187g stocking wishlist. Overcrowded?

[Joiningsession]

Another stocking post. Recently cycled my first big boy tank, 187g 60x30x24, and curious if this would be considered potential too much in terms of aggression and bioload/nutrient control? I already have 1-7.

1. Yellow tang
2. Kole tang
3. Gem tang
4. Leopard wrasse
5. Red head Solon wrasse
6. Clown
7. Clown
8. Royal gramma
9. CBB
10. Banggai cardinal
11. Azure damsel
12. Firefish
13. Hectors goby
14. McCoskers flasher wrasse
15. Lubbocks fairy wrasse
16. Pintail fairy wrasse
17. Line spot flasher wrasse
18. Blonde nasso (have a 2-3in I can source)

18 fish “seems” like a lot so not sure if I’m thinking too big. Also I may stick with the yellow, kole, and gem as the 3 tangs in the tank. If I grab the naso, it’s a baby and would only be housed while an acceptable size.

Any thoughts?

 

[LPS Bum]

I would definitely add the two Zebrasoma Tangs at the same time. Same goes for the wrasses. The Naso will be cramped in a 5 foot system eventually. Other than that it looks fine so long as your nutrient export is robust.

 

[ruxsir]

I second this^

 

[Joiningsession]

I would definitely add the two Zebrasoma Tangs at the same time. Same goes for the wrasses. The Naso will be cramped in a 5 foot system eventually. Other than that it looks fine so long as your nutrient export is robust.

Thanks, your thoughts on stocking and adding some fish at same time are in line with my thoughts. Guess my biggest concern is nutrients with the bioload. What would you consider robust?

At this time I only have a skimmer. And a tiny fuge which is mainly for pods. I am wanting to add an algae scrubber.

 

[LPS Bum]

Thanks, your thoughts on stocking and adding some fish at same time are in line with my thoughts. Guess my biggest concern is nutrients with the bioload. What would you consider robust?

At this time I only have a skimmer. And a tiny fuge which is mainly for pods. I am wanting to add an algae scrubber.

Well that depends on your system. Is this a fish only or will you keep corals? If you're keeping corals, is it a softie/LPS system or are you looking to keep Acros? What does your water change schedule look like?

There are lots of way to export excess nutrients. I'm not a huge ran of refugiums but they can work. Robust to me means a filter roller and a good skimmer. But using filter socks and cleaning them every 2-3 days is also a good method, if you're willing to do that. Changing 10% of the water each week will also keep the waste from the Tangs down quite a bit, but in a large system that gets expensive and time consuming.

I have a 165 gal mixed reef with a fairly high bio load. I have a ReefMat 1200 and a good skimmer. I do a 1 bucket water change every 2 weeks (syphoning water from the sump) and it works great. But I rely on my aggressive filtration to export most of the waste.

 

[Joiningsession]

Thanks for your personal experience. My skimmer is undersized at the moment as it’s what came with the tank (BM curve 7) but will be upgraded later. I actually will be installing an algae scrubber in the next couple weeks and upgrading the skimmer at a later time.

And though not 10% I do have a 10g container on wheels that I planned on doing weekly or so changes with.

 

[Raphael Dalmeida]

Thanks for your personal experience. My skimmer is undersized at the moment as it’s what came with the tank (BM curve 7) but will be upgraded later. I actually will be installing an algae scrubber in the next couple weeks and upgrading the skimmer at a later time.

And though not 10% I do have a 10g container on wheels that I planned on doing weekly or so changes with.

I have a 5 foot CADE peninsula tank heavily stocked similar to what you want. Feeding heavy.

I keep mixed reef with LPS, Softies and Acroporas in it.

Largest part of my nutrient export is my refugium, every weekend I take 3 or 4 handfuls of chaetomorpha. I also supplement iron and manganese on top of All For Reef dosing.

Skimmer is a nyos 220. My nutrients are fairly high still and almost manageable, I will add a roller mat filter and hope that this will help me get across the line.

No water changes, all corals are growing and fish are chunky.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Did you ever decide on a stocking list?

 

[Joiningsession]

Did you ever decide on a stocking list?

Yea, I’ve changed it up slightly since post but so far I have these in the tank:

Kole tang
Yellow tang
Gem tang
Leopard wrasse
Mccoskers wrasse
Pintail wrasse
2x azure damsels
Royal gramma
1 firefish goby

And I have the following in QT:

China wrasse
Linespot flasher wrasse
Exquisite wrasse
And a 2in blonde naso

I think there’s still one or two wrasse I would like to squeeze in there but havnt decided just yet.