I am pretty much set on at least a Yellow and a Naso tang. Apart from that, I'm pretty much undecided. There will be snails, crabs, and shrimp in the tank. Eventually, I would like to have some low light corals. I like BIG fish, at least 5 inches. I would however like to have a group of schooling fish. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Need help stocking a 450 gallon
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No, seriously, if you want schooling fish then get a whole school of baby yellow tangs! Actually, lots of tangs will school, but since you're already doing the yellow tang thing, and you want schools, that's what I'd do.
Also, the small green chromis damsels school quite nicely, a smallish school of 7-9 would be very pretty, with a small school of 5 yellow tangs, then a few other individuals. Then, a peaceful angel, foxface, cardinals or squirrelfish...man, there is SO much you could do with a whole 450 gallons! (Not all at once, of course, and not everything that's flashing through my mind...) :mrgreen:
No, seriously, if you want schooling fish then get a whole school of baby yellow tangs! Actually, lots of tangs will school, but since you're already doing the yellow tang thing, and you want schools, that's what I'd do.
Also, the small green chromis damsels school quite nicely, a smallish school of 7-9 would be very pretty, with a small school of 5 yellow tangs, then a few other individuals. Then, a peaceful angel, foxface, cardinals or squirrelfish...man, there is SO much you could do with a whole 450 gallons! (Not all at once, of course, and not everything that's flashing through my mind...) :mrgreen:
Well...Keep the yellow numbers lower, make sure you get all juvenile fish, and I don't think there would be TOO much of a problem. Also, if you're using a sump, that will increase water volume to help you deal with the "Poop-machines" (and Naso's ain't NUTHIN' if they ain't poop-machines!)
low light corals with inverts...I would like to go towards more aggressive fish, but I think on a tank that size it is best to have inverts to take care of the algae. That would be a lot of algae glass cleaning if the tank ever had an outbreak.wombat":3jo7t5z7 said:
They may eat my corals.My experience with the larger angels is that they really like to pick at the open brain type corals (scolymia, etc) but will generally leave SPS and other LPS's such as torch/hammer corals alone. The ones that I have tried also seem to like aptasia which is a good thing. I have a 500 g tank and the two "show stopper" fish which everyone always notice first are the vlamingi tang (mine is about 10") and my crosshatch trigger (8") Some other cool fish which I have, and would suggest are a harlequin tusk, dwarf golden moray, and lineatus tang (looks like a sohal. but doesn't get quite as big) Good luck! As a side note, if you plan to attemp acroporas and other rapidly growing SPS, formulate a good plan now to keep your calcium and carbonate hardness values up. I go through calcium reactor media, kalkwasser and B-ionic by the ton.
i cant remember the name of them but theres these little stripey black and white Goby looking dudes that school, they have yellow on their heads, but the name escapes me. Either that or fire fish, a school of them would rock. Heinochius Dephrites will also school, but make sure its not Heinochius Accuminatus, cuz they eat corals, or is it the other way arround. :roll:
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