Order of adding fish

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I know it depends on the fish, but generally speaking, in which order would you introduce these stock to your tank...
(525XL Tank)
My order in batches of quarantine

1)Yellow watchman goby
Neon blue goby
2 firefish
Bicolor blenny
Tailspot blenny

2) Starry blenny
Peacock wrasse
1 or 2 cardinal pajama
1 or 2 cardinal kaudern

3) 2x occelaris/clarkii clown
Royal gramma basslet
Yellow Tang

4) Kole Yellow eye tang
Diamond goby
(maybe baby Powder Blue Tang which I would have to sell when it out grows tank)

Or if you have suggestions on what I should remove or consider adding...

Can't do jawfish, sandbed not deep enough
 
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the only advice I have is to add any aggressive fish last.
 
You may find that you have aggression issues with the three blennies, and I would either swap out the tangs (Kole first, yellow last) or add both together.

~Bruce
thanks, will consider that. The yellow Tang is her 'want' fish, Kole is mine.
Starry, Bicolor and Tailspot blennies will have a problem with each other in a 5 foot?
 
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I can't be certain, as I haven't tried the three together - but all three perch on rock and browse on algae, so I'm thinking that they might see one another as rivals.

~Bruce
 
I would recommend occ over the Clark's clowns. Clarkii get big and aggressive, like maroons.

Kole and starry blenny may hate each other.
 
Yellow Tangs tend to be jerks once they get a certain size, and rehoming a fish that gets too big is NEVER a good plan. So I would the count the Yellow and Powder Blue out. I also agree that for clowns stick to Occ or Percula varieties. The rest get super territorial/aggressive once established (not saying that the Occ or Percula can't, but they stay smaller so aren't as much of a threat to decent sized fish). Also the Peacock Wrasse (better known as the Leopard Wrasse) is a notoriously poor shipper and has difficulty in adapting to captivity, and only the most adaptable members of the species do well for any length of time. So with them it is literally a case of picking the right fish. The best method I can recommend for them is to wait for your LFS (Local Fish Store) to do a bulk order on them and then come back in a few weeks and see which one(s) are still active and feeding and that will go a long way to ensuring you get one that is adaptable and will last. It is the method I used with my Blue Star Leopard and 4 months later it is still active and healthy in my display tank and eats like a pig.
 

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