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[kintle]

Starting a 75 gal cube build and was looking at a stocking list. Wanted to have a square tail bristle tooth tang as my centerpiece fish but figured I'd double check here before basing a stock list around it.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Starting a 75 gal cube build and was looking at a stocking list. Wanted to have a square tail bristle tooth tang as my centerpiece fish but figured I'd double check here before basing a stock list around it.

I think that would be ok. That's a small tang. I think it'll do well depending on the stock list for the rest of the fish.

 

[kintle]

I think that would be ok. That's a small tang. I think it'll do well depending on the stock list for the rest of the fish.

Ty I'll put a stock list together this week and post for thoughts.

 

[kintle]

Ok 75 gal cube, will be sps dom. This is an upgrade from a 28 gal cube I have now. The fish I will be transferring over are a pair of clowns (black and orange storm) and a clown face goby. I plan on useing a fake sps insert for now to let my clown face gobey have his safe space till tank is mature enough to introduce some acros. The fish I would like to add are
Square tail bristle tooth
Randall's assessor basslet (if I can find one)
Red velvet fairy wrase
I would also like to add a pink bared gobey but think that may be over stocking. Open to input this is my biggest tank so far. Also open to stocking order suggestions.

 

[Brew12]

I currently have a large Starry Blenny. I'm thinking about adding a Diamond Watchman Goby. Are they too close to the same body shape or should they be ok together?

 

[Gareth elliott]

I currently have a large Starry Blenny. I'm thinking about adding a Diamond Watchman Goby. Are they too close to the same body shape or should they be ok together?

They inhabit different areas, the watchman goby the sand and the blenny the rocks. More importantly have different appetites, as long as its not small or borderline line tank should limit the aggression issues.

Is a blenny so there could be the odd outlier that decides to be more boisterous.

 

[Brew12]

They inhabit different areas, the watchman goby the sand and the blenny the rocks. More importantly have different appetites, as long as its not small or borderline line tank should limit the aggression issues.

Is a blenny so there could be the odd outlier that decides to be more boisterous.

Thanks, I was hoping that was the case!

 

[Gareth elliott]

Ok 75 gal cube, will be sps dom. This is an upgrade from a 28 gal cube I have now. The fish I will be transferring over are a pair of clowns (black and orange storm) and a clown face goby. I plan on useing a fake sps insert for now to let my clown face gobey have his safe space till tank is mature enough to introduce some acros. The fish I would like to add are
Square tail bristle tooth
Randall's assessor basslet (if I can find one)
Red velvet fairy wrase
I would also like to add a pink bared gobey but think that may be over stocking. Open to input this is my biggest tank so far. Also open to stocking order suggestions.

If you are doing qt would do 2 groups.

The goby, assessor and fairy wrasse group 1. Added first.

Group 2 the clown pair and tang added last.

 

[mta_morrow]

They inhabit different areas, the watchman goby the sand and the blenny the rocks. More importantly have different appetites, as long as its not small or borderline line tank should limit the aggression issues.

Is a blenny so there could be the odd outlier that decides to be more boisterous.

Agree 100%.

 

[Michael Gray]

With a exquisite fairy wrasse, red velvet fairy wrasse and a carpenter flasher wrasse be ok in a waterbox 130.4?

I'm looking for active swimmers that dont bury themselves and are pretty peaceful for a reef.

 

[Gareth elliott]

With a exquisite fairy wrasse, red velvet fairy wrasse and a carpenter flasher wrasse be ok in a waterbox 130.4?

I'm looking for active swimmers that dont bury themselves and are pretty peaceful for a reef.

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This should help, i believe a carpenter’s wrasse normally refers to a flasher wrasse.

 

[Michael Gray]

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This should help, i believe a carpenter’s wrasse normally refers to a flasher wrasse.

So they technically could all be together according to that little diagram. They arent in same group in that. If I understand it right.

The girl wants a leopard. But in worried they are hard to keep

 

[Craigb350]

Hi

Current stocklist is as follows

2 Tangs - Yellow and Purple
6 Wrasse - M&F Yellowtail tamarind, Pair of Black tail tamarind, Male Peacock wrasse and Potters wrasse
1 Goby - Pink spotted goby.

