Stocking questions

[drew930]

I am going to do a 180 with 40B sump . I will be using a SRO3000INT . If I was to put 3-4 tangs in that tank and started small . How many other fish could I put in there .

I wanted :
3-4 tangs
2 clowns
Angelfish
2 cardinals
2 gobies
Maybe a dottyback
Maybe a wrasse or rabbitfish

Is this to much ?

 

[SecretiveFish]

IMO, yes that is too many fish. However with a few tweaks you could be off and running.

My suggestions with more questions:
- 3 tangs (maybe a 1 yellow/purple/scopas tang, 1 kole or tomini tang, and 1 other smaller tang. I would stay away from naso tangs, sailfin tangs, vlamingi tangs, and blue tangs. They get to big.)
- 2 clowns
- Maybe an angelfish (What kind? Dwarf or large? Angelfish can severely limit what type of corals you can keep)
- 2 cardinals
- 2 gobies (What kind?)
- Maybe a dottyback (These can be pretty aggressive and may not mix with the rest of your fish choices. I believe that the orchid dottyback is the least aggressive of these guys).
- Wrasse (Personally, I would skip the rabbitfish. They get extremely large, may mess with corals, and are big eaters == lots of waste.)

 

[drew930]

Coral beauty I'm thinking . He's been in my small tank for a year and hasn't touched coral yet .

I love the looks of the golden head sleeper goby , but in my experience , they tend to swim half way up the tank before dropping sand . They drop sand on corals . So probably diamond gobies . If it's not a diamond , I want something colorful ,

 

[SecretiveFish]

Honestly, it seems like you have a good plan. With our added information, I think that the only suggestion I have is that I would not add more than 3 tangs.

I do not suggest the rabbit fish as there are many accounts out there of scribbled rabbitfish deciding that corals are delicious after awhile. We had a one spot foxface that we finally got rid of. Despite being fatter than a pic, he would steal all of the food from the other more timid fish and he was a complete spaz. Anything could startle him and he would crash and dash behind the rocks panicking everybody. Now that he is gone, we see all of our other fish a lot more.

I have not had good luck with sleeper gobies either (killed a couple fungias) and do not plan to ever keep one again.

 

[drew930]

Okay . I consider all comments ... Because I haven't own a dottyback , and only had a foxface when he was small , and didn't have much coral . Thanks for the info !!