New 180 Fowlr Stocking list

[jjj1100]

3 months ago I added 180lbs of live rock, and 150 lbs of live sand. The tank has a 40 gallon sump and about 10X turnover for flow and an ASMG3 for skimming. I decided to get aggresive fish that I can watch grow out over time so here is the list so far. ( I do not plan on keeping them there when they near there full grown size...or when real aggression sets in, so far everything is perfect)

1 have been adding the fish over the last 1.5 months one at a time save that of the angels

1.5 inch clown trigger
2 inch Flame Angel
2.5 inch Annularius Angel
3 inch Navarachus Angel
4 inch Emperor Angel
4 inch White Cheek Tang
2.5 inch Stars and Stripes Puffer
3 Inch Sand Sifting Goby
10 inch snow flake eel

100 blue leg hermits
100 snails
...maybe less now that the puffer and clown trigger noticed how tasty they are...


I was thinking about adding a small fuzzy dwarf lion fish, an austrailian harlieqin tusk and possibly a mappa puffer and then calling it a day...is this over kill for stocking???

[wooden_reefer]

"I do not plan on keeping them there when they near there full grown size...or when real aggression sets in, so far everything is perfect"

Your clown trigger not have to be evicted in a couple of years.

For me, with setup with high nitrification capacity, the bioload of a FO tank is determined mostly by behavioral considerations.

Power interruption is also a major consideration. Be prepared to lose them all more quickly if the power goes out when you have more fish, unless you plan well ahead.

[jjj1100]

power outage won't be a problem...i bought a generator after i lost alot of my 300 gallon reef in a "freak" October storm. I will be monitoring the paramatars and aggresion, and will be doing a 50g water change every 2 weeks to keep water levels in check

[snusa]

No 180 gallon is big. I have more than 20 fish in my 75 gallons.
What skimmer do you have?

[Grins]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10399308#post10399308 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by snusa
No 180 gallon is big. I have more than 20 fish in my 75 gallons.
What skimmer do you have?

number of fish is all very relative considering the differences in adult size of fish.

[WDWDen]

Are you happy with your ASMG3 skimmer? I have a similar tank and I'm looking for a better skimmer.

[jjj1100]

I love the asm g3 skimmers...i have 2 on my 300 gallon reef and they work excellent. So far it is even pulling out skimate from the 180 really well seeing as the fish are all very small so far

[Avi]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10398813#post10398813 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jjj1100
power outage won't be a problem...i bought a generator after i lost alot of my 300 gallon reef in a "freak" October storm.

Could you say which generator you decided on?

[jjj1100]

generator is a briggs and straton...works great...it runs my 300g reef with halides, pumps, heaters, skimmers, plasma tv and xbox like a champion