25g stock discussion help

[mrhasan]

If you want hermits; get "true" scarlet hermits (not the typical maxican red legged one; these have solid red (no dots) with yellow eyes). Although a bit lazy but they are simply awesome! They even eat bryopsis which is a BIG BIG plus. And the least aggressive among hermits.

Snails, I would say astreas do a great work. Maxican turbos are lawnmowers are they can get pretty big. Mine also likes bryopsis.

Royal grammas are cool; don't put in any dottybacks!

Non of the fishes you have in mind will allow cleaners to go near them. But having them is fun; great personality

I hate urchins so my opinion would be biased: don't get them! No reason or anything! JUST don't get them!

Originally Posted by 91Atrac

so i have my custom drop off tank on the go ish and im trying to plan my stock more efficient. So far i have my cirrent clowns and yellow watchmen/green pistol pair.

I want to have cleaners to keep food and stuff clean so im going towards just blue and red leg hermits with some banded turbo snails. otherwise im not sure what else cuz id like to have something to help keep bristle worm size/population in control cuz i see i have lots in my tank and some pretty big and they sure arent a "sexy' think to see haha?

i will have a maxi mini nem and might get another so a sexy shrimp or 2 to host them.

I want another blenny as mine randomly died over night :/ or what else would be effective at chomping at rocks for algae? had crabs in mind but heard they can be the devil and take out fish so ive been sketch about getting any! starfish i dont think are an option cuz i want sponge coral and been told they love to eat sponge!


SO general idea is to keep a clown pair, blenny for algae control, hermits and snails for algae and extra food control, pistol and watchmen kind of act like sand sifters.


so cleaner shrimps? only cleaning option or i was thinking of 2 neon gobies

long spine cardinals for aw! cuz i never seen any and would be active swimmers and maybe a royal gramma.




so post up and let me know what you guys think. tank will be softies and lps but SOME sps too.

[ScubaSteve]

One word of advice: Just because you have space, doesn't mean you have to fill it all. A lower bioload can go a long way to keeping a successful tank, especially in the under 30g category. This mostly applies to fish.

Tailspot blennies are super awesome, as are Midas... though I'm not sure your tank would give enough space for a midas. Do some reading.

I echo the scarlet hermits. They're champs. I would nix the turbos. I always wished they had bigger mouths so that I would have something to punch every time they bulldozed my frags and popped corals off the rocks. I'd go with a strawberry top snail over the turbos any day.

Get a conch for your sand. It will quickly become your favourite critter.

Make a bit of a cave on your drop off face and get some overhang loving fish like blue or yellow assessors (they swim upside down!) or a royal or black cap gramma. You'll get more natural behaviours out of these fish with the right aquascape.

Stay away from any fish that needs a lot of swimming space as you don't really have it.

Wrasses stick to the rocks and some will mow down on your bristle worms. Read up on them.

Cleaner shrimp won't do much cleaning (they get lazy over time because they eat the food you feed the tank) but are super awesome. Get a pair and they'll have babies regularly. They also love overhangs and caves!