UNS R150 Stocking

[ReefTanker91]

Hello,

I’ll be upgrading my 3ft tank to a 5ft tank shortly and wanted everyone’s thoughts on what to stock.

Currently in my 3ft I am running a media reactor with gfo/carbon, along with a fleece roller, and skimmer. In the 5 ft I’ll have the added benefit of a refugium. I have a ton of live rock in the 3ft, scapes HNS and will be adding some dry Marco rock for more places for the fish to hide/sleep in the 5ft. I use a avast marine plank and feed a mix of different foods 9 times a day. I sometimes also feed frozen with selcon throughout the week.

Current stock list is below along with many different snails and urchin.

• 1 Lo Foxface*
• 3 Leopard Wrasse
• 2 Canary Wrasse
• 1 Royal gramma
• Pair ocellaris
• 1 Banggai cardinalfish
• 1 Lawnmower Blenny
• 1 Randals goby

For the 5 foot I want to eventually introduce mandarins so I will be rehousing all of the wrasse during the switch as they do eat all of the pods I dose.

Below is what I will have stocked. Planning to introduce the new fish all at once and make sure they are on the smaller size.

• 1 Lo Foxface
• 1 Royal gramma
• Pair ocellaris
• 1 Banggai cardinalfish
• 1 Lawnmower Blenny
• 1 Randals goby
• 1 Copperband Butterfly
• 1 firefish
• 1 flame angel
• 1 blue hippo
• 1 purple tang
• 1 yellow tang
• 1 Whitetail Bristletooth Tang

Eventually a pair of mandarins.

Any thoughts/experience would be helpful in my decision.

Thank you

 

[fishywishy]

That list looks pretty good, but it would be good to know the exact size of the tank so I can be 100% sure. For example depending on the tank size, that tank might be to small for a hippo and too small for that many tangs. Also three leopard wrasse might not get along with each other. Other than that everything looks fine.

 

[ReefTanker91]

The tank is 60x24x24 120g Display and 30 gallon sump.

The three leopard wrasse get along fine in my current tank but I won’t be moving any wrasse over so I can be sure to have enough pods for mandarin fish.

 

[fishywishy]

The tank is 60x24x24 120g Display and 30 gallon sump.

The three leopard wrasse get along fine in my current tank but I won’t be moving any wrasse over so I can be sure to have enough pods for mandarin fish.

That’s a little small for a hippo. But everything else is fine.

 

[ReefTanker91]

Understood, is it possible to rehome when the size gets larger?

 

[fishywishy]

Understood, is it possible to rehome when the size gets larger?

You can do that, But you would have too many tangs for that size tank if you got one.