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[BubblesandSqueak]

Potential stocking list:
2 clowns(Have)
2 bengali cardinalfish(Arilrive Friday let's hope they play noce)
1 Fox face
1 Starry blenny
1 Pyramid butterfly
1Sand sifting goby?
Wrasse the rest?

Thoughts? Order of acquisition suggestions? If I had everything on this list would more than one wrasse be an option? I have a 4' 120g tank.

You might get kicked off here if you don’t include a tail spot!

 

[Nor'easter reefer]

You might get kicked off here if you don’t include a tail spot!

Should it jive well with a Starry? I love Starry blennies so I have to have one of them..

 

[Calmwaters]

You might get kicked off here if you don’t include a tail spot!

Yes that is a real possibility...

 

[luis angel]

Mine is probably actually very overstocked but I seem to have a decent nutrient export and everything is happy and healthy.

If you have to add No3 and Po4 to the tank, I think there is no sign that you have too much livestock lol

 

[JoJosReef]

Wouldn't the foxface control most of that or do you think both of them would be suitable? I know i'll have to feed seaweed sheets either way. I just donr knlw how much of abhurting these fish would put on the algae.

What size tank again? Sorry, I'd search but one hand on the grille.

 

[luis angel]

You might get kicked off here if you don’t include a tail spot!

 

[Calmwaters]

What size tank again? Sorry, I'd search but one hand on the grille.

He said 4ft 120 gallons

 

[JoJosReef]

He said 4ft 120 gallons

Thanks!

 

[Nor'easter reefer]

Updated, and improved stocking list. Thoughts? Especially thoughts about order of introduction?
2 clowns(have)
2 bengali cardinalfish(arrive Friday, let's hope they play nice)
1 Fox face
1 Starry blenny
1 Pyramid butterfly
1 Springeri damselfish
1 Halichoeres chrysus
1-2 Mccoskers flasher wrasse(single or male and female????)
1-2 Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis(single or male and female????)
1 Ctenochaetus truncatus(square tail bristle tooth tang)
Sand sifting goby?
Leapord wrasses when I'm confident I can keep an "expert only" fish alive lol

 

[kevgib67]

Updated, and improved stocking list. Thoughts? Especially thoughts about order of introduction?
2 clowns(have)
2 bengali cardinalfish(arrive Friday, let's hope they play nice)
1 Fox face
1 Starry blenny
1 Pyramid butterfly
1 Springeri damselfish
1 Halichoeres chrysus
1-2 Mccoskers flasher wrasse(single or male and female????)
1-2 Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis(single or male and female????)
1 Ctenochaetus truncatus(square tail bristle tooth tang)
Sand sifting goby?
Leapord wrasses when I'm confident I can keep an "expert only" fish alive lol

What? Still no tailspot blenny, really? You probably hate tacos!

 

[smitten with ocean life]

i wish i knew why i cant keep one! i love those. but ive tried 3 now! maybe because i dont have algae? idk... at least i know how to eat a taco!

 

[Calmwaters]

Updated, and improved stocking list. Thoughts? Especially thoughts about order of introduction?
2 clowns(have)
2 bengali cardinalfish(arrive Friday, let's hope they play nice)
1 Fox face
1 Starry blenny
1 Pyramid butterfly
1 Springeri damselfish
1 Halichoeres chrysus
1-2 Mccoskers flasher wrasse(single or male and female????)
1-2 Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis(single or male and female????)
1 Ctenochaetus truncatus(square tail bristle tooth tang)
Sand sifting goby?
Leapord wrasses when I'm confident I can keep an "expert only" fish alive lol

Leopard Wrasse are not hard I'm far from an expert and mine has done great from day one. They are beautiful fish in my opinion. And you still have room for a tailspot....

 

[Nor'easter reefer]

What? Still no tailspot blenny, really? You probably hate tacos!

No one answered about how a Starry and a tailspot would get along so I assumed no news meant "we don't talk about that here..."

 

[Nor'easter reefer]

You tailspot junkies!

 

[Calmwaters]

No one answered about how a Starry and a tailspot would get along so I assumed no news meant "we don't talk about that here..."

I think they will be fine together if I remember right from my research.

 

[Calmwaters]

You tailspot junkies!

Once you have one you will always want to have one...

 

[JoJosReef]

Potential stocking list:
2 clowns(Have)
2 bengali cardinalfish(Arilrive Friday let's hope they play noce)
1 Fox face
1 Starry blenny
1 Pyramid butterfly
1Sand sifting goby?
Wrasse the rest?

