Help with stocking

Salty Marine · 10-05-2006, 06:30 PM

Here is my stocking plan and stocking order

1 A. Ocellaris *Clown
1 Nemateleotris magnifica or Nemateleotris helfrichi *Firefish
1 Ecsenius midas *Midas Blenny
1 Neocirrhitus armatus *Flame hawkfish
1 Cirrhilabrus exquisitus{male) or Psuedochellinus ocellatus (male) or Cirrhilabrus lineatus (male)

Any approvals, suggestions or warnings?

SpecailEd · 10-05-2006, 07:38 PM

I had a Hawk Fish in my reef tank along with two Maroon Clowns, Watchman Goby and 6 Line Wrasse, In a 55 Gallon tank with alot of live rock, he Wouldn't leave my other fish alone and ate my snails. I had them together for 3 months, and hardly saw my other fish, once i finally caught the lil guy everything is more active.

As far as I know the rest should be reef friendly and get along, you might add the fire fish last so everything else can get a hiding place?

Salty Marine · 10-06-2006, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by SpecailEd

I had a Hawk Fish in my reef tank along with two Maroon Clowns, Watchman Goby and 6 Line Wrasse, In a 55 Gallon tank with alot of live rock, he Wouldn't leave my other fish alone and ate my snails. I had them together for 3 months, and hardly saw my other fish, once i finally caught the lil guy everything is more active.

As far as I know the rest should be reef friendly and get along, you might add the fire fish last so everything else can get a hiding place?

2 questions.
1. Any suggestions on a substitution for the hawkfish?
2. Can you explain why you would wait till last to add the firefish? Most research I can done on the net suggest stocking orders based on size and aggressiveness. Is the firefish more aggressive in respect to my stocking plans than I am aware?

Thanks for all the help.

SpecailEd · 10-06-2006, 08:20 AM

There's all kinds of fish that would do as a sub for the hawk fish, sounds like you have quite a bit of fish chosen already, so maybe nothing for right now, just see how the other ones you've picked work out.

Ahh and about the firefish, i was under the impression it was something other than what it is. Disreguard my comment on it lol