New Guy New Tank

[Mike brown]

Checked out Aquarium Fish: Tropical Freshwater Fish and Saltwater Fish for Home Aquariums for my choice of live stock this is what I came up with.

1-Raccoon Butterflyfish
2-Clown Fish
2-Azure Damselfish
2-Foxface Lo

Thoughts?

 

[buddy08]

i think i would only keep one foxface, not sure how 2 would do together in a tank. if their anything like tangs, they may duke it out

 

[BL1]

Did you want a reef tank? If so, I'd skip the butterfly, that one will eat inverts, corals, and can eat anemones. The damsels can get very mean and may make it hard to keep other fish with them. As far as the 2 foxfaces, I have seen them added in pairs but, I think you'd need a much larger tank in case there were aggression issues.

 

[Mike brown]

Harder then I thought. I'm trying to find nice colors for my reef tank that can be mixed with my clownfish and Carpet Anemone.

So...
1-Foxface Lo
1-Azure Damselfish
2-Clown fish
And ?

 

[Mandarin66]

Carinals?

 

[ErinCahir]

A wrasse?

 

[Mike brown]

Try this out for size.

2-Clown fish
1-Azure Damselfish
1-Foxface Lo
3-Blue Reef Chromis
3-Black Axil Chromis

?

 

[ErinCahir]

I think that would put you pretty much at your limit.
No gobies or blennies, though?

 

[Mike brown]

1-Diamond Watchman Goby

 

[ErinCahir]

Aw! Those are my favorite! I had one named Gobi Wan Kenobi... He smushed himself in a rockslide, so make sure you have stable rockwork!

 

[Mike brown]

Sorry to hear that will do.

 

[buddy08]

look at dwarf angels, you can only have one though but something like a flame angel or bi color angel are pretty fish, also a reef safe wrasse can add some color too.

 

[Samhain]

Just a thought, but you may want to take a pass on the Damsel as well. They are very aggressive and may kill your other fish. Everyone that has them seems to regret getting them, and they have a hard time catching them to get rid of them. There are folks on here that have disassembled their entire tanks just to catch one problem damsel! Yeah, they're pretty, but they don't seem worth the hassle of dealing with them.

 

[old 5k0ol]

I have an azure damsel that was one of the first couple fish I added and it's been fine for me. Make sure you have a lot of in and outs to keep them busy and keep all your other additions peaceful. You could always catch him if he has problems.

 

[old 5k0ol]

**edit: i double posted

 

[Mike brown]

They have such nice colors hmmmm keeping it in mind thx all.

I will be adding sand tonight and if time permits I will post a pic or 2 maybe I could find my serpent starfish....

 

[Mike brown]

ummmm put in the sand last night and its still pretty cloudy should I sut everything off to help it settle faster?

 

[little_fish]

Nope, just let it settle out. Might take a few days, but that just give you more time to research! Now drop in your piece of table shrimp and get your cycle going!

 

[Mike brown]

k thx. My cycle should almost be done unless adding the sand is going to make me restart it.

 

[little_fish]

no, you need to cycle your tank properly. You had so little rock in there before hand, i highly doubt tank even cycled at all. But because you bought all live rock it should be a short cycle.