Stock for 25g mini reef?
 

Hey guys I was wondering about what to stick into my 25g nano so I thought that I would ask you guys about some good candidates for that small of a tank becuase i cant really think of any only 1 royal gramma,2 skunk clowns and some type of goby or blenny!? So if you have any ideas put them in no ideas are bad all ideas will be very helpful!

Thanks

Justin

Here's the best way to go about selecting livestock for a tank, IMO:

1. Search list of marine organisms on site such as liveaquaria.com

2. Choose all that catch your interest

3. Filter out your choice of organism.

4. Find compatibility in accordance to tankmates/ tank size.

You'll have to repeat 3 and 4 once in a while, and I find researching by yourself much better than asking people what you should keep. Reason being that fish are very subjective. Some people love Clowns but others don't want to keep cookie-cutter fish and would prefer something like a less common Goby of some sort.

25 gallons is fairly small, so you'll want to have 3 fish max, 4 if you're diligent in maintenance. A Royal Gramma is a good choice and gobies/blennies will definitely do well in a 25g.

Don't forget the reference library :wink:

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=22118

If you do a royal grama make sure he goes in last some of them can become agressive :mrgreen:

I have a tank approx. the same size.....and I do 25% - 30% water changes every weekend. Its a BB tank so I am the pooper scooper.
This is what I have in my tank.

2 clowns
1 goby
1 dottyback
1 firefish

Clean up crew

3 emerald crabs
3 red scarlet hermit crabs
1 squat lobster (hitchhiker i just found after 4 months)
2 cleaner shrimp
3 astrea snails
1 other snail...cant remember his name
a few bristle worms (hitchhikers)
a few feather worms

a shwack of corals

1 sea anemone (dont know the name....hitchhiker )

but i am the biggest asset to the cleaning...

Is it a good hitchhiker anemone? :)