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Fish_First

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Okay I know this would be over stocked... but is it do able?? I'm pretty experienced (5 years under the belt 3 fish dead the first year lost one the next, none in the last 3).

This is the stocking I WANT...

1 Blue Tang (already have)
1 Yellow Tang (already have)
1 True Percula Clownfish (already have)
1 Bengali Cardinalfish
1 Flame Angel
1 Firefish (already have)
1 Christmas Wrasse (already have)
1 Royal Gramma (already have)
1 Jeweled Rockskipper
1 Orange Stripe Prawn Goby
12 Electric Blue Hermit Crabs
1 Green Serpant Starfish (already have)
12 Turbo Snails
2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
2 Peppermint Shrimp
1 pistol shrimp
Some Corals and Mushrooms

Wow... okay the list got bigger than I expected it to be... but what should I cut???
 
Are the electric blue crabs the same as blue-legged hermits? If so, be careful - the eat snails...

You may want more than 12 snails as well. I have seen (and have used) as many as 1 snail/gallon.

I would think the number of fish/animals you could have would depend on flitration. Live rock or wet/dry? 10 fish in 125 gallons should be fine with proper filitration.

Jon
 
125lbs - 150 lbs of live rock with a skimmer is my filtration. Yes they are the crabs you speak of... I've heard mixed things about them, I've heard they take out the snails with the shell they want, and other stories of how they just kill every snail. I was gonna try 12 turbos at first then add from there if the hermits don't kill everything. But maybe I should just go with a different type of crab. Any suggestions?
 
I've had better luck with red-legged hermits. Not as aggressive. The blue legged ate 50 of the 60 snails I had in my 55. Now I am trying to locate all the blue ones and get rid of them...

With your filtration setup you should have no problem with 10 fish. I ran 4-5 fish and 70 crabs and snail in my 55 until hurricane charley came and I was withou power for a week - lost all of it...

J
 
JMO, but I would not add anything but what you already have. An overstocked tank is one that's always on the brink--any little change can push it over.
 
I would like to know the answer to that as well. My impression/understanding was 1 fish/10gal for a reef - not including snails, crabs, etc...

J
 
I'm not sure if your overstocked. I don't know all of your fish though. What o.g. may be getting at is what your fishes territorial needs are not sure. If this is going to be a reef I'd go with a variety of smaller snail species. They all do differnt sorts of work and if they are smaller the hermits won't look at them as a possible home meal maybe but, it should cut down on losses . Unless one of your crabs develop a taste for escargot that is/
 
All the fish I've got are in two aquariums right now... I'm in the process of upgrading because I have a taste for tangs :) I think I could drop the flame angel... I have enough orange/red in the tank... but I have nothing that swims at the bottom of the tank... thats why I want the Jeweled rockskipper and the goby... I also want an achilles tang but I think I should wait until I have a bigger setup for him...
 
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