what to stock my reef with

[prisoner1572]

i have three fish right now: two clowns, and a blenny, i plan on getting a blue tang, and bangaii cardinals,that would be about all the fish i would get, maybe a few more blennies or gobies.

what inverts, crabs, shrimp, snails, and the other ones like anemones, corals, urchins, feather dusters, can i put in the tank that would survive with each other and the fish i have. this has been my main frustration in setting my tank up. i had some live rock with tunicates and when i got the blenny he ate them! i don't want this to happen when i get other inverts.

i have a 125 gallon tank

 

[kidkameleon3]

do not get crabs, but like 1-2 blue or red legged.You'll thank me later.Dusters,mush,zooanthids (my fav) are all easy

let us know how it goes

 

[saltcreep1025]

as far as the corals go it depends on how much light you have. yep, you can get shrimp (stay away from coral banded shrimp), snails, crabs (i avoid anything w/ claws personally), conch, starfish, many many things. Those fish are all friendly towards inverts so you shouldn't have a problem.

The urchins can be a pain b/c they need glasses and end up knocking all of your rocks down.

Anemones are very hard to keep and ussually die within about 6 months from starvation... in the wild they are nearly immortal so i would just leave them there. If you want something that looks like one though get a long tentacled plate coral!

 

[specialk]

If your tank is acrylic I would not add any inverts to it. They can harm the acylic.



Kaye

 

[saltcreep1025]

really? ive never heard that. What kind of inverts are you talking about?

 

[specialk]

Oh I am talking about Urchins......lol.... thats what I meant....


Kaye