Sca 66 gallon stocking help.....

Jakob · Oct 17, 2020

Possible fish list

2 perc clowns (already got) could throw them into my empty 15 gallon thats cycling right now
1 or 2 Enginner goby
Kole tang
Marine Betta
Mandarin dragonet (very last fish)

66 gallon tank with a reef octopus 150sss classic

driftin · Oct 17, 2020

I have a similarly dimensioned tank, I don't think it will be large enough for the Kole tang. I'd consider a dwarf angel instead.

Clownfish_Boy · Oct 17, 2020

You had better make sure you first establish a healthy copepod population before adding the Mandarin ! I am told that my 60 gallon may not support enough pods to keep up with the demands of a dragonet, but I'm going to try that myself anyway..... And so am about to seed my tank with pods too.

Jakob · Oct 17, 2020

Clownfish_Boy said:
You had better make sure you first establish a healthy copepod population before adding the Mandarin ! I am told that my 60 gallon may not support enough pods to keep up with the demands of a dragonet, but I'm going to try that myself anyway..... And so am about to seed my tank with pods too.

Yea i was even thinking about doing a separate pod farm just for them. I really like those fish. But that's going to be way down the line

Jakob · Oct 17, 2020

driftin said:
I have a similarly dimensioned tank, I don't think it will be large enough for the Kole tang. I'd consider a dwarf angel instead.

Yea I'll look into them. If I can find one to leave corals alone

Clownfish_Boy · Oct 17, 2020

Jakob said:
Yea i was even thinking about doing a separate pod farm just for them. I really like those fish. But that's going to be way down the line

Yep, you can always culture pods externally to keep up with the demand !

Will Wohlers · Feb 11, 2021

How'd your stocking go? I have this same system I setup around the middle of last year. It's not my only reef tank but the one im making into my dream system changing everything ive done wrong or didn't like on my previous/ current other tanks so im taking it extremely slow and enjoying the process. I only have 3 fish in it so far and some high end shrooms but eventually this will be an acro display.