Need your opinions on my fish choice

[aquarookie]

Hi everyone,
I have a 54 corner bow front with plenty of LR (I can only guess that it is 75-100 lbs), with a 20-something gallon refugium under it (no good light over fuge yet, so the chaeto ball stays compact) and some LR in the fuge. The tank's current residents are:

Blue carpet anemone (S. Haddoni)
Clarkii clown
Blue tuxedo urchin
Scarlet hermit
Zebra hermit
Pom pom crab
3 sexy shrimp
Diadema urchin in the fuge
couple clumps of pulsing xenia
couple groups of green button polyps
few clusters of pink palys (thanks Tracy)
rock with some ricordea yuma babies
big red metallic shroom
several green striped shrooms
one tiny red shroom with white streaks
small sheet of pink star polyps
one small-ish LPS of some sort (ask Tracy what it is :lol... Galaxia maybe?
Hitchhiker sponges

Wow, I can not believe how long the list seems... the tank still looks so empty! Anyway, I really like the following fish and I was wondering if it would be OK to add them to the tank. I want to make sure they are compatible and I also don't want to max out the bioload. Here they are:

Royal Gramma (OR bicolor pseudo, but not both)
Flame angel
Coral beauty angel
Six line wrasse

Also I want to replace the clarkii clown with either a pair of gold stripe marrons or a pair of black saddle clowns.

So I would have a total of 6 fish (unless I end up adding mandarin dragonets to the fuge, which would make 8). And to top it off, I would love to get a blue Maxima clam. Do you guys think that would be too much? Are any of them not reef safe? Thanks for all your input and Happy New Year!

P.S. I know that theoretically one or more of the fish could get eaten by the anemone, but the clown does guard it fiercely so I imagine chances of that are low. Besides, the nem could use some extra nutrition :lol:

 

[aquarookie]

forgot to mention...

My tank is pretty warm... like 82 degrees (I know, I know) and I have a choice of either a 400 watt 14k MH or a 250 watt 10k MH with future actinic PC supplementation. The tank is less than 2 feet deep (22 inches is max, if I remember correctly). The water is pretty clean, I do not have a ton of flow but everyone seems happy in the tank. I also have a sandbed which the clown loves to stir with its tail movements.

 

[balogh03]

Sounds good to me the only thing that i would do differently is to choose between one or the other angels. It might be okay with both of them but i wouldnt take the chance in that small of a tank. You could maybe add a couple of firefish to replace the angel that you dont choose and it would still be less waste. Either way, it is your tank and we can only pursuade you so much, so do what you think your money would be spent the best.

good luck

-augustus

Here is a purple fire and regular fire

 

[jsmkmavity]

the flame and coral beauty are questionable. it depends on the personality of each fish but generally speaking those two are a potential hazard to some inverts in your tank. you may be fine for a while, even a couple years and then all of a sudden things start getting nipped or you may never have a problem. if you really want one just keep a careful eye on things and the coral beauty is usually the less likely of the 2 to be a problem.

 

[dpaynter]

If you add a mandarin to the refugium, it won't be a refugium anymore. The mandarin will clear it out of small organisms and then probably starve, especially since the six-line will be clearing out the main tank.

 

[aquarookie]

Well, I have a particular coral beauty in mind... Don't have a particular flame angel in mind, so maybe I just won't look for one (see, that was easy). Now, which would be better: a royal gramma or a bicolor pseudochromis? My daughter really wants one of them, but I don't think she cares which one. Thanks!

 

[brady816]

i would go with the top right fish.. or just get a lion fish

 

[aquarookie]

Well, it's funny you say that... since someone here has a lionfish for sale that I was interested in. But it would just hide behind the rocks and pollute the tank... What's the fun in that?

 

[Herefishyfishy]

would just hide behind the rocks and pollute... What's the fun in that?

Sounds like some of my diving partners

 

[brady816]

I have 2 fuzzy dwarf lionfish and they swim all over the tank. My 2 guys are very active for sure..

 

[balogh03]

I had a blue dwarf once too, and they do swim alot with cool personality...until you go on vecation and then they only like to swim upside down

-augustus

 

[aquarookie]

I had a blue dwarf once too, and they do swim alot with cool personality...until you go on vecation and then they only like to swim upside down

-augustus

Well, I am not a big fan of Upside-down lion fish. But then again, the word Vacation is absent from my vocabulary, so I might be OK.

Sounds like some of my diving partners

Ha ha ha ha! Can you trade them in at your LFS? :lol: