Fish list-please help me cut wisely

[Cornerboy]

Thank you all so much for your help!! I think I'm down to making the Final Cuts before I proceed. Do you see any conflicts with this list. This will be a 55 gal LPS tank with SPONGES and CLAMS with 2 very large open pieces of pukani. 55 gal fuge and will be farming pods, brine, and phytoplankton.

4 carberryi anthias
3 wrasses
Pink streaked
Katoi
Leopard
2 Mandarins. M&F
2 Blennies
Tailspot
Orange spotted
2 Yellowhead Jawfish
2 Firefish
Purple
Helfrichi's
Royal Gramma
1-2 Yasha Gobies (M&F) with
1-2 Candy striped pistol shrimp
2 Peppermint shrimp
2 Scarlett Skunk Cleaners
1 Emerald crab
1 sandsifting Tiger cucumber
1 pink horned cucumber
1 orange leaf sponge
1 red finger sponge
1 blue clam
Trocus and nassarius snails
Urchins

So what conficts do you see?
What would you cut?
Can we be less pink somehow?

Thank you!!!!

 

[Tahoe61]

The tank is too small for this fish, 4 carberryi anthias, they need multiple feedings a day.
Orange spotted should be expert only and feeding requirement are intensive.
Fire fish are going to fight unless you get them very young and a trio is better.
A Royal Gramma may take issue with the Fire Fish, similar body shape and coloration is sometimes a trigger to aggression.
I would pick either the Mandarins ( once tank is established) or the Blennies or the Gobies but not all three types. You have a list with a lot of fish that reside in the lower part or sand bed of the tank, like the Jaw Fish, in a 55 gallon that is going to be an issue.

The total volume of the water works in your favor but the available real estate in the display is an issue.

 

[Cornerboy]

Thanks for your thoughts Tahoe61!!

So Orange spotted is out. If i dont add the tail spot, and maybe not the Katoi wrasse, and added a foxface would that be better or worse? Other algee eaters you would suggest!!

Also if given the option of a firefish trio or the gramma i would go with the trio. Is that a mistake? Im less attached to both of these than the others.

Thanks for your help!!

 

[Rispa]

Have you considered a flame hawkifsh? That could add more movement higher up in the tank. I agree on needing enough real estate lower in the tank A lot of the fish on your list like to burrow. Oh and what about cardinal fish? I've just started reading more about them because there are more varieties than I realized.

Best of luck!

 

[Tahoe61]

@eatbreakfast for assist.

I would go with the Wrasse.

Fox Face are awesome fish but they get too big too fast and they make working in your smaller tanks a nightmare. I steer clear of fish that have the potential to inflict pain in smaller tanks. They are skittish are happier in a larger tank.

I tagged mod eatbreakfast, he is an excellent resource for just this type of question.

 

[Cornerboy]

I think the hawkfish would get my shrimp. I really just dont like the 5-6 cardinals ive seen.

The lots of burrowing is by design, but i have no idea how much is too much. Its a mandarin tank, and i would really like to keep the goby pistol pair and the jawfish. I feel like i need a blenny for algee...

@eatbreakfast for assist.

I would go with the Wrasse.

Fox Face are awesome fish but they get too big too fast and they make working in your smaller tanks a nightmare. I steer clear of fish that have the potential to inflict pain in smaller tanks. They are skittish are happier in a larger tank.

I tagged mod eatbreakfast, he is an excellent resource for just this type of question.

Thanks eatbreakfast helped me figure out the anthia part! Lol

 

[Rispa]

I think the hawkfish would get my shrimp. I really just dont like the 5-6 cardinals ive seen.

The lots of burrowing is by design, but i have no idea how much is too much. Its a mandarin tank, and i would really like to keep the goby pistol pair and the jawfish. I feel like i need a blenny for algee...


Thanks eatbreakfast helped me figure out the anthia part! Lol

Whoops, I did not see the shrimp on your list. Never mind on him.

 

[Cornerboy]

Okay. I'm thinking no orange spot, no firefish, no gramma, one yasha and one jawfish. Maybe that would work...

 

[Cornerboy]

So, the new list would be.


4 carberryi anthias
3 wrasses
Pink streaked
Katoi
Leopard
2 Mandarins. M&F
Tailspot blenny
Yellowhead Jawfish
Yasha Goby with
Candy striped pistol shrimp
2 Peppermint shrimp
2 Scarlett Skunk Cleaners
1 Emerald crab
1 sandsifting Tiger cucumber
1 pink horned cucumber
1 blue clam
Trocus and nassarius snails
Urchins