fish suggestion

[coweyes298]

100 gallon mix reef 48" x 24" x 20" with 25~30 gallon sump with refugium.

Currently stocking fish in DT:

4" Blue Hippo Tang
4" Powder Blue Tang
4.5" Formosa Wrasse Juvi (in transitioning to adult now)
4.5" Midas Blenny
pair of snowflake clown
Flame Hawk fish

I also have 4 Randall's Anthias, 4 Dispar Anthias in QT system. After treating for parasite they will all go to DT as well.

I am thinking adding the final fish to my stocking. Which I believe after adding this final one my tank would be close to maximum bio load.

My PBT is not aggressive to other fish even no aggression to my Blue Tang. But it is hard to say after adding another small size tang in the future. Also my Midas blenny is also on the shy side. He is an open water swimmer but if something happened he will dig into on of the cave near the front bottom side of rock.

I was thinking about some detritus eating fish like some of small size bristletooth tang / starry blenny or similar. Could someone suggest the final fish that I can add?

 

[Big G]

How about a sand sifting goby? Nice for turning over the sand and helping with the tank maintenance: gold head goby, diamond, etc.

 

[coweyes298]

Love your avatar @Big G . I always have bad luck with Gobby. Before I didn't have a QT routine and I lost two gobby. One hiding in the rock for a month and later on jumped out ( I didn't have a cover back then.) Another one disappeared after introducing to tank. Four months later found it inside the internal overflow box...in this four months period I have never seen him one bit.

I really want to add the last fish as a fish that you can easily see him. Gobby...i don't know. They are more like adding and disappeared for me.

 

[Big G]

Do you have a nice population of copepods? - - - - mandarin . . . .

 

[coweyes298]

I probably have some pod population. Not decent, but may be adequate. Though the reason I never think of Mandy is my QT routine usually is TTM & prazi+ 30 plus day of observation in sterilized tank. Or coppersafe & prazi + 30 plus observation. My DT has been trough 2 rounds of 76 days fallow and now the current resident is 100% parasite free. I don't see the Mandy would survive under my QT protocol. Nor don't want to take the risk to add new acquire Mandy directly into DT although everyone said Mandy is parasite free.

 

[Big G]

I agree completely. But it was a nice thought. They are so beautiful. How about a dwarf lion?

 

[coweyes298]

Never think of lion... Let me do a research. Well...venomous spike?

 

[Reefraft]

I've always had a soft spot for yellow tangs. Just sayin

 

[coweyes298]

Heard that yellow tang is mean..And I afraid yellow will have bad orgy with my blue hippo and powder blue...
I'm thinking of tomini, square tail or kole tang. Stays small and is on the mild side spectrum.

 

[Reefraft]

I like the kole tangs. The yellow tang I had wasn't mean but I didn't have him long before I gave him to a buddy with a large tank.

 

[Bluecbs]

You really should check on the blennies, huge personalities. With that tank size, go for bigger ones like starry and orange spot

 

[coweyes298]

Already got a midas. And I love blenny too. Was looking blenny for a while but don't know the compatibility.

 

[ShaunRobinson]

Yellow or purple tang or big longnose butterfly. If a yellow tang aggression is a worry, because it's going in last any aggression is likely to be the other way round until they settle.

 

[coweyes298]

Blenny would be my best choice. Any one have experience of midas blenny with other algae eating Blenny (Starry, Orange spot etc)?

Had a black sailfin blenny with midas before, but the sailfin was super mean toward others... Got rid of sailfin eventually.

 

[Bluecbs]

Yeah as you said midas is open water swimmer, starry and orangespot more like a rock skipper.... But you also have tangs, also can be aggressive to algae eating blennies. If unsure, can always use a SAB

 

[eatbreakfast]

I would recommend against adding a 3rd tang to a 100g tang. It's just not big enough for their interactions.

The suggestions of starry or orange spot blennies are good.

Flasher or fairy wrasses, or a small Halichoeres species of wrasse would be nice.