What order do I add fish into my tank and is this a good stocking list?

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Display - 475 gallon 12 feet long, Sump- 100 gallon diy barrel sump
  • Narrow lined puffer or immaculate puffer
  • Racoon or auriga butterfly
  • Yellowfin or Ringtail surgeonfish
  • golden or big eye trevally
  • 5 mono argent
  • 5 sergeant majors
  • Common Bluestripe Snapper
 

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Dude post a pic of that beast.
why the 5 Sargent majors & 5 mono argent?
with a tank that big i would add and emp. and queen angel. and other color wrasses.
but its not my tank...LOL

you got some great advise above, so nothing to add excpet we needs pics :)
 
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Dude post a pic of that beast.
why the 5 Sargent majors & 5 mono argent?
with a tank that big i would add and emp. and queen angel. and other color wrasses.
but its not my tank...LOL

you got some great advise above, so nothing to add excpet we needs pics :)
Im trying to build a mangrove estuary biotope, so there arent so many colourful fish, more silvery and yellow fish
 

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Display - 475 gallon 12 feet long, Sump- 100 gallon diy barrel sump
  • Narrow lined puffer or immaculate puffer
  • Racoon or auriga butterfly
  • Yellowfin or Ringtail surgeonfish
  • golden or big eye trevally
  • 5 mono argent
  • 5 sergeant majors
  • Common Bluestripe Snapper
  • Sargeant majors will get to at least 5" and nasty

  • Narrow lined puffer or immaculate puffer - 7
  • Racoon or auriga butterfly - 1
  • Yellowfin or Ringtail surgeonfish -2
  • golden or big eye trevally -5
  • 5 mono argent -3
  • 5 sergeant majors - 6
  • Common Bluestripe Snapper - 4
 
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  • Sargeant majors will get to at least 5" and nasty

  • Narrow lined puffer or immaculate puffer - 7
  • Racoon or auriga butterfly - 1
  • Yellowfin or Ringtail surgeonfish -2
  • golden or big eye trevally -5
  • 5 mono argent -3
  • 5 sergeant majors - 6
  • Common Bluestripe Snapper - 4
Should I swap the sergeant majors and the trevally for something else? I only can feed fresh/frozen once a day in the morning and am planning to have 2 other feedings during the day with dry pellets. I can feed like mysis, shrimp and nori in the morning and have a mix of carnivore and algae pellets going off twice a day. Im sort of puzzled about what size pellet to use because I know it has to be like a certain size compared to the fishes mouth but im not sure still
 

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Should I swap the sergeant majors and the trevally for something else? I only can feed fresh/frozen once a day in the morning and am planning to have 2 other feedings during the day with dry pellets. I can feed like mysis, shrimp and nori in the morning and have a mix of carnivore and algae pellets going off twice a day. Im sort of puzzled about what size pellet to use because I know it has to be like a certain size compared to the fishes mouth but im not sure still
If you can get healthy chromis,,,, theyre good but better are anthias such as Lyretail. Im going in order of aggression and potential size range
 
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If you can get healthy chromis,,,, theyre good but better are anthias such as Lyretail. Im going in order of aggression and potential size range
Im trying do build a more sort of biotope tank with more silver, yellow, grey and black fish so I think the anthias would stick out too much and wouldnt the snapper/trevally eat the chromis eventually?
 

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Kind of an aside, but you've asked enough legit seeming questions that I fully believe you're making this, and it's a very interesting concept. I think a ton of us would love to follow a build thread for a tank like this.
 
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Kind of an aside, but you've asked enough legit seeming questions that I fully believe you're making this, and it's a very interesting concept. I think a ton of us would love to follow a build thread for a tank like this.
Yup its still a while away, maybe 6 months but when everything is bought I will start a build thread, im building it out of plywood so hopefully it works, ive talked to some boat making guys and they are helping me a little bit with some of the sealing and those sort of things. Just gotta spent $2000 now
 

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