20 gallon stocking

[cruxNC]

I started a 10 gallon nano in November, it has been doing well. It is my first salt water tank and I have had some learning experiences a long the way and killed 2-3 small pieces of coral, but overall it has been going good. This past weekend, the tank spring a leak. We caught it quick and I upgraded to a new 20 gallon (long). Everything has gone well with the transfer and the tank is stable. With twice the room, I just up my stocking a bit. I am going to wait another week or two to make sure it is still rock stable, but I want to add my first goni.

I currently have A purple firefish, a yellow watchman goby/pistol shrimp pair, a Banggai, and a spot tailed blenny. I also have a skunk cleaner and red fire shrimp. Some snails and a very tiny hermit (somewhere).

I have a VERY happy frogspawn and mushroom, a wall euphyllia, a NY knicks torch, a pipeorgan, three hammers, a small zoa garden (they have been moody *******), a small Monti finger frag, a blue duncan, and a small GPS frag on the back wall. A pretty happy acan and a slowing lying favia.

What should I add? I was thinking a possum wrasse, but I can not find one. I was also thinking an ananome and clown pair.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I started a 10 gallon nano in November, it has been doing well. It is my first salt water tank and I have had some learning experiences a long the way and killed 2-3 small pieces of coral, but overall it has been going good. This past weekend, the tank spring a leak. We caught it quick and I upgraded to a new 20 gallon (long). Everything has gone well with the transfer and the tank is stable. With twice the room, I just up my stocking a bit. I am going to wait another week or two to make sure it is still rock stable, but I want to add my first goni.

I currently have A purple firefish, a yellow watchman goby/pistol shrimp pair, a Banggai, and a spot tailed blenny. I also have a skunk cleaner and red fire shrimp. Some snails and a very tiny hermit (somewhere).

I have a VERY happy frogspawn and mushroom, a wall euphyllia, a NY knicks torch, a pipeorgan, three hammers, a small zoa garden (they have been moody *******), a small Monti finger frag, a blue duncan, and a small GPS frag on the back wall. A pretty happy acan and a slowing lying favia.

What should I add? I was thinking a possum wrasse, but I can not find one. I was also thinking an ananome and clown pair.

Clowns aren’t a bad idea. Luckily you wouldn’t be adding them first which eliminates potential territorial issues.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

IMO 4 fish in a 20 gallon with basically no rock is a full tank. I think it would be a risk to add more, I would add more rock first if you really want more fish. my opinion

 

[Mentalones]

IMO 4 fish in a 20 gallon with basically no rock is a full tank. I think it would be a risk to add more, I would add more rock first if you really want more fish. my opinion

I agree. I have a 15g with 4 fish, many soft corals, 1 LPS, and some inverts, and that's pushing it. At the advice of my LFS, I started it with prepackaged painted dry rock. I'll never do that again. I can't tell if I have Coraline algae growing on anything other than the added frags.