125 Clown Harem, mixed reef

[westmichigan]

My tank went up 9/7/18. I was thinking I could share some pictures and maybe some of my failures and the few things I did that worked out. I'll add some more pics of my coral in the next few days. Just wondering if this would be something people would be interested in seeing progress in or if I'm talking to myself. If nothing else I can start documenting here as stuff changes.

I have 24 vivid fancy clowns
2 emeralds
5 blue hermits
Assorted snails 10ish

2 icecap gyres 3000
1 tunze 9012 skimmer
2 eheim jaguer 150w
10 gallon top off with micro ato
80 lbs of the purple rock off Amazon
80 lbs of crushed coral and sand
Fx6 (removed most of the sponges and added matrix and carbon)
3x Hydra 52 hd

No sump(by far my biggest regret)

Before this tank I had zero knowledge of saltwater. I spent weeks reading and watching youtube. I learned lots of good things but it took me awhile to be able to sort the crap out. I am excited to learn and watch everything grow. I am mostly excited about the coral. The clownfish was just a way to sell this to the boss lady. Although I do enjoy the clowns. Please feel free to comment, criticize, or ask.

 

[Musovski]

This has always been a dream of mine, but i love tangs so much that no matter if my motive is to buy a tank just for clowns, theres always going to be some sort of tang in there.

 

[westmichigan]

This has always been a dream of mine, but i love tangs so much that no matter if my motive is to buy a tank just for clowns, theres always going to be some sort of tang in there.

I do plan on seeing if one tang gets along with everyone down the road. It would be nice to get a fish that constantly swims circles in the tank. My clowns seem to not be very agressive. The local library has a blue tang in a 30 gallon I may offer to adopt down the road. I'm guessing you have some tangs? You think a larger tang would hold it's own against a gang of clowns? They don't even pick on each other so I have a hard time believing they would pick on something like a tang.

 

[Musovski]

Ive got a few tangs and well um... My Yellow eye kole tang is the boss. The first month the yellow and my clowns were non stop nipping each other, the female clown ended up owning up to the Kole, therefore leaving the kole the "King".

I dont believe that the clowns will pick on it. However if they do(which they may since they were there first), the blue tang will get stressed fast. Thoughts on this @4FordFamily ?

 

[4FordFamily]

I do plan on seeing if one tang gets along with everyone down the road. It would be nice to get a fish that constantly swims circles in the tank. My clowns seem to not be very agressive. The local library has a blue tang in a 30 gallon I may offer to adopt down the road. I'm guessing you have some tangs? You think a larger tang would hold it's own against a gang of clowns? They don't even pick on each other so I have a hard time believing they would pick on something like a tang.

I think a tang would work just fine, clowns rarely gang up but they’re more than capable and fearless — one or two big time jerk females could do some damage. It wouldn’t kill the tang likely just nip a chunk out of the fin.

It’s a bit of a risk but I think you’ll be fine.