mattgumaer
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I've now had my new standard 180 gallon up and running for a couple of months. Most fish were moved from my previous 90 gallon. My current stocking is the following:
2 percula clowns
1 one-spotted foxface
1 orangeback fairy wrasse
1 McCosker's flasher wrasse (still pretty small)
1 copperband butterflyfish
1 orange spotted goby with snapping shrimp
1 mandarin
1 yellow clown goby (carrying over from my original 8 gallon nano tank).
I'd like to add a group of active colorful fish and maybe a couple of tangs.
As for the 'group' of colorful fish, I thinking either a group of anthias or maybe some more fairy wrasses. My concerns with the anthias would be that they are too aggressive for the rest of the tank. My concerns with more fairy wrasses would be incompatibility with each other and too many wrasses may out compete my mandarin for pods. Suggestions?
As for the tangs, again a have a concern they would be generally too aggressive for the tank. However, I'm hopeful, as I don't think any of my existing fish are really likely to draw a lot of attention from the tang(s), particularly if added last. I'd like a kole tang and maybe one other. Suggestions?
Thanks for any input. So far the upgrade has gone smoothly so I want to be careful with my fish choices. The tank is a mixed reef, weighted towards sps corals so the flow is moderately high.
Matt
2 percula clowns
1 one-spotted foxface
1 orangeback fairy wrasse
1 McCosker's flasher wrasse (still pretty small)
1 copperband butterflyfish
1 orange spotted goby with snapping shrimp
1 mandarin
1 yellow clown goby (carrying over from my original 8 gallon nano tank).
I'd like to add a group of active colorful fish and maybe a couple of tangs.
As for the 'group' of colorful fish, I thinking either a group of anthias or maybe some more fairy wrasses. My concerns with the anthias would be that they are too aggressive for the rest of the tank. My concerns with more fairy wrasses would be incompatibility with each other and too many wrasses may out compete my mandarin for pods. Suggestions?
As for the tangs, again a have a concern they would be generally too aggressive for the tank. However, I'm hopeful, as I don't think any of my existing fish are really likely to draw a lot of attention from the tang(s), particularly if added last. I'd like a kole tang and maybe one other. Suggestions?
Thanks for any input. So far the upgrade has gone smoothly so I want to be careful with my fish choices. The tank is a mixed reef, weighted towards sps corals so the flow is moderately high.
Matt
