fish selection

[robeterl]

I currently have two Ocellaris Clown fish, one green chromis, one, PJ Cardinal, one banded shrimp, and a cleanup crew. I was thinking of adding a lawnmower blenny, royal gramma, and a flame hawk fish. Would this be a good idea?

 

[Greenman]

in a 40g, You may get away with the blenny but that's about it. you're pretty much at your max

 

[ErinCahir]

+1 Greenman

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

+2 Green

 

[little_fish]

+1

But there are way cooler blennies out there than the lawnmower, I am a particular fan of the tribal and starry blennies

 

[sankhamg]

In my point of view for a 40g your already in the max stage and I've gone down that road but believe me overstocking fish will only make things worse. Chances are the filtration might not be able to handle the bio load or the 40G will not give the fishes enough space and they will get stressed and die. Specially hawkfishes are territorial animals, they will not hesitate to attack a fish double it's size if it gets too close and you have to forget about clean up crew if your adding a one. :P