Is there room for anymore fish?

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  1. GAZBO

    GAZBO Fire Shrimp

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    I think I know the answer but wanted your opinions if there is more room for fish. I would like to add a black and white clown or pair if there is room I know they may not get along with my other clowns but had success before with my last tank and would love to see them together again.
    I have a 150g tank with 55g sump.
    My stocklist consists of
    golden wrasse
    yellow tang
    blue hippo tang
    flame angel
    2-clowns not sure what kind
    2-green chromis
    fire goby
    lawnmower blenny of some sort
    scooter blenny
    mandrin goby
    yellow watchman goby with pistol shrimp
    chiton goby
    cleaner wrasse

    INVERTS
    5-6 peppermint shrimp
    2-cleaner shrimp
    1-fire shrimp
    3-boxing pom pom crabs
    6-8 emerald crab
    3-different star fish serpant, brittle and dont know the third
    1-pencil sea urchin
    and of course many blue/red hermits many misc. snails

    Missing critters dont know it there alive
    second pistol shrimp
    high fin goby
    A male fairy wrasse cant remember exactly what one have not seen it since the day I put him in he was barrowed at the LFS and think that is what he is doing now but have not seen him at day or night hope he is still alive its been about month now
     
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  3. Fisk

    Fisk Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    there should be room for more in a 150 gallon... maybe a midas blenny, a cleaner wrasse, Foxface?
     
  4. GAZBO

    GAZBO Fire Shrimp

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    I definatly would like a pair of black clowns and if there is room for anymore after that I am open for suggestions
     
  5. 1.0reef

    1.0reef Giant Squid

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    I wouldn't add any more fish, it will give a weird "crowded look"
    HTH :)
     
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  6. Sacul1573

    Sacul1573 Millepora

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    Well, couple of questions need to be answered first.

    The first is if your filtration can handle the bioload? Quality skimmer, large fuge or carbon dosing?

    The second is an observation of your current livestock. Is everyone healthy, with no sign of ich (which is usually induced by stress)? Is everyone playing well together? Probably the blue tang or the angel would be the first to show signs that the tank is too crowded.

    The third is the behavior of your current clowns. Are they mated, and is something hosting them (aka, a favorite spot)? If so, likely another pair will have enought room to find their own spot.
     
  7. Ryan Duchatel

    Ryan Duchatel Millepora

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    I would not add another pair of clowns, it will most likely end in disaster.

    +1 to about what type of filtration you have.

    and +10 to 1.0Reef, I hope you have a huge pod population to take both a scooter blenny and mandarin. How long have they both been in the tank for?
     
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  9. GAZBO

    GAZBO Fire Shrimp

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    I set up my tank in March on st patricks day of this year I bought a 125g established tank he had it for a year and a half and bought it from someone else so I would guess its been about 4 years old and used his setup for the 150g tank I rebuilt, liked the size better than the 125g aftler adding that tank it looked bare so I went to a fellow reefer who had a 75g tank that was established for about 15 years and bought all the contants it the tank. Then everytime I ordered something from reefs2go I would buy more pods about 4000 so far and in fact they had a daily special today with 2000 pods and refugium plants and then I added 2000 more just to keep them happy and fat. I dont think pods are an issue.
    As far as the fish getting along they are doing great the clowns hang out together during the day but at night they go to there own anemone and everyone is healthy matter of fact when I first added the flame angel it broke out with ich and but cleared up in less than a week (thank god) only thing that fight are the chromis's they chace each other time to time

    I will post pics of my filter system in a few min.
     
  10. GAZBO

    GAZBO Fire Shrimp

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    Here is my sump its 55g one half has about a 2-3 inch sand bed with some liverock and then chateo(I have some other veriaties coming soon from reefs2go) and its devided by a filter media then a SWC protien skimmer, phosban reator, return pump, grounding probe, and then on the outside of the sump is a lifeguard filter system that has a filter media followed by a carbon media and then a uv sterilizer.
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  11. GAZBO

    GAZBO Fire Shrimp

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    This is an old pic of my tank I will post an updated one tomorrow but you can see how I created a shelf to give more room for swimming in the center of the tank. In this pic there are 2 fire fish but one disappeared a while back and now there is just one
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  12. GAZBO

    GAZBO Fire Shrimp

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    why shouldn't cleaner wrasse's be in aquariums?