fish

[nguyenma]

i was wondering what would happen if i introduce a dragon wrasse to my tank. my tank has 2 clowns, a mimic tang, mandarin, shrimp, snails, crabs.
i have a hammer coral, suncoral on top of an oyster, xenia,buttons and a sabae anemone.
would the dragon wrasse be ok?
Also how do i kill off some xenia? they are taking over my tank..

 

[reefsforme]

How big is your tank, and I can take some of your xenia off your hands, lol

 

[nguyenma]

14g tank. do you live in calgary? if you do ill be sure to give you some xenia for 10$ ahha

 

[reefsforme]

Unfortunatley no, but thanks anyways, and the answer is no. A dragon wrasse need at minimum of 125 gallons, it grows about a foot long. I think you have enough fish, you don't want to overpopulate, but if you really want to get another fish, i suggest looking at goby's.

 

[nguyenma]

Hey so my friend just bought a snokeflake eel. And it's pretty small maybe 2inches big. He asked me if he could leave it in my tank for a bit until he finished cycling his. I was wondering if it is reef coral and fish safe?

 

[HN1]

Definitely not fish safe. You may also want to rethink the tang and mandarin. The tang gets pretty big for a 14G tank and needs lateral swimming room. The mandarin should be in a larger, well established system. How long has this been set up?

 

[nguyenma]

So the eel is gonna attack my clowns and stuff? With the coral and anemone be ok? As for the tang I'm getting a 50 g tank in sept so that should be ok

 

[HN1]

Yes if it can catch them, it most likely will. Not sure about the nem and corals. It may disturb them.

 

[nguyenma]

Really the eel is only 2 inches and both my clowns are a lot bigger and pretty fast. The tang is pretty big so i don't think the eel will attack it. Is this the case for all the eels?

 

[severum mama]

None of those fish belong in a 14 gallon tank except for the clowns. It's just too small, unfortunately. A 50 gallon is still too small for any tang IMO, although there is some debate about that with smaller species of tangs.

 

[nguyenma]

I understand that those fish should not be in there that's why I'm getting a new tank so I can transfer them. The tanks should be fully cycle by sept