Stocking Ideas for my 33 Gallon

[Doc]

you want to plan for between 1 inch of fish for every 4 to 5 gallons of tank water as a general rule. Try to plan your bioload to that rough measurement and then you will be fine.

-Doc

[reeffreak]

Originally Posted by michelle

I am going to add more LR. I was going for about 55-60lbs total. Is that a good amount in a 33? I had heard that too much LR is a bad thing and not to go over 2lbs a gallon.

I wouldn't exceed the 2lbs per gallon either,its good to give fish some swimming room.I think 1.5-2lbs per gallon is about perfect.

I was hoping to add 2 purple firefish and something else small...maybe I will go with the flasher wrasse. Thanks for the suggestion.
I did want one more clown as well, for company to my current one. Thanks for telling me they need to be the same type, I never knew that.

Make sure you have a top-wrasses,dartfishes and gobies like to jump.My suggestion on clowns is to get one that is larger or smaller than what you have already,more likely to pair up that way.I have a 210g and my Clarkii clowns killed my Maroon clowns,learn from my mistake.I thought my tank was big enough for two different clowns,apparently not.

So, that would give me 2 firefish, 1 wrasse and 2 clownfish. Would that be too much? I also like the sand sifter goby( i was told either an orangemarked, sleeperbanded, or twinspot would be ok choices) but, I guess that would be too much?

I think adding a small goby will be okay.They stay small and doesn't really add that much to the bioload.Stick with smaller watchmen gobies.Stay away from sleeper gobies,some like the gold/yellow headed sleeper grow really large,up to 6''-7'' long.My favorite are the tailspot gobies,yashirs,randalls prong goby.



I would love to get a cleaner shrimp at some point, would that be ok or should I look at a different shrimp if any?

Perfect!I don't think a tank is complete without a Skunk cleaner or Fire shrimp.They don't count towards the bio-load,IMO.Heck,I would get both if you like.Great scavengers and cleans the fish of parasites too.

Thanks!

I pretty much said the same as Biff,good luck.