I have a 10 month old 30 gallon reef with 30lbs of lr, a colony of ricordea, zoa frag, leather coral, 6 ceriths, 3 turbos, 10 various hermits, and an astrea and I'm going to add a skunk cleaner and some more LPS corals and cuc. As for fish I have just added 2 black ocellaris clowns over the span of 2 weeks, I would like to add a cherub angle as the last fish. Would this combination work out?
30 gallon fish stocking
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ReefAddict007
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It may be a little over stocked if you had in the angel as well. The Cherub Angel really needs 55+ gallons and can get aggressive at times especially in a small tank. They have also been known to pick at certain types of corals as well.
I kept a cherub angel in a 29g for years and he was one on my favorite fish, I had ricordeas and mostly lps corals and he never bothered any of them as I could tell. I had a tanakas possum wrasse and a pacific candy basslet with him, which are both rather passive and he didn't bothered them. The king of the tank was a blue assessor, the cherub crushed through the rocks and was very active. I had alot of swim through spaces and he seemed to be happy.
eatbreakfast
Fish Nerd
I think a cherub will be fine in a 30, they are a smaller dwarf angel species. Stocking seems fine to me.
