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Moonstream

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I am selling all but 2 of my fish (yellow wrasse and LMB) and starting my reef over. I am thinking the following for my stocklist, and wanted to make sure it sounded okay.
my LMB
my yellow wrasse
1 royal gramma
1 flame hawk (would a longnose be a safer bet with shrimp?)
1 tomato clown or 2 orange skunk clowns (worried about potential aggression)
trio of lyrtail anthias
Carribean blue tang

this tank will be a softy dominated tank with a few other types of corals (some LPS, very few SPS, some photosynthetic gorgs, some zoas, ect). the DT is BB but the fuge will have a 4" DSB and lots of cheato. I have an about 2.5-3" cleaner shrimp, and plan to get several feather dusters as well. with these fish be okay?
 

Moonstream

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I have considered other tangs (over, and over, and over, and over). I still cant decide. Ill probably just decide what I want depending on what the LFS has when I get there.

as for the tomato. the aggression is the only thing holding me back. I will probably end up going with a pair of pink or orange skunks.
 

Moonstream

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I am thinking about doing some kind of Genicanthus sp. angel instead of the tang. I am leaning towards G. watanabei because out of the three I most commonly see (G. meanospilus, G. lamarck's and G. watanabei) it is the only species I have not attempted for any length of time (my swallowtail died from stress, and I have decided to sell my Lamarck's for a few reasons).
 

Moonstream

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I think I am going to have the stocklist be something more like
LMB
yellow wrasse
royal gramma
2 pink skunk clowns
1 genicanthus sp. angel (probably a swallowtail angel)
2 pajama cardinals
1 yellow tail damsel (would a pair fit? or a trio?)
 

jhale

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if you want some smaller schooling fish there are some cardinals that will swim together.
I don't know the species off hand but I can find out if your interested.
 

greggnyce

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I used to have a watanabe in my old 90gl, system. They are great fish. I now have a potters angel, dwarf angels are awsome as long as they do not nip at the sps. The damsels are a nightmare to get out of a tank. I had to empty my entire tank to get one out, it would not go near the fish trap.
 

Moonstream

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YT damsels are smaller and more peaceful then most others, maxing out at about 2.5". I have asked owners of them, and have heard only one or two out of quite a few that had aggressive ones.

aaron23, I decided not to get the hawkfish.

jhale, I have considered getting both orange line and blue eye cardinals, but because the blue eyes ship poorly and I havnt been able to find any orange line locally, and both are expensive, I decided against them.

any one else?
 

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