Stocking My 125

My 125 gallon reef has:


200 lbs live rock

150 lbs live sand


PH 8.2

Gravity 1.024

Ammonia 0

Nitrite 0

Nitrates 10 ppm and dropping

PH 8.3


Moon Coral

Torch Coral

Green Mushrooms

Hammer Coral

Hybrid Frogspawn


2 Yellowtailed Blue Damsels

1 Dragon Goby

1 Yellowheaded Sleeper Goby


300 Gallon rated Pro-Clear Wet/Dry with skimmer filled with live rock

20 Gallon Refugium with Chaeto, Halimeda, and Caulerpa


After a poorly informed decision to start with Damsels I have all but 2
out of the tank. I took all of my rock work out and still 2 of them
lived in the rock out of water for 15 minutes. They are there to stay.


I want to start stocking the tank with new fish. The list follows in
order of addition, keeping in mind a 2 week interval between additions.


6 Green Chromis


4 Percula Clowns

1 Mandarin Dragonnet ( I have taken steps to ensure feeding. Lots of
pods on the rock at night. Arcti-Pods to supplement and starting to
produce my own phyto and pods at home. Been feeding DT's to the tank
for months)


2 Royal Gammas


1 Purple Tang


What are your opinions?

 

Thanks, my main concern was the Damsels with the Clowns. My hope is that having the clowns outsize the Damsels and in greater numbers, will keep the Damsels in line.

 

Thanks guys. I've got time on my hands, so I may just do 2 percula clowns and research another species. Any suggestions? If I go two pair, I like the Black Clowns, but I'll have to read up on them.

 

Thanks again for the advice. The Chromis are in the tank now and aside from a tense 1st night, they have been able to keep the Damsels down and the tank has been peaceful. I expect another brief turf war in a couple of weeks when the clowns go in. I'm going to use that distraction to get the Mandarin into the rocks.