New tank, cleaning crew

crooper

Member
I have a 100 gallon tank that's gone through some bad times -- I lost most of my fish through various problems (making a newbie mistake, water and air pumps dying, power outages). I only have one yellow damsel left in the tank. I got new (and better!) pumps for my sump and protein skimmer, and redid all the piping to increase water flow.
I checked the water quality and it has 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 0 nitrates, and ph 8.2, so that's perfect. There's quite a bit of green algae on the porous dead rockwork, and the algae grows on the sides pretty fast too. I want to get a cleaning crew that will help keep it cleaner. I plan to add them first and then start working on getting more fish.
Here are my plans:
Inverts:
Market Leader reef package (~20 turbos, 20 scarlet hermits, 10 nassiarius snails, 2 lettuce nudibranches, 1 coral banded shrimp, 5 emerald crabs, and 1 sally lightfoot)
2 purple urchins
1 chocolate chip starfish
Fish:
2 percula clowns (to satisfy the "NEMO!" thing for my kids)
4-5 assorted damsels
1 lawnmower blenny
and maybe 1 purple dottyback
Is there a good order in which to add the inverts and fish? Does my line-up look good? How long does it typically take for a new piece of live rock to spread the joy to dead rockwork?
Thanks!
 

jhebi

Member
Good way to start
.....I would add the inverts and than the fishes.....If it was me, I would skip the damsels and add some other fishes, later on they get agressive and territorial when you add other fishes....
 
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