Evo 13.5 stocking

[Glowstix]

Can I keep a tiger pistol shrimp yellow watchman goby pair and a talbot damsel pair in this fluval evo 13.5. Some say that it isn’t big enough due to aggression but there are multiple hiding spots and caves. Have a sicce syncra silent 0.5 pump and am 3d printing 2 flow accelerator rfg nozzles. Am hoping to use the smaller island for a zoa garden with a anacropora and have discosoma, hammer, serials hystrix and montipora spongeides, palawanensis if I have space and hopefully white malu nem.
Also have 2 turbo snails and am hoping to get ai blade light.

 

[gkprevite]

That seems like a reasonable stocking plan

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

IMO putting 2 damsels in a 13 gallon (really 10-11 gallon when you account for rock and sand displacement) is very risky. There's a chance you might end up with only one fish in your tank.

 

[gkprevite]

IMO putting 2 damsels in a 13 gallon (really 10-11 gallon when you account for rock and sand displacement) is very risky. There's a chance you might end up with only one fish in your tank.

I didn’t notice he mentioned a pair. That is risky. Pretty likely to wind up with 1. Starting with 1 would be best

 

[EastonsReef]

Make sure your rocks aren't sitting on top of the sand bed and are instead sitting on the actual bottom of the tank, especially with a pistol shrimp. They're going to be digging the sand out from underneath them and it can crush the shrimp, the goby, or even fall and crack the tank.

I have had this same tank running ~4 months so if you have questions specifically for it I'm glad to help.