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Kalinina · Dec 24, 2022

Looking to add more fish to my current fish only. No inverts or coral/anemones. It’s an 84x24x31. It currently houses:
Yellow tang
Sailfin tang
Scopas tang
2 hippo tangs
Powder blue
Achilles
Naso lituratus
Gold spot rabbitfish
3 azure damsels
Emperor angelfish
Flagfin angelfish
1 clownfish
Midas blenny

Sounds like a lot, but the tank looks “empty” without coral or an abundance of rocks. I did order 1 male and 5 female lyretail anthias to create more movement in the middle of the tank. I’ll also put in a few more pieces of rock so they have homes.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I would like chromis, however I would hate for them to pick each other off and only end up with one. Maybe a handful of springeri damsels and a royal gramma?

adding pics of my tank to get an idea of what I’m talking about.

blaxsun · Dec 25, 2022

My tank is a bit smaller, but here's my current stocking list (we have a lot of the same fish). I have 12 chromis in my tank right now: 5x blue-green, 4x lyretail, 2x bicolor and 1x black bar.

Large Build - Blaxsun's Abyss: Red Sea 750XXL

You were not worried about the flukes ? Not really. The tang already had one freshwater dip previously (when it arrived) so this was a second followup. I saw 2 come off for sure (may have been a third). The tang went from an occasional rub against some of the rocks to care free immediately...

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MrGisonni · Dec 25, 2022

A small school of Chromis should be fine get at least 5

blaxsun · Dec 25, 2022

MrGisonni said:
A small school of Chromis should be fine get at least 5

And expect 1-2 to mysteriously disappear over a year...

Dan_P · Dec 25, 2022

Kalinina said:
Looking to add more fish to my current fish only. No inverts or coral/anemones. It’s an 84x24x31. It currently houses:
Yellow tang
Sailfin tang
Scopas tang
2 hippo tangs
Powder blue
Achilles
Naso lituratus
Gold spot rabbitfish
3 azure damsels
Emperor angelfish
Flagfin angelfish
1 clownfish
Midas blenny

Sounds like a lot, but the tank looks “empty” without coral or an abundance of rocks. I did order 1 male and 5 female lyretail anthias to create more movement in the middle of the tank. I’ll also put in a few more pieces of rock so they have homes.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I would like chromis, however I would hate for them to pick each other off and only end up with one. Maybe a handful of springeri damsels and a royal gramma?

adding pics of my tank to get an idea of what I’m talking about.

I suspect if you feed the current load of fish correctly, you might be on the road to posting a request for help reducing nitrates and dealing with algae.

Kalinina · Dec 25, 2022

blaxsun said:
My tank is a bit smaller, but here's my current stocking list (we have a lot of the same fish). I have 12 chromis in my tank right now: 5x blue-green, 4x lyretail, 2x bicolor and 1x black bar.

Large Build - Blaxsun's Abyss: Red Sea 750XXL

You were not worried about the flukes ? Not really. The tang already had one freshwater dip previously (when it arrived) so this was a second followup. I saw 2 come off for sure (may have been a third). The tang went from an occasional rub against some of the rocks to care free immediately...

www.reef2reef.com

Your tank is beautiful! I remember following your build thread this spring! How is your emperor doing with your corals? I love your angels, I thought about adding a flame and ebili, but I don’t want to upset my two angels as they get along really well.

You’ve talked me into it! I’ll get a small group of the c. Viridis after I receive the anthias and they settle in.

Kalinina · Dec 25, 2022

MrGisonni said:
A small school of Chromis should be fine get at least 5

Thanks! 5 it is! I’ll add more rock as well before I receive the chromis. Now thinking about it, I probably should have ordered the chromis first, and then the anthias. I need to get an auto feeder and lids for the top of the tank.

Kalinina · Dec 25, 2022

Dan_P said:
I suspect if you feed the current load of fish correctly, you might be on the road to posting a request for help reducing nitrates and dealing with algae.

Good point! I’ll get an auto feeder and see where the numbers are. With the addition of more pellets and the extra bioload, I’ll keep an eye on it. Right now I feed a lot; 7 or 8 cubes of frozen with vitachem, selcon and beta-glucan vitamins mixed in in the evening, 1 8x8 sheet of nori in the morning and 1 8x8 sheet of nori after I get home from work and a handful of small omega marine pellets once a day when I pass the tank and they are begging lol.

I don’t have algae issues (120 watt UV), and this system was hobbled together from equipment I had bought for a 360 gallon tank, so everything is over sized.

blaxsun · Dec 25, 2022

Kalinina said:
Your tank is beautiful! I remember following your build thread this spring! How is your emperor doing with your corals? I love your angels, I thought about adding a flame and ebili, but I don’t want to upset my two angels as they get along really well.

You’ve talked me into it! I’ll get a small group of the c. Viridis after I receive the anthias and they settle in.

Thanks! The emperor is still doing great - slowly morphing into an adolescent and beginning to ascend the throne (he has become a bit of a jerk at feeding time with seaweed - chasing some of the other smaller angels off until he's had first dibs). We believe he's nipping at some of the nuisance palys - but that seems to be it so far.