JDCagley
Active Member
Hello, 200 total gallon tank nearing 1 year mark. Was a rough couple of months starting from dry rock with typical algae issues, dinos, etc. All that has passed and paramters have stabalized.
Current fish stock - 1 blue tang (still juvenile, ~2.5-3"), 1 scopas tang (~3-3.5"), 1 coral beauty, 2 bi-color chromis, 4 green chromis (6 originally), 2 engineer goby's (cool @ ~8" each), 2 lyretail anthias, 2 black storm clowns, 1 spotted madarin, 2 springer damsels. (Total count 18 fish)
Assorted CUC including several species of snails, emerald crabs and asst hermits. Coral banded shrimp.
Recently added SPS (2 birdsnest species, multiple acros and some digitatas - and a couple I am not 100% sure what they other than 'sps') that are starting to grow. Assorted softies (zoas, acans, green star, fireworks polyps, etc.) that have been in here for at least 6 months and growing well - the softies mostly all survived my dino outbreak - I did lose 2 smaller goni's.
My question is, would you add any other fish to this tank? I do not want to overstock the tank, but I would definitely like as many as 'possible'! The only fish losses i've encountered from day 1 was 2 green chromis - just 'disappeard' - never found a corpse in tank or on floor, so I am not real sure where they went, but thy are not here. The bold marked fish in list above have been here since the beginning and all others have been in tank at least 5 months.
I ask because my initial 'dream' stock list looks nothing like what I ended up with - for several reasons! 1) - I let my kids all pick a lot of the 'starter' fish above (with nudges from dad). 2) My old tank (pre-divorce) was near and dear to myself and my only (at that time) daughter and she had a very specific list (blue tang, clowns, yellow tang and coral beauty), and 3) what is/was actually available/affordable. So after initial stocking and cycling, I added the clowns tang and coral beauty slowly - but found quickly that yellow tang was just not going to work out and went with scopas tang (which I enjoy, but still miss the yellow). The anthias were a what the heck kind of pick. The spotted mandarin was a 'replacement' to original tank as well. Pre divorce tank was considerably smaller than this one (75g) and was tore down in 2013. Lesson kids - don't get married! Took me 12 years to get 'back' to where I was! (I'm joking about not getting married - that's on you....)
Just want more color/fish if possible and wanted some thoughts on what you all think!
Thanks
Current fish stock - 1 blue tang (still juvenile, ~2.5-3"), 1 scopas tang (~3-3.5"), 1 coral beauty, 2 bi-color chromis, 4 green chromis (6 originally), 2 engineer goby's (cool @ ~8" each), 2 lyretail anthias, 2 black storm clowns, 1 spotted madarin, 2 springer damsels. (Total count 18 fish)
Assorted CUC including several species of snails, emerald crabs and asst hermits. Coral banded shrimp.
Recently added SPS (2 birdsnest species, multiple acros and some digitatas - and a couple I am not 100% sure what they other than 'sps') that are starting to grow. Assorted softies (zoas, acans, green star, fireworks polyps, etc.) that have been in here for at least 6 months and growing well - the softies mostly all survived my dino outbreak - I did lose 2 smaller goni's.
My question is, would you add any other fish to this tank? I do not want to overstock the tank, but I would definitely like as many as 'possible'! The only fish losses i've encountered from day 1 was 2 green chromis - just 'disappeard' - never found a corpse in tank or on floor, so I am not real sure where they went, but thy are not here. The bold marked fish in list above have been here since the beginning and all others have been in tank at least 5 months.
I ask because my initial 'dream' stock list looks nothing like what I ended up with - for several reasons! 1) - I let my kids all pick a lot of the 'starter' fish above (with nudges from dad). 2) My old tank (pre-divorce) was near and dear to myself and my only (at that time) daughter and she had a very specific list (blue tang, clowns, yellow tang and coral beauty), and 3) what is/was actually available/affordable. So after initial stocking and cycling, I added the clowns tang and coral beauty slowly - but found quickly that yellow tang was just not going to work out and went with scopas tang (which I enjoy, but still miss the yellow). The anthias were a what the heck kind of pick. The spotted mandarin was a 'replacement' to original tank as well. Pre divorce tank was considerably smaller than this one (75g) and was tore down in 2013. Lesson kids - don't get married! Took me 12 years to get 'back' to where I was! (I'm joking about not getting married - that's on you....)
Just want more color/fish if possible and wanted some thoughts on what you all think!
Thanks