Thoughts? Order of acquisition suggestions? If I had everything on this list would more than one wrasse be an option? I have a 4' 120g tank.

Sorry @Calmwaters ended up bouncing up the replies anyway, but thanks!!

Plenty of room for wrasses. Great genuses to add:
-Halichoeres (pigs)... chrysus, leucoxanthus, iridis, pallidus ($$), lapillus ($$$), biocellatus and claudia... could also manage a melanurus if it plays nicely.
- Macropharyngodon (leopards)... any of them. Could even go with two contrasters like a bipartitis and negrosensis.
-Paracheilinus (flashers)... any combo of them, with caution on the eightline
-Cirrhilabrus (fairies)... Can combine with caution, refer to diagram below.

-Anampses... some would say an Anampses would work like a meleagrides or neoguiaicus in a 4fter, but I feel woth other larger fish it might be cramped. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
-Pseudocheilinus... at your own risk, not recommended
-Pseudojuloides (pink streak)... tank might be too active for these shy giys, but if tank tirns out to be really peaceful, a male/female or fem/fem pair of pinkies is delightful
-Wetmorella (possums)... like the pinkies, but some individuals do better than others in larger tanks

If your tank were mine, I'd mostly be worried about the clowns but proceed with 2 leopards (black and blue star), a radiant (Halichoeres iridis), a blue flasher (cyaneus), a royal flasher (angulatus) or diamondtail (attenuatus) if I'm flush, and 3 peaceful fairies (isosceles or brunneus, rhomboidalis, equisitus, lubbocki, bathyphilus, or if I'm burning cash an earlei). All personal preferences! Pinkies and possums probably not, although I love my pair of pinkies--I'd prefer them being established first before the others came in. Re: clowns, I'd be ready to grab them and put them in prison. My clown pair started harassing my brunneus, and the second they looked at the pinkies twice they were out.

 

[JoJosReef]

Updated, and improved stocking list. Thoughts? Especially thoughts about order of introduction?
2 clowns(have)
2 bengali cardinalfish(arrive Friday, let's hope they play nice)
1 Fox face
1 Starry blenny
1 Pyramid butterfly
1 Springeri damselfish
1 Halichoeres chrysus
1-2 Mccoskers flasher wrasse(single or male and female????)
1-2 Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis(single or male and female????)
1 Ctenochaetus truncatus(square tail bristle tooth tang)
Sand sifting goby?
Leapord wrasses when I'm confident I can keep an "expert only" fish alive lol

Don't get two of the same fairy or flasher. In our closed systems they don't maintain the social structure and almost inevitably both transition to males and fight to the death. I'd avoid with Halichoeres as well. Leopards with caution--basically be ready to grab if both transition.

 

[kevgib67]

You tailspot junkies!

Get a tailspot and then get a bag full of tacos and you’ll understand.

 

[Nor'easter reefer]

Sorry @Calmwaters ended up bouncing up the replies anyway, but thanks!!

Plenty of room for wrasses. Great genuses to add:
-Halichoeres (pigs)... chrysus, leucoxanthus, iridis, pallidus ($$), lapillus ($$$), biocellatus and claudia... could also manage a melanurus if it plays nicely.
- Macropharyngodon (leopards)... any of them. Could even go with two contrasters like a bipartitis and negrosensis.
-Paracheilinus (flashers)... any combo of them, with caution on the eightline
-Cirrhilabrus (fairies)... Can combine with caution, refer to diagram below.

-Anampses... some would say an Anampses would work like a meleagrides or neoguiaicus in a 4fter, but I feel woth other larger fish it might be cramped. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
-Pseudocheilinus... at your own risk, not recommended
-Pseudojuloides (pink streak)... tank might be too active for these shy giys, but if tank tirns out to be really peaceful, a male/female or fem/fem pair of pinkies is delightful
-Wetmorella (possums)... like the pinkies, but some individuals do better than others in larger tanks

If your tank were mine, I'd mostly be worried about the clowns but proceed with 2 leopards (black and blue star), a radiant (Halichoeres iridis), a blue flasher (cyaneus), a royal flasher (angulatus) or diamondtail (attenuatus) if I'm flush, and 3 peaceful fairies (isosceles or brunneus, rhomboidalis, equisitus, lubbocki, bathyphilus, or if I'm burning cash an earlei). All personal preferences! Pinkies and possums probably not, although I love my pair of pinkies--I'd prefer them being established first before the others came in. Re: clowns, I'd be ready to grab them and put them in prison. My clown pair started harassing my brunneus, and the second they looked at the pinkies twice they were out.

Theres a lot of names I need to research haha! Awesome write up thank you very much!