Order of adding fish

[logibear]

So after waiting for almost a year, I finally have my tank! It is a waterbox 190.5 so display tank is ~135-140 gallon without the rock. Getting all of my rock and sand from TBS starting mid-late January.

I fully admit I am not very good at coming up with the order of stocking fish. Below are the fish I would like to get, please let me know if there are any big incompatibilities that you see and then in what order would you add them. The most obvious is that I will start with the clownfish pair but after that I am completely unsure. Oh I also plan to get them all from Dr Reef's and will be starting with softies/LPS, will consider SPS in the future.

- pair of Ocellaris clownfish
- Royal gramma
- Multicolor Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse
- Springeri Damsel
- Starry blenny
- Wheeler's shrimp goby/pistol shrimp
- Yellow eye spotted kole tang
- Foxface
- hopefully a mandarin down the road a ways
- yellow tang maybe?

Thanks!

 

[fishywishy]

That list is fine and you can add everything on that list at any time.

Except the Mandarin but you already know that.

 

[logibear]

I feel most people add tangs later. Any issues with those ones? Don’t think either are particularly aggressive

 

[Reefing_addiction]

1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish!!


Tangs can be aggressive in not sure on each type specifically but tangs last is a good plan.

Tangs that look a like may fight may not…I think getting them small and roughly the same size helps as well as adding both at the same time.

Hopefully someone smarter then me in the tang department can help
@F i s h y os a tang hoarder he may have good advice

 

[LAReefer4Life]

I have always had better success adding tangs last. They can be aggressive, especially towards one another. I suggest adding odd numbers of tangs at the same time for better success with aggression. 3 tangs added vs 2 help disperse aggression, but it all depends on size, species, etc.

 

[logibear]

Plan on getting all of them pretty small. Really helpful info, thanks everyone!

 

[F i s h y]

So after waiting for almost a year, I finally have my tank! It is a waterbox 190.5 so display tank is ~135-140 gallon without the rock. Getting all of my rock and sand from TBS starting mid-late January.

I fully admit I am not very good at coming up with the order of stocking fish. Below are the fish I would like to get, please let me know if there are any big incompatibilities that you see and then in what order would you add them. The most obvious is that I will start with the clownfish pair but after that I am completely unsure. Oh I also plan to get them all from Dr Reef's and will be starting with softies/LPS, will consider SPS in the future.

- pair of Ocellaris clownfish
- Royal gramma
- Multicolor Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse
- Springeri Damsel
- Starry blenny
- Wheeler's shrimp goby/pistol shrimp
- Yellow eye spotted kole tang
- Foxface
- hopefully a mandarin down the road a ways
- yellow tang maybe?

Thanks!

I would agree your list looks good. Foxface and tangs in at same time and you should be good.

 

[brandon429]

No discussion of disease coming whatsoever

With that list, in any order, ich by February. There are many sources you can verify that % risk, it isn't right here but in the disease forum. Skipping disease preps with that list: guaranteed

Here's how to avoid

Has anyone done coral/inverts only and no fish at first?

How do you guys that don't have fish provide organic carbon to the system? Would vodka dosing help with this, feed the bacteria with a carbon source? It’ll be a balance, but I’ve ran fishless I just broadcast fed the tank twice a week with the pumps off the same food I feed to fish.

www.reef2reef.com

That's the right stocking order. All fish last, after the full reef is built and fallowed.

Of course a new tanker will skip that ordering, it's very slow and patient.


They'll be assured by other prep skippers nothing will go wrong, and none of that discussion comes from the disease forum it's from any other place where the consequences for bad advice don't play out in pattern like they do there

Before action, and to double check advices here, start this exact thread new copy in the disease forum, see how many advise you to skip preps with that list. If you planned two clowns only and a clown goby you could get away most likely, that's what most nano reefers do

But with that list? Ich within two mos hands down, this is to help you plan accordingly

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Yellow tang probably means a very small tank raised one. It might be best added earlier rather than later.