Newtankdude

If you don't want to go through worrying about how this fish will be, just get a Royal Gramma, they swim just like damsels and are about the same size, just less aggressive. Hopfully if you get one, the others will stay away from it's cave/ overhang or else it will chase it off. I would suggest waiting a day after you put the other fish in to put one of these in.

Howeyg

how about 2 ocellaris clownfish
1 purple firefish
1 bangai cardinal fish

Newtankdude

Lol, that should work.

Newtankdude

Post pics when it's set up.

Howeyg

Redtail Filefish- sounds like a sound fish to get..low maintenance,peaceful and will fit in my tank

i think this is the list of fish i likely to get

: 2 false occelaris clownfish
1 Purplefire fish
3 Blue/green chromis
1 bangai cardinal fish
1 Saddle valentini puffer

Inverts i may get

: 1 Marble Sea Star
1 Cleaner Shrimp
1 blue leg hermit crab


i will get 22 lbs of fiji live rock and possibly 14lbs of live sand my tank will not be filled for a while seeing as i am moving house hopefully i will
be able to move soon so i can get my aquarium ready to cycle

one last question once i cycle my tank will it need cycling again and with invertebrates does it still mean i have to change the water by 10% every week?

Newtankdude

You only need to cycle a tank once, unless you drain all the water and take everything out. You still need to do waterchanges because of Nitrites, Nitrates, ammonia, pH, Alk, and salinity. Inverts can't take these out, they accually help make more, plants might help control it. I'm not sure about the puffer, how big does it get?

Newtankdude

I'm not sure about the puffer, this site says that it might mess with inverts. The size might be fine, but it says its not reef conpatible, which means you are either risking or are crazy to get coral, inverts, all that stuff.

Howeyg

so no puffers

as part of my cleaner crew i will get marble sea star cleaner shrimp some nassarius snails and some turbo snails will live rock have the same effect as having more plants? or should i buy some saltwater plants

maybe a bi colour blenny to start off with instead of firefish.... i dont know

Newtankdude

I'm not sure about the rock thing, I have some Halimades in my tank, and they grew like crazy. The fish will eat halimades once in a while too. A cool looking shrimp is the fire shrimp.(allred with white spots) I've never had a marble sea star, But I'm sure thats fine, Turbo snails will help clean the glass and Nassarius snails stir the sand bed...what you have should be perfectly fine now, I think your ready to setup the tank.

Howeyg

just found out that the file fish was perfect except... it eats invertebrates so....

im considering a Flame Angel fish there only inches they eat flake food lke other fish and they arent to aggressive only to smaller fish , recommended i accimilate it last so every one has there own territory.... not sure