to help deal with the bioload.

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/EricDKlein/Photos9507/photo#5120301548527141378"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/EricDKlein/Rw73IT7XwgI/AAAAAAAAAEE/319O8C5tlpM/s800/DSC_0051.JPG" /></a>
 
Wow... I have 214 Tangs in a 5 gallon nano...

Both 11 Tangs in a 105 and 40 Tangs in a 240 are to many.

The long term survival and overall health of the fish will be compromised...

The bioload cause by proper feeding would make keeping SPS very tricky.

For the record I have 5 Tangs in my 500. A Blue, Black, Powder Blue, Purple and Kole.. They get along fine, are feed welll and have plenty room to grow and swim..

Happy Reefing
 
I am going to have to differ to most of you since you have more experience then my. I am still only on my first year for reef keeping. However all my readings are good and a do a 20 gallon water change every Friday. I am also currently ozone which might help reduce any issues.

Also the LFS with 40+ tangs in the tank are not sold it is just a display reef tank, however you are correct they are on a huge system with at least 30 other tanks with fish for sale.

The link is a picture of my tank… I am an awful photographer but just want to show that I do have a few tangs living in harmony.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=229084

Finally for Ricks I am leaning towards setting up a large tank 500-1000 gallons. You would not happen to have any pictures of your setup, I am having an awful time figuring out how I want to hook everything up.

Thank you
 
i agree with carlos about the yellow tang! my husband put one in when we started with ours. she would nip at the new fish, but when he got a blue tang, she gave her a run for her money! the yellow tang is definitely running the show in the tank!
 
Well than it seems that my bioload is ok. Any suggetion at the order I should add these guys in?

Clowns will be going first as I already have them. I guess the only guys to worry about would be the trigger and tangs. I'd think to put in the trigger last and the tangs at the same time.

The LFS had clown, powder blue, powder brown, sailfin, and yellow in stock. It was sooooooo tempting to see them all in the flesh.
 
Try to not get tangs that are similar as they tend to fight more, so a bowder blue with a pwoder brown would be ok, but a powder blue with a blue, well, not so much....at least that's what I've been told by my LFS

Good luck - looks like you'll be keeping yourself busy :)
 
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