I posted this elsewhere to, but wanted everyones opinion.

[clown fish heir]

I am getting a 125 g bow front reef tank. I will be adding 1 flame angel, 2 percula clowns, and 1 yellow tang. and on the inverts I will add a chocolate chip star, a CBS, a pep shrimp, 30 blue legged hermits, 5 scarlet legged hermits, 5 feather dusters, and lots of xenia coral. is this a good selection? and am I overstocking?

 

[qwiksilver360]

if thats all your getting you will be fine with that size tank you could even have more

 

[aarone]

dont add a chocolate chip star!
It will eat all of your inhabitants. Geez man go with the post you made in the fish discussion board and get a serpent star.
You sure do change your mind a helluva lot.
The bs might eat the peppermint shrimp also.

 

[clown fish heir]

oh sorry. I that was a typo. I meant brittle star. a friend of mine has a bs and a cbs in the same tank and they are fine.

 

[jb1]

ccs can also nibblke your corals if you have any

 

[dacia]

CC starfish do well in fish only tanks. I have one in my nano FOWLR that doesn't bother my fish or other inverts. For a reef, I would definitely go with a serpent star or a brittlestar.

 

[dburr]

I also would go easy on the blue legs. They will eat you scarlet legs and your snails.

 

[the claw]

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[dburr]

IME scarlets and blue legs are fine together.
You must have very passive blue legs. Consider yourself lucky.

 

[aarone]

btw the chocolate chip starfish thing....was a joke.

 

[the claw]

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[lesleybird]

No, You are not over stocking, but you need to add any stock gradually so that the bacteria keep up with the growth in bioload. Meaning.....Cycle the tank with some dead shrimp or fish food for about three weeks or so then add one fish every two to three weeks to let the biofilter catch up with the bioload. And make sure you cure any live rock before adding any fish.
Good luck and congratulations on the new tank! Lesley

 

[aarone]

sorry wrong post.

 

[tangprincess]

I've seen many times where someone will put a chocolate chip starfish in with a yellow tang, and the tang eats it to bits.....so i dunno......