stocking questions??

[luvthereefer]

so recently i was given a 125 gallon tank complete with everything including fish.
They are a; one spot foxface
blue tang
sailfin tang
four stripe damselfish
cinnamon clownfish
niger triggerfish

the tank came with a bunch of base/live rock, but i think its just base rock with some coraline algae growing on it.
I plan on eventually going to live rock then inverts and corals.

but in the meantime i want to change my stock. I want to get rid of the tangs because they get too big, and the triggerfish isnt reef safe.

for example i was going to swap a tang for two young clownfish, would this be ok?? would the cinnamon be hostile? also would they nipped at by the larger fish?

is it safe to swap a large fish for two smaller ones, or would that upset the system??

or should i sell a fish...wait...then introduce new fish?

I really appreciate any awnsers you might have for me
thanxs in advance

[Black Phantom]

Swapping out larger fish for smaller usually isn't a problem. And your 125 is large enough that unless you go completely overboard you should be able to keep a good number of fish.
Live rock and base/live rock are pretty much the same. Once any "dead" rock is seeded it will eventually become live rock. Marco rock is a perfect example.
Just remember, when you add new rock to your system it will cycle and that's very hard on your livestock.

[reefwars]

i would only go with just the one pair of clowns and get rid of the cinnamon or try to pair the cinnamon,clowns dont like clowns they dont think their funny

[reefwars]

i also had a niger trigger in a reef had no problems minus being the bully around food lol alot of people have good results with them alot dont so its one of those take a chance fish and who knows

[Aquattro]

I've had a niger in my reef, he did well, other than moving frags around. I didn't have any cleaner shrimp, so not sure that would work. Currently I have 2 pairs of clowns in my 180, they all get along fine. 1 pair of percs, 1 of sebaes. The tank is also probably big enough for the tangs, unless you've got a ton of rock in there.

[ponokareefer]

Mixing clownfish is a big gamble and cinnamon clowns are one of the more aggressive type of clowns, so your chances of success are quite slim. Long term, it is likely that you would end up with one pair of clownfish once one pair starts to breed. I had previously had a pair of cinnamon's in with a pair of occelaris for probably 9 months, but then the cinnamon's showed signs of wanting to breed and attacked the occelaris out of the blue. I had to remove the occelaris as they were getting really beat up. The 2 types of clownfish that Aquattro has are less aggressive.