How's this lineup?

[lopeyc]

I'm setting up a 90g 4' tank. The first resident will be a flame angel I have in a smaller tank. After that here are some of the fish I'm considering to add over time:
yellow tang
fairy wrasse
midas blennie
yellow longnosed butterfly
snowflake eel
bartlett's anthias
Wondering if folks this is too many creatures or if they see incompatibility issues coming up.

 

[lopeyc]

...so much for that thoughtful reply. Very helpful.

 

[chandler04]

Yea skip the eel, but to get the tank going, put in the wrasse, blenny, then anthias, and then in succesion from what he said^. Just make sure you have a lot of rock and substarte to get in going, and a good clean up crew. You might have to wait awhile. The Tang would actually do okay for a while, they are fairl hardy fish, add him in a week or two after the wrasse, blenny. Cleaner crew too. Lawnmower blennies are always cool to look into, they clean yer tank and they have lots of perosnality, except mine is always hiding form me, but thats just mine. Might I suggest a small school of Chromis? You'll have plenty of room in yer tank, and they'll make a great centerpiece. Maybe even a skool of anthias, but they are more expensive. Nah, the crhosmis would be cool, and they would obtain the oos and aas until yer tank is established enough. Im thinking of getting a skool, but I dont have such a large tnak as you, so:

 

[lopeyc]

Thank you, too.

But now I have more questions!
This tank will actually be starting out with a decent amount of live rock, gravel and water seeded from my other established tanks so it will be something between an absolutely raw tank and an established one.
The problem with holding off on the flame angel is that I need to move him from my 36g because a) it's too small for him now and b) the whole tank is going to a school.
How about instead of an eel, I go for CANARY WRASSE? I like those but haven't gotten one before because my other tanks weren't covered -- this one will be covered except for a gap in the back where the refugium hangs. Or would that wrasse fight with the fairy? Maybe a canary (aka golden, bka yellow) wrasse instead of the fairy?
There will be an anemone or two in this tank so I was also considering a PINK SKUNK CLOWN but was worried he'd be too timid for this group at feeding time.
CHROMIs are cute, but do they end up as bullies like other damsels?

 

[alison]

:happyfish I agree to the others input. As for your new question, I really would hold him in the smaller tank then put him into a newly cycled tank. They are a sensative fish, same as butterfly fish. I don't have any advice on wrasses, but the chromis tend to be more peaceful then other damsels. As for anemonies, I would stick with 1 anemonie. They send out toxins to other neiboring anemonies, and need to be at LEAST 1 full foot away from other anemonies. I would suggest a long tentacled anemonie. They tend to be easier than other anemonies. Carpet anemonies are harder on the scale with needing high light, and also harder to aclimate. With any anemonie, you need good reef lighting by the way. Good luck, ali

 

[chandler04]

Actually, Bubble tips are very hardy and are usually hosted by fish. I dont think a flame angel can grow out of a 36 gallon, can it? It SHOULD be fine, cuz they dont need TOO much room, they are just tiny fish, unless this is an exceptionally large dwarf fishy:notsure: . The 2 wrasse might fight. Butterfly is a no go cuz they are not reef safe, and I do believe that angels arent reef safe. Ill have to check on that one. Maybe/ maybe not. Im sorry if i am wrong. Get like a school of anthias, then a wrasse and the angel or tang. That would be cool. Anthias are definitely reef safe. Make sure that all the fish are reef safe b4 u get them.

 

[lopeyc]

My flame is a fat 4' and fast and I thought he'd like a longer tank but I suppose he's fine for now -- I was giving the tank to my son's school, but I guess they can wait.
The flame actually is not a picker in my tank -- leaves everything alone, unlike my coral beauty in another tank who especially molests my fan worms. Apparently with dwarf angels there is a fair amount of variety among individuals within a species on who picks on corals and who doesn't.
Here's what Scott Michael's "Marine Fishes" says about the yellow longnose butterfly:
"In most cases, these fish seem to ignore corals, but they have been reported to feed on stony and soft coral polyps in the wild. Will also eat tubeworms and nip at sea urchin tube feet."
That seems like a marginal risk. Not all the angels and butterflies are the same.
Since I already have a 55g reef, anybody who gets picked on in this new tank can be moved there I suppose. This will be something closer to a FOWLR but with reef quality water and some inverts, soft corals, a rose anemone, etc.