How many fish do you have?!

[aznt1217]

Hello All,

Just curious to know how many fish everybody has in their tanks and what size. I didn't realize I had so many until I wanted to buy 2 more this morning.

-72 Bow Front, 20 Sump.

-Skimmer Rated for a 160, Denitrator Rated for 125, 3 Bags of Chemipure Elite in a Phosban Reactor, Poly Filter, Purigen, and Chaeto.

Fish:
-5 Blue Green Chromis -- 1 for about 1 year, 4 about 6 months--all schooling and fine
-1 Used to be Yellow Watchman Goby-- 1.5 years
-1 Hippo Tang- 1.75 years
-1 Yellow Tang- 2 weeks
-1 Red Coris Wrasse- 6 months
-1 Clown Fairy Wrasse- 3 months
-1 Longfin Fairy Wrasse- 6 months
-1 Longnose Hawkfish- 6 months
-1 Flame Angel- 6 months
-1 Eibli Angel- 6 months
-4 Clownfish (2 are residents visiting from my office lol)- 2 years
-1 Bicolor Blenny- 1.5 years
-1 Purple Firefish- 6 months
-1 Red Firefish- 1.5 years

holy crap. lol

 

[chanman]

what? only 5 chromis? 10+ and you're set!

 

[jaa1456]

Damn that is one stocked up tank. I never had that many fish in a tank not even my 265. I had 5 fish in that tank and 4 in my 125. I currently have 4 in my 28, a paire of clowns, orange spot goby and a 6 line wrasse.

 

[topmav1]

While discussing fish are there any fish that are "Must Haves" in a reef or rather really good fish to have that do a certain "job" thats beneficial to a reef? I see all this Wrasse and Goby talk..

I have 2 onyx, I black and while perc, and a kole tang. Looking to add another tang...not sure which and a few smaller guys...

 

[jaa1456]

There are some fish that will help eat certain things in the tank. Tangs of course, sand sifting gobies, and most dwarf angels will pick at the rocks. The angels might nip at corals also. I noticed my clowns really don't do anything for the tank at all, except add different colors lol. A purple tamg would be nice but Kole tangs can become really aggresive towards new tangs. Be Careful with the new tang and make sure it is larger than the kole.

 

[aznt1217]

Well from my experience (and right now).

- My Yellow Tang has been eating whatever undesirable algae.
- My Bicolor Blenny picks at Algae on the glass and loosens it for me when I clean glass.
- The Red Coris Wrasse moves some of my crushed coral around which makes sure there's no bad build up and that there's movement in the substrate.
- The YWG does a pretty good job of keeping the sand clean.

The rest are pretty much just loafers

 

[DEL]

what skimmer are you using that is rated for a 225 and fits uinder the cabinet?? i have a 72 bow and iknow theres not that much room..

 

[aznt1217]

Woops my bad. It's rated for 160g! Octopus MSX Xtreme 160.

I am pretty sure you can fit the MSX200 in there.

 

[aznt1217]

I love how barely anybody put what fish they have!!!

 

[duke62]

50gallon.2 percs.2 cardinals,1sixline,1file.and a fish thats not supposed to be in there but i love it pink face wrasse.supposed to be aggressive and eat inverts but all he bothers is my snails.leaves my shrimp alone and hermits.very aggressive eater.

 

[chanman]

cause its like "hey come burglarize my house cause of all those fish."

5fish for me
-2clowns
-royal gramma
-firefire
-randalls goby?
ps i want more!@!

 

[aznt1217]

fire fire lol.

 

[jcolon2]

55 gallon w/ 2 false percula clowns, 1 Potter's Angel, 1 Bicolor Blenny, 2 chromis, and a Tri-color Anthias. However, I hope to eventually get rid of the anthias for a borbonius anthias, get a blue spotted jawfish, flashing chameleon tile fish, and add a Golden dwarf moray eel (I know it isn't a fish).

 

[KathyC]

hmmm, I haven't counted in a while..

Latin & common names...

In my 120:
Coris gaimard - Yellow tail coris rasse
Halichoeres marginatus - Dusky Wrasse
Zebrasoma xanthurum - Purple Tang
Synchiropus speldidus - Green Mandarin - male
Gramma lorero - Royal Gramma
Opistognathus ronesblatti - Bluespotted Jawfish
Cirrhilabrus jordani - Flame Wrasse - Male
Cirrhilabrus jordani - Flame wrasse - Female
Pteragogus cryptus - Cryptic Wrasse
Larabicus quarrilineatus - Cleaner wrasse
Cryptocentrus leptocephalus - Pinkspotted goby

 

[Awibrandy]

17 in my 155 reef - running under rated E-R rs80 skimmer for now.
Lamarck angelfish
Blue Hippo tang
Powder Blue tang
Marine Betta
Bengaii Cardinal
Ocellaris Clownfish
Saddleback Black Clownfish
African Radiant wrasse
Clown Fairy wrasse
Yellow Coris wrasse
Possum wrasse
Red wrasse
Christmas wrasse
Twin Spot Hogfish
African Golden Midas blenny
Lawnmower blenny
Female Green Manderin
Fire Fish
YWG

My 120 has 6 fish, and 2 eels - running a Turboflotor multi 1000 rated to 200 gallons.
Desjardini Sailfin tang
2 Clarkie clownfish
2 Pink Skunk clownfish
Six Line wrasse
Zebra Eel
Snowflake Eel

 

[NYreefNoob]

80G system, 5 clowns, m\f flame wrasse pair, 3" hippo, 2" red sea salfin, potters angel, pygmy angel, cleaner wrasse, leopard wrasse and a pair of yashi gobies and 1 other goby so 15 all together, i dont go by the number of fish, but by the size they are or will reach, both tangs once bigger will be gone though

 

[aznt1217]

Hmmm so you go by the size of the fish. Perhaps I have more room then...

 

[JimmyR1rider]

65G w/29G sump, bermuda aquatics 3c, 2 phos ban reactors- 1 carbon-1 phos-ban.

Pair of true percs, 2 bangaii cardinals, 2 firefish would like to get a coris wrasse also and possibly a yashehaza goby, pistol shrimp pair. But no more than that.

 

[Larissa]

We've got 75 gallons with a yellow tang, 2 cardinals, a blennie, a clown, and a mandarin. I almost forgot the mandarin, 'cause he hides a lot... sucks, 'cause he's gorgeous.

 

[duke62]

i would love some bottom dwelling fish but my carpet snatches them all