au01st

2 Ocellaris Clownfish
1 Purple Firefish
1 Chalk Bass
1 Powder Brown Tang
1 Kaudern's Cardinalfish
1 Potter's Angelfish
1 Long Fin Fairy Wrasse
1 Green Mandarin

These are the fish I'm interested in, and this is the order I was planning to add them. I also plan to have some soft corals, hard corals, polyps, mushrooms, etc. I know the Mandarin needs live copepods to eat and he won't be added until next summer at the earliest. I plan to have a refugium on the back of the tank as well, to grow copepods.

The tank will have 100-120lbs of live rock, 70-80lbs of live sand. 4x54 T5 with 2 10,000k and 2 Actinic. 2 Hydor Koralia 3 pumps at 850gph along with another 500gph flow from the 20gallon sump.

How many snails/hermit crabs/shrimp should I have in a setup this size? I was thinking about 25 snails (not sure which kind yet) and 5-10 Scarlet hermits, along with 1-2 shrimp.


Anything I'm overlooking?

agsansoo

Caution must be used when adding angels to a reef tank. All the rest are fine to me.

au01st

Yeah, it's a dwarf angel. I think it's the only one on LiveAquaria that says "with caution". I was really making sure that they'll have enough space and not kill each other. Any idea on how many crabs/snails/shrimp? I've seen estimates that say 1 crab per gallon, and others that say one per 5 gallons. Is the lighting good? Flow good?

agsansoo

25 snails to start is good. I don't like crabs in a reef tank. Too destructive as they grow larger. Some snails eat detritus, some eat algae. Try to get a mixture or both. Lighting depends on corals and depth of your tank. It's a little under power for SPS's. Sps's would need a 8 bulb fixture IMO. Flow is a good start.