Yet another 70 gallon softie reef - Fish List

[Greg129]

How does this sound for a 70 gallon (36" x 18" x 24")?:

-Yellow Tang
-Coral Beauty Angelfish
-Yellow Tail Blue Damselfish
-Mandarin Dragonet (6 months after tank is stable)
2 x Ocellaris Clownfish

Will all of the fish live in harmony? Am I overstocking? Should I scrap the Mandarin?

 

[Julio]

sounds good to me.

 

[Greg129]

Thanks for the post. Anyone else care to comment?

 

[Teremei]

sounds simlular to mine. Very good. My friend has a yellow tail and they are the "safest" of the devils (IE: Less aggresive). .

I'm going to be upgrading to a 125 but checkout what I have in my 55 (all living perfectly fine together). .

Coral Beauty
2 Occelaris
Royal Gramma
Green Mandarin
Neon Goby
Y Clown Goby

1 word of advice for the Mandarin. Get them to try to feed all mandarins at the store, take the one that is readily and eagerly eating any frozen food they put in the tank. Bring that one home. Also having a fuge on the side helps to grow copepods. Your tank is perfectly fine for a mandarin. The more pourous rocks and fuge space you have, the better. .

 

[jasonkola]

I think the list is ok but I would wait at least a year after the tank is established to add the mandarin.

 

[Iammatt219]

sound like a good list but I owuld recommend getting a pod starter kit b4 adding any fish. This way you can obtain a larger number of pods at a faster rate

 

[jasonkola]

I have never heard of a pod starter kit where can one aquire one of these and what are they? I tried keeping a manadrin several times unsuccesfully. I believe I didn't have enough pods as I tried differant suppliers and none lived. after the 4th I gave up. if I could get a good supply of pods established I think I could keep one.

 

[Iammatt219]

check inlandaquatics they sell kits or specific pods, or ipsf who also does the same I think