Mattias' BioCube 29 *New Angel!*

Hello all! For the past few months I've been gathering knowledge and Equiptment to get my biocube 29 reef going. I bought the tank with some other goodies in CL and I'm almost there!!! Just a few more items before I'm ready to cycle...
Salt
Rock
Sand
Refractometer

The cycle will start around Christmas.
Here is my current stock list idea...

Fish:
1 occelaris clown
1 royal gramma
1 bangaii cardinal
1 purple fire fish
1 Midas blenny
1 pink spot goby
Too much? More?

Inverts:
Misc. feather duster
2 skunk cleaner shrimp
1 fire shrimp
1 emerald crab
15 nasaurius snails(spelling)
15 hermits(???)

Corals:
Zoas
Montis
Torch
Shrooms
Toadstool
Frogspawn
Candy cane

What'dya think?

I have a koralia nano and a rio 600.. Enough flow?

I plan to toss the bioballs and will be using the in tank media basket and fuge for macro, purigen, and chemi pure.

 

Sounds nice, seems like a little bit many fish for a biocube 29, I would keep 4 fish unless there all tiny gobies. HTH;D

 

Personally I'd go with less.

When I started my tank (like, 9 or 10 months ago... can't believe it's been that long) I started with four. That was plenty! They are cool little creatures to watch, but they do bulldoze frags (I even had em knocking off ones glued down!) and they can kill snails if they think they need a bigger home.

I think I am down to one or two now... and I am happy with that number

 

I would nix the Midas blenny and pink spot goby. At least at first. Those two can be semi territorial in some cases... from what I've read they get worse when they are in anything smaller than a 30g tank. It isn't much smaller but putting two territorial fish that like in a 29 might cause them undue stress. Not to mention the Midas might pick on your other fish as well. Especially the Blenny and even the Purple Fire Fish. At least... that's what I have read. I don't have any of these fish myself and it also depends on their personality. Some people have better luck with these sort of things than others.

I also agree with the comment earlier regarding the hermits.

Either way I want to see pics of this thing when you get it all set up. I bet it will look very nice.

 

Thanks for your replys! Do you guys think I'd be better off with a sixline instead of the Midas?

 

Welcome to the hobby, and to 3reef. I think your fish stock list may be a little too much. I would go with
1 occelaris clown
[STRIKE]1 royal gramma[/STRIKE]
1 bangaii cardinal
1 purple fire fish
1 Midas blenny
[STRIKE]1 pink spot goby[/STRIKE]
Adding the firefish, cardinal and clown at the same time, then the blenny. Clowns and cardinals have a great track record imo, i havnt seen nor read about these 2 species beefing... although i may be wrong.

You sound like your off to a great start. just remember to go slow. your inverts sound pretty good personally i would just get 1 skunk.. thats just me. everything else seems up to par and should be great when all is said and done!

one more thing what kind of lighting is on the tank, im not sure if you specified?

 

Cool! So I could add those three fish at the same time?

 

If added last i don't see a problem with it. I was going to buy one, but i ran into a Pseudocheilinus evanidus at the lfs. Awesome fish. Ive never seen one until i saw this at the store. Hes very independent, avoids confrontation with all of my fish. My Watchman goby tries him every time comes near her "rock". harmless but funny to watch.

 

Lol I love when watchmens do there open-mouth lunge thing. Very amusing.

 

its best to add them within at least a month. Heres what i would do
**As soon as the cycle is over
1. add your cuc. this will benefit you in the long run!!!
wait a week or 2
2. add your first fish witch you cant go wrong with a clown as your first
wait about a month
3. add your next fish. If you chose the bangaii and the fire fish if small enough should be fine to add as a pair.
wait a month
4. add a your next fish
(I say wait a month to help guide you as to if your system is okay with it, this may need to be longer.)
Then add corals!! you can add corals along the way too, the addition to corals doesnt hurt your bio load as much as fish do.

I would limit the fish to 4. 1 being im a fan of not too many fish in a tank. I have 4 in my 20 and it may be a little much but i plan on upgrading very soon. And im confident that my wc and filtration can handle this.