Tank is 100 Gallon 4 x 2 x 2

Mainly SPS, with Clams and inverts

Can I add a Pair of Watanabei Angels without too much drama?

 

[Gareth elliott]

So they technically could all be together according to that little diagram. They arent in same group in that. If I understand it right.

The girl wants a leopard. But in worried they are hard to keep

They are difficult to acclimate, also hard to keep fed in newer systems. Microfauna eaters like these wait 1 or 2 years after you setup the tank and gauge if your system has matured to enough by eye at that time to try one of the easier species.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Hi

Current stocklist is as follows

2 Tangs - Yellow and Purple
6 Wrasse - M&F Yellowtail tamarind, Pair of Black tail tamarind, Male Peacock wrasse and Potters wrasse
1 Goby - Pink spotted goby.

Tank is 100 Gallon 4 x 2 x 2

Mainly SPS, with Clams and inverts

Can I add a Pair of Watanabei Angels without too much drama?

I would not add them given the foot print and the aggressiveness of purple tangs.

 

[DWPhilli]

I have a RSR 250 (54 gal DT, 35"x20"x21"), it has been cycled for a few months now. Sand bed is ~1" Reef Flakes. Rock work has a few large overhangs, and caves.

Current livestock - 2X Clowns and a Lawmower blenny. Also, some softie & LPS frags and CUC

Future plans (in order of adding):
1. Bangai Cardinal
2. Royal Gramma - probably will QT & add with the cardinal
3. Diamond Goby - Do I need a deeper sandbed, and are the reef flakes too big?
4. Reef safe flasher wrasse - not sure yet which one.
5. Starki Damsel
6. Green Mandarin (awhile down the road)

In general, will all those play well together?

Is that over stocking?

I chose those fish as I wanted to get a wide spread of color and also have fish in all levels of the tank. Is there something I am missing?

 

[Gareth elliott]

I have a RSR 250 (54 gal DT, 35"x20"x21"), it has been cycled for a few months now. Sand bed is ~1" Reef Flakes. Rock work has a few large overhangs, and caves.

Current livestock - 2X Clowns and a Lawmower blenny. Also, some softie & LPS frags and CUC

Future plans (in order of adding):
1. Bangai Cardinal
2. Royal Gramma - probably will QT & add with the cardinal
3. Diamond Goby - Do I need a deeper sandbed, and are the reef flakes too big?
4. Reef safe flasher wrasse - not sure yet which one.
5. Starki Damsel
6. Green Mandarin (awhile down the road)

In general, will all those play well together?

Is that over stocking?

I chose those fish as I wanted to get a wide spread of color and also have fish in all levels of the tank. Is there something I am missing?

Thats a lot of fish for a 50 gallon. I would narrow the list down to 2 additional must haves and 1 optional down the road if the tank remains peaceful and bio filter holds.

 

[Michael Gray]

Can

Cirrhilabrus solorensis
Cirrhilabrus rubrimarginatus
Cirrhilabrus exquisitus
Paracheilinus carpenteri

Be QT together and live together in a 100gallon display? Peacefully?

 

[DWPhilli]

Thats a lot of fish for a 50 gallon. I would narrow the list down to 2 additional must haves and 1 optional down the road if the tank remains peaceful and bio filter holds.

That is understandable. So I am thinking:

1. Bangai Cardinal - not a fan, but wife loves them
2. Lineatus Fairy Wrasse
3. Starki Damsel

Should I introduce in that order, or could I do the Starki before the Lineatus? I can not find either available right now, so I am thinking I would just have to jump on whichever becomes available first and wait several months for the other.

 

[Gareth elliott]

That is understandable. So I am thinking:

1. Bangai Cardinal - not a fan, but wife loves them
2. Lineatus Fairy Wrasse
3. Starki Damsel

Should I introduce in that order, or could I do the Starki before the Lineatus? I can not find either available right now, so I am thinking I would just have to jump on whichever becomes available first and wait several months for the other.

Ok so few words of caution on that list.

The starki there may be aggression issues
With your existing clown. They are both in the damsel family. While are a more peaceful damsel to other fish just not conspecifics.

And the lineatus is overly active for a 3 foot tank. Look at fairy wrasses around 3” like C. isosceles.