overstocked?

[rickross23]

My 120 has
Yellow tang
2 clowns
2 bangaii cards
4 chromis
I would like to add these
Black tail anampses wrasse or 4 star leopard wrasse
Red mandarin
2 B&W clowns (ik they may fight)
BJ trigger ( anyone have one? Would this get too big?)
Diamond goby (mine killed itself)
Thanks. I also like drsgonface and banded pipefish.

 

[jerth6932]

Addin more clowns is prob bad move, as the dominant pair will prob kill or completly submiss the other set. Everything else could be ok, but I don't know much at all about triggers....... It might be too aggressive for the bangi's and such.

 

[rickross23]

The clowns are barely over an inch probably 1.5 inches and I don't think they are a pair yet. The clowns I want are black and white ocellaris, the same species. The clowns I want are 1.5 inches also.

 

[rickross23]

Bump.

 

[acrylic51]

You will doom your clowns......1 pair period.......Your tank is to small to even contemplate doing 2 pairs.

 

[rickross23]

Besides the clowns, how is my stock list?

 

[snakeblitz33]

I wouldnt get the clowns or the trigger. Triggers get big and have to have a lot of swimming room. They also can be fairly aggressive to smaller species of fish. Other then that, all is well.

 

[rickross23]

Quote:
Originally Posted by SnakeBlitz33 http:///t/392025/overstocked#post_3479207
I wouldnt get the clowns or the trigger. Triggers get big and have to have a lot of swimming room. They also can be fairly aggressive to smaller species of fish. Other then that, all is well
can i get the dragonface/ banded pipe AND red mandy after a while? or one or the other? thanks guys also.

 

[snakeblitz33]

Pipefish are generally only fit for species only tanks. I would not introduce a pipefish to the tank.
If you can get a significant copepod population for the mandy, then go ahead.

 

[rickross23]

do vermiculated wrasses eat frozen????? i read they eat pods..

 

[snakeblitz33]

If they eat pods, why take the chance of starving one to death?
There are nutrients in copepods that are not present in pellet food, frozen foods or any other pre-made meal. A fish that eats pods has to have a dietnof pods to live long term.

 

[rickross23]

I see. Thanks, snake.

 

[btldreef]

If you're not doing a refugium, I'd do the wrasse OR the mandarin, not both. They would be competing for pods.

 

[rickross23]

I have a refuge.....it just doesn't have chaeto...its FULL of LR and LR rubble.

 

[smallreef]

but do you have a current pod population that you can see? ONCE you can actually see some wait another 3 months and then you can try a mandarin or wrasse that eats pods.. even at that it depends on how fast they populate to keep the fish happy