My current tank is a 300g deep dimension acrylic clone: 72"L x 36"w x 27"h. It's an upgrade from previous systems and has been running for about 5 years. To say it's lightly stocked is an understatement.
It has the following fish:
B/W ocellaris - about 12yrs old. Its mate died a couple year ago.
magnificent foxface - 4 year old
Sleeper banded goby - 4 year old
Royal Gramma - 5 year old
I have an Reef octopus 5000 ext skimmer.
To make a long story short - I spent the first 2 years planning the fish I wanted then I had an algae outbreak a few years ago and went super aggressive ULN. Held off stocking. This presumably caused a terrible dino outbreak and killed all my SPS and snails. I didn't want to use any bottled magic to get rid of the dinos because I was afraid of losing my fish. I gave up finally and installed a 2nd UV and used DinoX. It's now back under control. So I'm ready to start my long delayed stocking...
Currently have LPS and softies. Will be adding SPS back and a few clams.
Rockwork has tons of hiding spots and lots of room for swimming.
Here is my potential list. I know it's kind of a heavy bioload at 33 fish. Could easily ditch the PJ cardinals.
I also understand that Angels are risky in a reef, so would love to know how truly risky. I'm ok with nips here and there but don't want anything that will decimate my corals. I've had potters angels in the past and they seemed fine. I've never owned full size angels, only dive with them.
I've also never owned Tangs and kinda swore them off due to being ich magnets. But I'm going to use Quarantined Fish so hopefully he kills any carrying ich. (And my tank has ich I'm sure already)
So what are you thoughts on the angels? tangs? Wrasses? And overall list for getting along? Any other gems you think I should consider?
I'd add the wrasses/misc first. Then the tangs (all at once). Then the angels. (All at once). Is that right?
Thanks!
Edit: strike through have been eliminated since original post. Italics have been added.
wrasses
carpenter flasher
mcCoskers flasher
ruby head fairy
red head solon fairy
lubbocks fairy
flame fairy
bluehead fairy
yellow flanked fairy
scott's fairy
labout's fairy
exquisite fairy
Pink Margin Fairy
Pintail Splendid Fairy
lineatus fairy
Tangs
yellow
PBT
purple
chevron
Blue-eye
Squaretail
Angels
flame
coral beauty
emperor
gold flake
Wantanabei
Bellus
Misc
pajama cardinal x 5 (easily cut from list)
Court Jester Goby
Yellow Watchman Goby
Hector's Goby
Purple fire fish
blue mandarin
randalls assessor
It has the following fish:
B/W ocellaris - about 12yrs old. Its mate died a couple year ago.
magnificent foxface - 4 year old
Sleeper banded goby - 4 year old
Royal Gramma - 5 year old
I have an Reef octopus 5000 ext skimmer.
To make a long story short - I spent the first 2 years planning the fish I wanted then I had an algae outbreak a few years ago and went super aggressive ULN. Held off stocking. This presumably caused a terrible dino outbreak and killed all my SPS and snails. I didn't want to use any bottled magic to get rid of the dinos because I was afraid of losing my fish. I gave up finally and installed a 2nd UV and used DinoX. It's now back under control. So I'm ready to start my long delayed stocking...
Currently have LPS and softies. Will be adding SPS back and a few clams.
Rockwork has tons of hiding spots and lots of room for swimming.
Here is my potential list. I know it's kind of a heavy bioload at 33 fish. Could easily ditch the PJ cardinals.
I also understand that Angels are risky in a reef, so would love to know how truly risky. I'm ok with nips here and there but don't want anything that will decimate my corals. I've had potters angels in the past and they seemed fine. I've never owned full size angels, only dive with them.
I've also never owned Tangs and kinda swore them off due to being ich magnets. But I'm going to use Quarantined Fish so hopefully he kills any carrying ich. (And my tank has ich I'm sure already)
So what are you thoughts on the angels? tangs? Wrasses? And overall list for getting along? Any other gems you think I should consider?
I'd add the wrasses/misc first. Then the tangs (all at once). Then the angels. (All at once). Is that right?
Thanks!
Edit: strike through have been eliminated since original post. Italics have been added.
wrasses
carpenter flasher
mcCoskers flasher
red head solon fairy
lubbocks fairy
bluehead fairy
yellow flanked fairy
scott's fairy
labout's fairy
exquisite fairy
Pink Margin Fairy
Pintail Splendid Fairy
lineatus fairy
Tangs
yellow
purple
Blue-eye
Squaretail
Angels
coral beauty
gold flake
Wantanabei
Bellus
Misc
Court Jester Goby
Yellow Watchman Goby
Hector's Goby
Purple fire fish
blue mandarin
randalls assessor
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