View Full Version : anyone add multiple fish to the reef all at once? how many?
mille239
05/08/2006, 11:13 AM
How many people have added multiple fish to their reef at one time?
looking for numbers of simultaneous additions? tank size? current inhabitants? how long has the tank been set up? quarrantine or no?
any additional remarks are appreciated.
Holyreefer
05/08/2006, 11:24 AM
i just added 3 to my tank on saturday (150 gallons)
no q-t its my fish only setup
1. Black edge eel
2. Porkfish
3. Porcipine puffer
4. Yellow Tang (added 1 day prior to)
I also have a 220 i am about to set back up and am thinking about adding all the fish, maybe 10-15 at a time, prior to adding any corals.
I want a total of about 30 fish... HIGH BIO LOAD
Beal9
05/08/2006, 11:34 AM
I've added several fish at once, but my tank has been up for over a year, is very established, the fish were all small, and it is a 135 gallon with low fish load, good skimmer. It would not be my recommendation to add several fish all at once, especially larger fish and/ or a new tank. Recipe for disaster IMO.
LobsterOfJustice
05/08/2006, 11:46 AM
I added two gobies and a solarensis wrasse at the same time to my 75 gal. 100 lbs of LR, no QT, tank up for over a year. When I added the three, the other fish were a mandarin, mimic lemonpeel tang, majestic angel, two ocellaris clowns, and a male lyretail anthias.
reefNetWork
05/08/2006, 11:48 AM
i added 3 anthias to my 80 gallon reef yesterday. 1 male and 2 females. they are all doing fine. no qt.
ChickenCannoneer
05/08/2006, 01:12 PM
I added 6 anthias at one tim and then 4 more a week later b/c I liked the way they looked so much.
jedi31
05/08/2006, 01:22 PM
I added a purple tang and flame angel a few months ago at the same time. My tank was set up around 5 months at the time. It is a 90 gallon mixed reef. My tank is now 9 months old and The Tang and Flame get along fine. I do have a huge skimmer and a lot of rock which probably helps.
Crusty Old Shellback
05/08/2006, 01:24 PM
400G tank which already had 4 LARGE tangs, fox face and pink tail trigger well estabilished in it. No QT on any of these.
1st addition; Wantanabi angel, 5 royal grammas and 3 wrasses along with a bunch of snails.
2nd addition; 2 square back anthias, 2 copperbanded butterflies, 5 sunburst anthias, bunch of snails, letuce slugs and abalones.
Never had a problem with any addition.
festus
05/08/2006, 02:34 PM
I added 5 chromis at once no problem, tank was already setup and cycled.
I quarantine all new arrivals in my quarentine tank. To date I've not moved any fish out of the quarentine tank. My quarentine tank is a 125 gallon tank setup in the family room. Its the only marine tank I've got ;-)
As a rule, don't. Ask the lfs to hold them for you: they should understand.
Exception: mated pairs and schools should come in together.
Reason: you're loading more biowaste into the system. Bacteria need to multiply to handle it. They do not appear instantaneously: they grow in response to the waste supply. Each fish causes a mini-spike. In a really big, really 'hot' system you can get away with things, but these pages are full of woe from people who put in a huge bioload on a newly cycled tank and some who not only lost all their fish, but crashed the biosystem and had to start over from the invert level up, cycling, and all of it. It's really risky. You CAN, however, put them all into a qt tank with a really strong filtration system (cannister, etc) and ease them one at a time [or with their mate, etc] into the display.
Test water 24 hours after each addition, procede according to results, either wait some more or go ahead.
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