100 gallon fowlr with inverts stocking ideas

[Jolee0722]

Is this an okay stocking list for a 100 gallon saltwater tank or is it too much of a bioload? I intend to add 1-4 fish every month or so and the angels will come after a year or so:
2 ocellaris clownfish
4-5 orange or purple firefish (all the same color, just can't decide which one)
3 acares reef chromis (grow to be about 2 inches)
1 exquisite fairy wrasse
1 flame angel
1 multicolor angel
1 goldflake angel

 

[Jolee0722]

Really? No one?

 

[Sidman24]

Please wait at least 24 hours to bump. Someone will help you if they can. Thanks.

 

[Jolee0722]

Ok, it's just that I'm trying to figure out what size tanks to start with and I want to figure out soon so I can start making a list of supplies to get to build and create a saltwater tank. And once I have figured out what size tank to get, I can finish up my research on saltwater equipment.

 

[Jolee0722]

Come on guys. Someone please reply with an opinion.

 

[mr_X]

I would say that's a decent bio load. Not too much. What inverts will you be keeping?

 

[Jolee0722]

I'll probably be keeping a lot of cleaner type shtimp and a lot of snails too, but no crabs, including hermit crabs(I heard that they will eat snails). That's about it and maybe an anemone after a year or so.

 

[mr_X]

Just make sure there is food for whatever you put in there. In other words, don't add 30 snails if you don't have a bit of algae. All you will have in the end is 30 snail shells.
Yes, most hermits kill snails out of instinct. I once saw a hermit kill 3 snails and change his shell 3 times in 1 day.
That said you could get the tiny red leg reef hermits. They don't get very big. Not big enough to hijack a normal sized astrea snail anyway.

 

[Jolee0722]

Also, how many small fish like firefish do you think I could add? What about medium sized fish, like dwarf angels and wrasse?

 

[mr_X]

Well, if you want a fish that eats pods, I would skip the fairy wrasses. They will compete with anything else for the pod population. If you don't care about that, a pair (male and female) of flame wrasses would be nice. You like those expensive fish.....check them out.
I would keep 1 dwarf angel since they may be aggressive towards each other.
Firefish, you could add quite a few of. Half dozen if you really liked them.
All of this is contingent on an excellent filtration system of course.
Get a giant skimmer.

 

[Jolee0722]

Yes I was thinking of getting a reef octopus skimmer rated for 250 gallons. I have also read that if you set up your live rock in a way, then you can keep two dwarfs. So, I'm thinking maybe instead of one exquisite fairy wrasse I will get a pair and maybe one other small fish and that will be it. Would that be a decent bioload? Also, do you think this would be the max or I could add one or two more smaller fish?

 

[mr_X]

It totally depends on the fish, and a 100 gallon tank is not a huge tank. I don't think arranging the rock makes a bit of difference. When you feed all fish will be in the same spot anyway. I don't know what people are thinking when they write that stuff about arranging rocks and other nonsense. It's totally up to the fish. One guy could have 2 pigmy angels that get along fine, while you might get two, and they relentlessly attack each other.

 

[mr_X]

There are many fish you could get instead. How about something in the rabbit fish family, and/or one of the more docile triggers....Engineer gobies are cool too. The closest thing to an eel without the predation.

 

[Jolee0722]

I don't think a trigger will fit in my tank, but I have been looking at engineer goby. A mandarin is out of question now, but as you said, engineer goby are as close as you can get to an eel and personally, I really love goby because they look like eels but are easy to take care of and not predatory.