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04/26/2012, 02:01 PM | #1 |
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Too many fish?
I have a 180g softie reef with the following fish: tassled filefish, orangespot filefish, cherub pygmy angel, black velvet/gray poma angel, radiant wrasse, hump/turret back cowfish, copperband, carberryi anthia and squampinnis anthia.
I am considering adding a group of either 5 royal grammas or 10 blue eyed cardinals, but am concerned about the bioload. What do you guys think?
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04/26/2012, 03:15 PM | #2 |
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I think adding five of either will stay well within your stocking limits.
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04/26/2012, 06:09 PM | #3 |
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The most royal grammas I would suggest adding is two, one male & one female. Anthias are a great group of fish to add to any medium sized tank.
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I've read of people having success with groups of grammas. I wouldn't put in two as I think they'd be guaranteed to square off. The problem with anthias is they don't always shoal and most of them, IMO, look like goldfish.
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04/27/2012, 05:30 PM | #5 |
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I personally get the same appearance of a shoal by having a large group (6+) fish that all have similar colors and shape. For me it's the same difference, it doesn't matter that they are all right next to each other all the time. If they look like goldfish then I suggest getting some pink ones; I haven't ever seen a pink and purple goldfish...
If you add a male and a female gramma you'll be just fine. Adding multiple males will leave you with one over time.
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04/27/2012, 08:21 PM | #6 |
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Bartlett's tend to do better if ther's only one and Evansi are a bit on the delicate side.
Hmmm, maybe a bunch of barnacle blennies or pearly jawfish.
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Ther are some sick anthias fish definitely not gold fish haha. but even a pack of chromis can look cool too!
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Thanks for the suggestion though.
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I've had a group of 8 of these big boys for over a year now. They are all bark and no bite! Thinking of adding a group of lyretails to mix up the colors.
Ultimately you decide what goes in your tank.
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i thin u will be fine but if u are going to add the cardinals i would only do 5
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