stocking questions??

Black Phantom · #1 09-27-2011, 03:03 AM

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 · #2 09-27-2011, 03:31 AM

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 · #3 09-27-2011, 03:33 AM

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 · #4 09-27-2011, 04:53 AM

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 · #5 09-27-2011, 12:08 PM

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.

Gripenfelter · #6 09-27-2011, 03:48 PM

I have a Niger Trigger. He doesn't touch the shrimp I have in the tank but if I add anything new it's gone within 30 secs.

Gripenfelter · #7 09-27-2011, 03:56 PM

When adding new fish always put mirrors up against the sides of the tank and add fish at night. Leave the mirrors up for at least 12 hrs. The fish will attack their own reflection and ignore new additions to the tank.

I've done this several times with tangs and angelfish with great success.