my first reef tank

[Robert bertrand]

I got my first reef tank and it's been up and running for almost 7 months. I have been trying to add a small group of schooling fish and they keep dissapearing. It's a 55 gal tank. I'm running two 950gph power heads a hang on back refugium and a hang on reef octopus skimmer. Current inhabitants are as follows.

Fairy wrasse female 3inches
Mandarin 2.5 inches
Two ocellaris clownish 2 inches
Scopus tang 3 inches
Foxface 4 inches

I know some are not good long term. I will exchange once they get big. I've tried chromic and none ever survived. I'm trying firefish and I started with two and lost one. Then added two more and seems like I am down to only one left. Possibly two. My lfs said my water perameters are fine. and I have a lid on my tank.what could be causing the issue? And I've only found one dead firefish. Clean up crew are not in one local area like they are eating dead fish. Could someone she'd some light on this for me.

 

[Virtualbasil]

Kind of a small tank to keep a tang and foxface in.

 

[Robert bertrand]

Yes I got them small. Oce they reach about half their adult Suze I will exchange for babies and watch them grow

 

[Virtualbasil]

pictures?

 

[Robert bertrand]

 

[Robert bertrand]

I found where they sleep as well as the wrasse. But I can't see under where they dugout under the rock to see if anymore are in there.

 

[Tahoe61]

I have had good luck with trios of Fire Fish, but I order from the LFS, get them young, pick them up before they go into their tanks.

It's really hard to have a grouping of fish in reality, your tank is too small for an Anthis group, you could try some of the Cardinal types.

The may not look fantastic in the images but they make really awesome little groups in the aquarium.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=15+26

 

[Robert bertrand]

But will o run into the same problem. Adding them and start dissapearing. Seems like I need to find out why they keep dissapearing before I start unloading more fish in the tank

 

[baja_minnesota13]

Its a possibility your over stocking the tank. There's a large debate about how many inch of fish per gallon you can have... But I have a 55gal reef as well and have read that it's approx 12in of fish for this size tank. When you add more over time they tend to take up the oxygen and you'll lose fish the bioload can't handle... Im currently adding a 30gal custom built sump to mine so increase my fish volume as well as all the other benefits they bring..