Mixing broodstock

[Fishfreak2009]

I have an empty eheim 47 gallon aquarium I will be setting up to house some of my broodstock for a few breeding projects. Currently I have a pair of brown saddleback clownfish (Amphiprion polymnus) and a quad (2m/2f) of red stoplight cardinalfish (Fowleria flammea) waiting for this tank to be set up.

Would a pair of neon dottybacks (Pseudochromis aldabraensis) work with these fish? Also considering adding a lemonpeel angel (Centropyge flavissima) and a yellow headed sleeper goby (Valenciennea strigata) to the tank since I can't put them in my main reef. Anyone see any issues with this stocklist?

 

[Wolf89]

I have mixed a breeding pair of occelaris and a breeding pair of orchid dottybacks with no problem in a 10 gallon if that helps.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I have mixed a breeding pair of occelaris and a breeding pair of orchid dottybacks with no problem in a 10 gallon if that helps.

It does! Just nervous about the neons being more aggressive. My old pair were angels, but were in an 8'x4' 380 gallon, so plenty of space. Although they'll be captive breds, which I'm hoping helps with the aggression.

 

[Wolf89]

It does! Just nervous about the neons being more aggressive. My old pair were angels, but were in an 8'x4' 380 gallon, so plenty of space. Although they'll be captive breds, which I'm hoping helps with the aggression.

I would try to keep it naturalistic. Like the sterile plain tanks I don't think promote good breeding. I had sand, rocks, etc. Had the tiles on one side for clowns, and rocks on the other. Also use PVC with caps small enough so only the dottybacks could get in

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I would try to keep it naturalistic. Like the sterile plain tanks I don't think promote good breeding. I had sand, rocks, etc. Had the tiles on one side for clowns, and rocks on the other. Also use PVC with caps small enough so only the dottybacks could get in

That's the plan. I plan to use most of these tanks as a place to stick extra coral frags, and I may even throw in a purple long tentacle anemone for the saddlebacks. I may try to convince the wife to let me use her 65 gallon for this stock since the saddlebacks are a bigger species of clownfish and she's been talking about moving her fancy goldfish into a stock tank anyways.

Then I can use the 47 gallon for my percularis pair I'm growing out, a future pair of black cap basslets, a future small group of threadfin cardinals, and a future pair of neon or sharknose gobies. Throw a green bubbletip anemone in there to propagate as well. Seems nobody around me sells the greens, only the rose bubbletips or the "super-fancy-name-expensive" bubbletips...

I have a pair of clarkii clowns, a pair of banggai cardinals, a trio of red headed gobies (Elacatinus puncticulatus) and a pair of black line fang blennies in my 75 gallon I'm hoping to breed. We'll see how it goes.