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    Need Advice On Future Additions

    Hello everyone,
    I am still somewhat new to saltwater hobby, so I am looking for a few words of wisdom and perhaps personal opinions. I currently have a 110 gallon tank with approximately 140 lbs of LR with coarse crushed coral substrate. I have a 20 gallon refugium with 4" DSB and cheato algea. My lighting consists of 2-65 fluorescent 10,000k and 2-65w actinic compact bulbs with LED moonlight.

    Current Livestock:
    -Yellow Tang
    -Black & White Chromis
    -Blue Green Chromis
    -Ocellaris Clownfish (2)
    -Cleaner Wrasse
    -Long Spine Urchin (planning to move it to the refugium once I get soft corals or bringing it back to the store)
    -Sally Lightfoot (3)
    -Hermits (approx. 8-10)
    -Zebra Turbo Snail
    -Nassarius Snail (approx. 5-7)
    Want:
    -Blue Mandarin
    -Spotted Mandarin
    -Flame Angel
    -Blue Hippo Tang
    -Imperator Angelfish or Koran Angelfish
    -Copperband Butterflyfish (also okay with other types of butterflyfish that would work better with my setup)
    -Bangaii Cardinals
    -Australian Black Percula Clownfish (2)
    -A goby that would work with crushed coral
    -Want some reef safe wrasse
    -Some sort of shrimp that will live well with corals and desired future fish
    Goal:
    -Have a reef tank that has soft corals. Wanting corals with a lot of color, while being hardie is most important.

    Would the livestock that I want work with what I already have (excluding the urchin) and would they work well with my goal of getting into soft corals? Are their any other colorful fish that anyone would recommend that I consider?

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    Re: Need Advice On Future Additions

    The flame angel is a beautiful fish and I want one also but choose to not get one for my 72 gal. reef mixed tank. After much research and asking I decided these fish are hit and miss with corals. Some even report no problems and then years later start picking at coral. Your stock list total seems very large for the tank but I didn't stop and figure it out. Remember it is better to introduce the least aggressive fish first so they can establish.

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    Re: Need Advice On Future Additions

    Quote Originally Posted by ShooterRick View Post
    The flame angel is a beautiful fish and I want one also but choose to not get one for my 72 gal. reef mixed tank. After much research and asking I decided these fish are hit and miss with corals. Some even report no problems and then years later start picking at coral. Your stock list total seems very large for the tank but I didn't stop and figure it out. Remember it is better to introduce the least aggressive fish first so they can establish.
    +1 I totally agree here. Most of you rwant fish are way to big for your tank also.


 

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