Stocking 120 Gallon

[GrizzReacts]

Need some help I have a 120 Gallon and need to know if what I want to stock it with is good and what else I can add. So far I want to add

• Blue Hippo Tang
• 2 Heniochus Butterfly
• Dwarf Angel Fish
• One Spot foxface
• Snowflake Eel

Any other beauties I can add to this?

 

[BryanM]

The blue hippo may very well outgrow this tank, especially if its a 4 footer.

The butterflies: Make sure you are getting Heniochus diphreutes (Schooling Bannerfish) and not Heniochus acuminatus. They look identical, but diphreutes is reef-safe, whereas acuminatus will eat your corals.

As for more ads, I think this is a good start / plenty, until you get used to the bioload (high due to messy eaters), and then work on adding when you can keep parameters in check

 

[GrizzReacts]

The blue hippo may very well outgrow this tank, especially if its a 4 footer.

The butterflies: Make sure you are getting Heniochus diphreutes (Schooling Bannerfish) and not Heniochus acuminatus. They look identical, but diphreutes is reef-safe, whereas acuminatus will eat your corals.

As for more ads, I think this is a good start / plenty, until you get used to the bioload (high due to messy eaters), and then work on adding when you can keep parameters in check

Perfect for this tank I might not do corals but can i switch out the hippo for a powder blue tang?

 

[BryanM]

Perfect for this tank I might not do corals but can i switch out the hippo for a powder blue tang?

IMO powder blues need the same sort of room as the hippo does.

They are also known to be bullies, and easily get ich.

 

[GrizzReacts]

IMO powder blues need the same sort of room as the hippo does.

They are also known to be bullies, and easily get ich.

any tang you'd recommend then or trigger fish?

 

[BryanM]

any tang you'd recommend then or trigger fish?

Yellow or Tomini would be my choices. Both are good utilitarian fish too.

 

[GrizzReacts]

Yellow or Tomini would be my choices. Both are good utilitarian fish too.

Basically none of the pretty ones lol

 

[Michael Hughes]

You might consider a bluethroat trigger, but again high bioload for that one.