Stocking Opinions/Advice

[generaltoaster]

Our club has recently added another tank to the campus: in the art room.
Pressure is high to provide colorful and artistic fish! (Also students do not seem to understand the concept of "waiting" and cycling)

It is an open top, 12gal aquapod. Will have pretty much only soft coral, maybe a select few LPS since lighting is expensive. (Using the older par38 from our previous build)

I need suggestions of fish to put in that'll do for this tank so I can put together a packet and let my esteemed colleagues choose what they desire.

Also, I might add, every year the art students do an aquatic life project.. maybe we can inspire a little reef in them!

 

[Wills612]

A yellow or green clown goby would be cool.

 

[generaltoaster]

Probably should've mentioned that we already have a green clown in our tank in the library. It's more of a last resort than a first choice, considering we already have one.

 

[Jet Black]

We were hoping to get a mandarin that eats frozen. Other then that we may do a blenny or goby of some sort.

 

[cota472]

Yellow watchmans are cool, If I didnt have the midas blenny, I would get a YWG.

 

[toky916]

Pistol shrimp with goby

 

[Jet Black]

Pistol shrimp with goby

We were planning on that for the tank we are setting up in the office. The other fish for the office would be a small pair of maroon clownfish.

 

[generaltoaster]

I like the idea of a watchman

 

[toky916]

U guys sure do have tons of tanks at school why not set up one big tank 40gal ?

 

[Jet Black]

We have four tanks at the school, largest being a FW 26. We've also kindof just started taking care of some of the teachers tanks which are all freshwater.

We don't really have a place for one large tank. If we were to do something like that it would have to be out in the open where everyone could see and right now the bio cube is the best we've got. We're still not sure if we can find a space for it, fire codes and picky teachers and crap like that. Also the way our school is built is there are no outlets ANYWHERE but when there is they are in the most inconvenient place.

 

[Saltwaternooby]

what about the ruby red dragonett?

 

[Paulca916]

what about the ruby red dragonett?

Good call Anthony :thumbsup:
Now that's a nice interesting fish.

 

[Saltwaternooby]

Definitely a conversation starter/ eye catching

 

[generaltoaster]

oh definitely! that's a great one Anthony

 

[Sleepy22]

Neon gobies are cool!.....i would also put some sexy shrimp

 

[Jet Black]

We could definitely try a neon goby. We have sexy shrimp in the 8 gallon and they're kind of hard to see, good camouflage. Still love them though.

Hannah really likes the ruby red, I'm assuming they would they require a lot of care? We have to keep everything really easy, we don't want teachers having to do a lot of work, or even worse calling us on the intercom because the fish is "swimming" weird.

Good ideas guys! Keep them coming!

 

[bfliflet]

"Ruby Red" aka "Moyer's Dragonet" (and others in the dragonet family) might be hard in a small tank unless you can get it to eat prepared foods ahead of time. One of my favorite personality fish is a Midas Blenny -- bright, active, relatively small and easy to feed. The only challenge is making sure it doesn't jump.

 

[Jet Black]

I was originally thinking of blennies, they have great personality. The biocube has a fully enclosed hood so no jumping out or into the back chambers. I have had a tailspot in an open top 20 though for about a year and I haven't really given it that much thought.

I think that unless we can find a dragonet eating mostly dry foods so that the teacher can do daily feeds with us coming in periodically to do frozen that we are out of luck.

 

[generaltoaster]

gosh darn we sure picked a difficult hobby...

 

[Jet Black]

And an expensive one...

My English teacher said that she stood there for ten minutes looking for a fish before one of the office aids broke and told her nothing was in the tank.:lmao: