stock compadibility help

[canadian reefer]

I have a 55 gallon tank with 75lbs of live rock and 60lbs of live sand. It has a protein skimmer raged for 125 gallons. Just wondering if I could keep 3 maroon clowns, 2 engineer gobies and a tiger jawfish together. Any info will be appreciated. Thank you

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

I know for sure the clowns will be a problem.

 

[canadian reefer]

I know for sure the clowns will be a problem.

Are you sure? I know that it can be done with perculla clowns since my friend has a tank with 5. I'm just worried since these can grow to 6" and are more agressive


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[Otter_rs]

Maroon clowns are best in single pairs. The female will get large, but the male wont get bigger than a couple inches. The engineer gobies will excavate all of your sand from under your rock work causing the rocks collapse unless they are supported by something other than the sand. I would not recommend a jaw fish with engineer gobies as the gobies will tend to destroy a jawfish's burrow and stress the jawfish out.


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[Gregory]

Otter_rs is correct the Maroon clowns are best kept in single pairs. If you have three two will probably pare up and keep the third cornered all the time. I like engineer Gobies but he is also correct the will excavate your sand. I have aragonite bed and they even move it around alot. I don't have a jawfish so I do not know how they will react with the gobies. I do keep engineer gobies and watchan gobies in my 110 gallon tank but they stay on each end of the tank. I keep pistol shrimp with my watchman gobies. I have seen no agression between the engineer s and the watchmans. I would think the Jaw fish would be close to the same behavior as the watchman and pistol shrimp since the also burrow under the rocks.