Fish Compatability

[lakee911]

Hello,

I currently have a 120Gal FOWLR tank with a moorish idol, two blue chromis, a yellow watchman goby, two skunk cleaner shrimp, lots of turbo snails and lots of blue legged hermit crabs.

Tank was moved in Dec and has been doing fine for a while.

I'm thinking of adding some or all of the following fish (not all at once) and want to see if there are any compatability problems a Coral Beauty, a flame angel, yellow tang and blue tang.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Jason

[Jerry W]

The angels may fight. The YT would be better suited to that size tank. I wouldn't push it, simply due to having the idol. That's a fish that can go south very quickly, and often times changs to the environment or population can upset the apple cart. I'd leave the MI as the centerpiece fish and select a couple small fish to round out the tank. Stay away from potentially big, active swimmers.

[Sk8r]

One tang, not two, IMHO---they're likely to start warfare and upset the idol. The hippo is ich-prone, grows huge [10 inches], and is less hardy than the yellow, which grows only to 8.