Wife approved the tank upgrade

[SilverGryphon]

Wife gave me the go ahead to pick up a used 120g my LFS has up for sale. Currently I'm running a 40B mixed LPS/Softies reef with the following fish:

2x Long fin Ocellaris Clowns
1x Purple Firefish (had a pair, one carpet surfed)
1x Royal Gamma
1x Green Chromis
1x Blue Damsel
1x Orange spotted Watchman Goby
1x Bangaii Cardinal
1x Mandarin Dragonet
1x Fire Shrimp
2x Peppermint Shrimp

So what do you all think would be good additions fish wise for adding to the new tank once it is up and going. I'm planning on setting up and cycling it before transferring everything over to the 120. Which fish can I get away with adding more of (not the chromis).

Thoughts?

 

[tzabor10]

Foxface can be nice to eat macro algae. But for less show and greater utility a white tail bristle tooth tang is a better option.

 

[SilverGryphon]

Pretty fish, but expensive! Definitely keep this one in mind.


Anyone else?

 

[royaleFork]

Foxface can be nice to eat macro algae. But for less show and greater utility a white tail bristle tooth tang is a better option.

 

[Mike1970]

 

[kevgib67]

There a lot of beautiful wrasses, fairy, flasher etc. anthias, dwarf angels, CBB, a few tangs, yellow, tomini, scopus, kole.

 

[SilverGryphon]

Think I'd be ok with introducing another Bangaii or Royal Gamma? I'm also thinking of trying to get a second purple firefish, and introducing it same time I move the other over from the 40.

 

[DarkReefer]

Congrats on the new incoming tank!
Foxfaces are a nice fish for sure and relatively cheap, they'll eat bubble algae and a bunch of other stuff... mine has unfortunately got a taste for corals so likes to eat any zoas I put in the tank along with any LPS.

Maybe wait to see how your current fish settle in and then buy utility type fish to combat whatever issues you may end up with?
Maybe the foxface will help with some stuff, maybe a filefish could and so on?
Cleaner wrasse are also great additions and will help keep it's tank mates pest free.
If you wanted another type of tang, maybe a tomini will get the job done for cheaper than a white tale ?
If you go the tang route, I'd recommend trying to add any that you may want at once, just to help with the aggression side of things. People supposedly have more success when adding multiple at once (I haven't done it this way so can't comment).

 

[SilverGryphon]

Congrats on the new incoming tank!
Foxfaces are a nice fish for sure and relatively cheap, they'll eat bubble algae and a bunch of other stuff... mine has unfortunately got a taste for corals so likes to eat any zoas I put in the tank along with any LPS.

Maybe wait to see how your current fish settle in and then buy utility type fish to combat whatever issues you may end up with?
Maybe the foxface will help with some stuff, maybe a filefish could and so on?
Cleaner wrasse are also great additions and will help keep it's tank mates pest free.
If you wanted another type of tang, maybe a tomini will get the job done for cheaper than a white tale ?
If you go the tang route, I'd recommend trying to add any that you may want at once, just to help with the aggression side of things. People supposedly have more success when adding multiple at once (I haven't done it this way so can't comment).

After looking at the cleaner wrasse I'm adding it to the list of potentials for sure. We're also considering a carpenter's Flasher Wrasse or a ruby longfin fairy wrasse as well, any conflicts there?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Congrats on the new tank!

 

[DarkReefer]

Congrats on the new incoming tank!
Foxfaces are a nice fish for sure and relatively cheap, they'll eat bubble algae and a bunch of other stuff... mine has unfortunately got a taste for corals so likes to eat any zoas I put in the tank along with any LPS.

Maybe wait to see how your current fish settle in and then buy utility type fish to combat whatever issues you may end up with?
Maybe the foxface will help with some stuff, maybe a filefish could and so on?
Cleaner wrasse are also great additions and will help keep it's tank mates pest free.
If you wanted another type of tang, maybe a tomini will get the job done for cheaper than a white tale ?
If you go the tang route, I'd recommend trying to add any that you may want at once, just to help with the aggression side of things. People supposedly have more success when adding multiple at once (I haven't done it this way so can't comment).

After looking at the cleaner wrasse I'm adding it to the list of potentials for sure. We're also considering a carpenter's Flasher Wrasse or a ruby longfin fairy wrasse as well, any conflicts there?

Couldn't tell you I'm afraid, there is a wrasse compatibility chart around this place somewhere though. See if you can dig that up and that should help you decide.
Glad you like the cleaner wrasse though, pretty sure they get along with most if not all.

 

[Austinsdepenbrock]

A couple tangs for sure

 

[CrewePD210]

my Tomini Tang goes to work on the algae in my 150

 

[SilverGryphon]

Well, just got the tank Saturday into the house. Did what plumbing I could, waiting on new loc-line, tubing, and drain hoses. Thursday my fed ex driver is going to hate me, 70lbs of rock and 90 of sand arriving.

 

[Sean Clark]

One of my favorite guilty pleasures in the hobby is getting a verbal comment from the delivery driver.