atraperegrinus
11/14/2016, 10:19 PM
Hey guys, I currently have in my tank:
1 x Yellow tang
1 x Tomini Tang
1x Engineer goby ( tank is bare bottom mostly so this guy might still be temporary haven't decided yet )
1 x Melanurus Wrasse
1 x Orchid Dottyback
1 x Harlequin Basslet
Tank is a 110 gallon 48x24x22, coast to coast overflow, with a 125g 6 foot sump. Mixed reef, few crabs, lots of shrimp ( 2 cleaner 1 fire/blood shrimp, 1 yellow banded shrimp ) oversized skimmer, and algae turf scrubber. estimate 180g-200g total system water.
I'm looking to add a few more fish in the future here and am kind of stuck on ideas.
I was considering the following, not all of these but some, a mix/match of whatever i think will work out best from this list:
-Midas Blenny
-Mandarin
-Copper Band Butterfly ( i know hard to care for, and might be possible bad mix with yellow tang )
-Coral Beauty ( might nip at lps.. undecided if worth the try )
-Maybe a small group, couple Anthias
-Chalk basslet ( had one before, first one jumped sadly.)
-Fuzzy dwarf lion
-another wrasse of some sort
-powder brown tang ( likely too small of a tank for this, but one of my favs besides Achilles which i wont even considering trying )
i would love to get the powder brown but i feel the tank would probably be too cramped for him. one of these would be easily my top 3 out of this list.
also really like the butterfly for potential aiptasia control, but my tangs are a-holes and I'd bet it wouldn't end well if i tried one.
Anyway, looking for educated instruction as to how many off this list would be possible additions to my tank, i feed the crap out of my tank and the scrubber would have no problem keeping up with at least a few more fish for sure. my screen is sized currently for 4 cubes/food worth a day and i feed about that staying under <1 nitrate and phosphate stays between .01-.03, and im only using half the available area i could, so if i needed to i could increase to almost triple that feeding capacity.
thanks anyone who can chime in, feel free to also make reef safe recommendations for neat fish, nothing plain or boring. Thanks!
1 x Yellow tang
1 x Tomini Tang
1x Engineer goby ( tank is bare bottom mostly so this guy might still be temporary haven't decided yet )
1 x Melanurus Wrasse
1 x Orchid Dottyback
1 x Harlequin Basslet
Tank is a 110 gallon 48x24x22, coast to coast overflow, with a 125g 6 foot sump. Mixed reef, few crabs, lots of shrimp ( 2 cleaner 1 fire/blood shrimp, 1 yellow banded shrimp ) oversized skimmer, and algae turf scrubber. estimate 180g-200g total system water.
I'm looking to add a few more fish in the future here and am kind of stuck on ideas.
I was considering the following, not all of these but some, a mix/match of whatever i think will work out best from this list:
-Midas Blenny
-Mandarin
-Copper Band Butterfly ( i know hard to care for, and might be possible bad mix with yellow tang )
-Coral Beauty ( might nip at lps.. undecided if worth the try )
-Maybe a small group, couple Anthias
-Chalk basslet ( had one before, first one jumped sadly.)
-Fuzzy dwarf lion
-another wrasse of some sort
-powder brown tang ( likely too small of a tank for this, but one of my favs besides Achilles which i wont even considering trying )
i would love to get the powder brown but i feel the tank would probably be too cramped for him. one of these would be easily my top 3 out of this list.
also really like the butterfly for potential aiptasia control, but my tangs are a-holes and I'd bet it wouldn't end well if i tried one.
Anyway, looking for educated instruction as to how many off this list would be possible additions to my tank, i feed the crap out of my tank and the scrubber would have no problem keeping up with at least a few more fish for sure. my screen is sized currently for 4 cubes/food worth a day and i feed about that staying under <1 nitrate and phosphate stays between .01-.03, and im only using half the available area i could, so if i needed to i could increase to almost triple that feeding capacity.
thanks anyone who can chime in, feel free to also make reef safe recommendations for neat fish, nothing plain or boring. Thanks!