Newbie stocking question

[Enigma]

One of the threads on Nano Reef is basically my fish stocking bible for small systems. You only really need to read the first post. It will give you plenty of fish ideas, and you can research care and compatibility from there. Some of it may be a bit controversial to many people, especially those who arern't experienced with small reef tanks.

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/inde...howtopic=74703

[RenHoek104]

Thanks Mika and Enigma for the quick replies.

I took a look at the recommendations and found the orange lined cardinalfish interesting because of its relationship with the longspined urchin. They seem to stay small and might be a good choice. For the wrasses, i like the yellow banded possum, tanaka and white banded possum. I'll only pick one of course.

I also looked at the orange spotted goby. They seem small enough and should be a great addition along with a tiger shrimp.

However, would a longspined urchin fit in my tank? As you can imagine I'm looking for synergy. I love how saltwater creatures work together. The idea of an urchin and cardinalfish is very appealing.

I'm also worried about the clowns and gudgeon. My LFS said it would be a bad idea, and yet I'm getting mixed messages from the internet.

My biggest challenge will be to reduce my fish list and find a store in the Quebec City region that can find my selected fish. Granted, in a perfect world I could find tank bred fish.

What a grest hobby!

Ren

[fishytime]

longspine urchins CAN get to be the size of a basketball....realistically they often parish before they reach that size in our aquariums....one would probably at some point need to be re-homed in a tank your size....fortunately they arent that hard to catch.....

I recommend these to everyone with a smaller tank so I might sound like a broken record but......I love assessors....I have both a yellow and a blue....they stay small, are pretty and are very mild tempered

[RenHoek104]

Hey fishytime,

The assessors look very cool, but my budget won't allow for a $100 fish . However, I do love your setup. Ecotech, Bubble King and Tunze. I've tasted the joy of Tunze with my ATO and can't wait to use Ecotech products with their software. Right now I'm using low to medium range products and I've had my share of problems so far. For example, I bought the only Hydor Smart Wave that doesn't work. Not to mention one of my pumps would start in reverse fifty percent of the time when hooked up to the working Smart Wave channel. Anyways, I'll stop hijacking my own thread.

Ren

[mrhasan]

Sorry to hitchhike :$

But do they add much of a bioload to the system? If not, I might think of adding it to my 20long system (with clown + firefish + sixline)

[RenHoek104]

You talking about the gudgeons or the assessors?