Nuvo 30 stocking ideas

[Reefer302]

hi i have a cycled IM nuvo 30 and I have some corals frogspawn,zoas,hammers,stylophora,rbta,montipora, and green toadstools. The tanks been set up for about a year and a half and has a cleaner shrimp and a clean up crew of hermits and snails i plan on getting a mandarin dragonet i have a refugium for it and I have set up copepod cultures beforehand to prep for the mandarin they are producing pods pretty quick and also going to supplement with brine shrimp. I'm wondering what are some good tank mates for a mandarin in a 30g?

 

[92Miata]

We currently have a mandarin in a Nuvo 40 - that is doing really well (6 months or so? has about tripled in size). My suggestion for any mandarins in small tanks like this is that you need to buy captive bred - they'll typically take frozen food - and this greatly reduces the number of pods they need to survive.

Stay away from Six-line wrasses and other small pod eating wrasses.

 

[Reefer302]

I'm thinking probably 2 clowns and A tailspot blenny.

 

[Scubasteve11]

Pink streaked wrasse!

 

[Reefer302]

Do those eat pods

 

[bluesy1213]

Definitely not a Coral Banded Shrimp....they eat pods just incase you weren't aware.