new fish

[cocoboy821]

i think i'm fixin to have a stroke! my dad and i have talked bout gettin new fish, and he always tells me few days before he orders so i can ask questions and research a little bit more, but last nite he told me he ordered new fish while he was at work! :scared: and they gonna be here tomorrow!
i'm gonna be completely honest with what he ordered even tho i think it's way to much and i'm prolly be flamed. but our fs will take fish and give us store credit if it is the ONLY choice we have later on.
(please dont hurt me...)
3x six line wrasse (major invasion of flatworms..i asked for one. lol)
1xcourt jester goby
1xblack sailfin blenny
i know his reasoning for the three sixline, he read they can be difficult to get to begin eating and he wanted back wrasse incase one or two die. plus last time we ordered fish online only one survived the shipping

so i guess he was being prepared
questions:
the jester & sailfin will eat alge strips if put at the bottom? (we have plenty of alge, but just incase..)
dad read that wrasse eat live feeder shrimp, how do you keep them alive? and how many should we get (lbs or oz or whatever)?

 

[joojoo]

Can't really decide if this is too many fish without knowing about your tank. The goby and blenny will do fine off of pellets and frozen foods, they will also graze throughout the tank. You can "treat" them every once in a while with a Nori sheet. As for feeder shrimp, they usually sell for about 25 cents apiece.

 

[cocoboy821]

lol here's where i freak out
current residents:
1 yellow tang (3 1/2 inches i believe)
2 clarkii clowns (talkin bout gettin rid of one or both, but its just talk right now)
1 maroon clown (BIG mistake)
1 chromis
1 pajama cardinal
we have a 75 gallons...
would the shrimp pellets be ok? or another kind?

 

[joojoo]

Yikes, well the Tang and Clowns are contributing the most to the bio-load. How long has the tank been established? Adding 5 fish at the same time to a 75 might cause spikes.

 

[joojoo]

Shrimp pellets will be too big for the Goby to eat. The Blenny might eat them on occasion, but they prefer to graze. Try Formula 2 also, it's designed for herbivores, the Tang will love it too.

 

[cocoboy821]

april 21 last year we got our first batch of lr, so just a few days over a year.. if it comes down to trading fish for store credit, it'll prolly be the bigger clarkii clown and the maroon if he starts causing trouble again.
we did a 10% plus three gallon change last nite and it's brought the trites & ammonia up from 0,but those usually go back down to 0 24 hours later, and it's been little over 12 hours now,so i'm gonna check them again tonite.
thanks for answering my questions joojoo! we are trying to get everything settled before the fall since i'm gonna be 2 1/2 hours from home.. i just don't want to be overcrowded and make the fish miserable because they dont have enough room

 

[lesleybird]

My sixline will eat anything...

 

[arkreefer]

I love the Rainford's Gobys. They are cool little fish. I feed my tank Marine Cuisine. It has algae,brine and krill. I have carnys and herbys

 

[jacrmill]

of everything you have to worry about, what the 6 line wrasse will eat is by far the easiest....you could put a mcdonalds hamburger in there and it would eat it. as stated earlier your biggest problem is the introduction of so much at 1 time. Good luck, hope it doesn't end tragically. There is also a product called "biospira" that may help. It is said to cycle your tank for you, I dont really buy that, but I think it may help a little. While I'm sure your tank has cycled, if you put all those fish in there, you might get another cycle. If so I would buy some biospira at the first sight of ammonia and hope for the best. While I was out buying the biospira, i would get some extra salt water for water changes and tylenol for the headache....

 

[cocoboy821]

lol we having burgers for dinner tonite, just might toss one in there for em

we have a mix of shrimp and scallops.. thanks for the help ya'll. and yes i believe we have biospira. and 10 lb bucket of sand, with two HUGE bottles of tylo