Court Jester Goby’s? Stocking opinions

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My tank is several years old and I’ve pretty much had the same fish in my tank the entire time I have owned it and haven’t had any losses or crashes
Pair of clowns
A Citron lemon Clown Goby
Exquisite Fire fish
And a Six line wrasse
As well as a skunk cleaner and several inverts
The tank is 40 gal I’m looking to add something unique and vibrant to my tank and I’ve stumbled upon court jesters (captive bred from biota) do we think my fire fish would pick on him? I’m open to any other stocking ideas as well. I like to keep my tank very low stock. Would I be overdoing it by adding something small, maybe a neon cleaner even?
 
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Here’s the tank layout
 

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A court jester and gleaner goby would work. Think less amount of fish and more habitat... The clowns and firefish will be more out in the open. Wrasses tend to weave in the rockwork as would the cleaner goby. Court jesters like to hang around the sand mostly. The tank won't look or feel overcrowded because the fish aren't really competing much for space. Look at how dense with fish wild reefs are. The key is diversity!
 

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A Court Jester goby should work although there might be some risk of aggression with the firefish and/or the six line wrasse because they're similar sized and shape fish.

They also eat similar things to the six line. I'm keeping two from Biota in a 29g and neither of them have touched anything I've fed once, but are both visibly fat. I've noticed that whenever the amount of copepods I can see on the glass decreases they get a bit thinner, so I think they should be treated similar to Mandarin Gobies. IMO they're unlikely to eat prepared foods so need a tank with a mature sandbed to survive. They mostly sift through tiny bites of sand, but I've also watched mine eat green hair algae, snail eggs that are laid on the walls, and even red cyano which I was pretty surprised to see.
 

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