I Need New Ideas For Stock!

M.A.F. · 10/15/2008, 08:10 PM

I am in the process of moving my tanks around and need new ideas for what to stock it with any Ideas?
I;m thinkig a large mix of everything, but you always see tanks that just look awesome and I want that What do I put in the ******* thing?

I owna pet store and pretty much have unlimited resources and access to anything but I can;t choose. Pleae Help!

areze · 10/15/2008, 08:14 PM

is this a reef tank? FO has alot more options.

if its reef, stock it with tangs, lots of really nice tangs. no tank is complete with out a pair of clownfish. and then fill it out with maybe a flasher wrasse, whatever else looks good in the catalog. magnificant of foxface rabbitfish... and so on

returnofsid · 10/15/2008, 08:24 PM

Before advising anything, we need to know a lot more information about what tank you're setting up. Size, type of tank, lighting.....etc

macronut · 10/15/2008, 09:09 PM

If it's a large tank 125 or higher you might consider anthias with a daily drip of live brine. They should be fat and happy as they like to eat constantly. Add a school of chromis too.

Why not have a biotope tank of a specific geographical area and stock with only those fish corals from that specific region. Around the fiji islands, marshall islands the sky is the limit.

Maybe a display of caribbean reef fish with florida rock, the only corals you could put in would come with the rock, unless you add ricordia. A nice blue hamlet, chalk bass or swissguard basslet (one or the other of the basslets) would be nice, or ditch the hamlet and add some green striped gobies that are tank raised, nice neon goby, masked gobies, yellowhead jawfish, or dusky jawfish, a school of blue caribbean chromis (they are harder to keep than the blue/green chromis you normally see). Red serpent stars, a blue atlantic tang.

Maybe a very large tank with subdued lighting and some nice squirrel fish, sponge, with plenty of overhangs and caves.

Here are some nice fish selections:

Purple firefish (Indo-Pacific), Nemateleotris decora
Scissortail Dartfish (Indo-Pacific), Ptereleotris evides
Yellow assesor Assessor flavissimus or Blue Assessor Assessor macneilli(Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia)
Blackcap Basslet (Caribbean) Gramma melacara
Cherub Angelfish (Caribbean) Centropyge argi
Black Spot Angel (Indo-Pacific) Genicanthus melanospilos
Majestic Angel (Indo-Australian Archipelago) Pomacanthus navarchus
Blue Chromis (Caribbean) Chromis cyanea
Blue Green Chromis (Indo-Pacific) Chromis virdis
Pixy Hawkfish (Indo=Pacific, Easter Pacific, Red Sea) Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus
Swallowtail Hawkfish (Indo-Pacific), Cyprinocirrhites polyactis
Atlantic Blue Tang (Caribbean), Acanthurus coerules (gets large 13")
Hawaiian Bristletooth (Central Pacific) Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis

Red Serpent Star (Caribbean) Ophioderma squamosissimus
Pederson's Commensal Shrimp (Caribbean, Tropical Western Atlantic) Periclimenes pedersoni (will be eaten by some larger fishes.
Sexy shrimp (Cicumtropical) Thor ambolnensis

Hope I didn't get carried away.

M.A.F. · 10/16/2008, 08:45 AM

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Originally posted by M.A.F.
I am in the process of moving my tanks around and need new ideas for what to stock it with any Ideas?
I;m thinkig a large mix of everything, but you always see tanks that just look awesome and I want that What do I put in the ******* thing?

I owna pet store and pretty much have unlimited resources and access to anything but I can;t choose. Pleae Help!

I've got 1000 watts of @0k lighting 2 5000 watt pendants on a dual ballast, refugium w/ 1300gph pump and I ordered a d and d marine protein skimmer. in there now is a yellow tang, panther grouper, 8 in tomato or cinamon baby cinamon clown snowflake moray, damsel 4 trpe and 15 good sized cabbage leathers, pearl coral hammer coral, small acro tonga 2 green star polyps one metallic, hydnophora, several zoos mush mush mush, 30 + green pimple and then 50+ regu;ar red,pom pom frag Xenia frag, buch of zoos lots o frock
young coral.
In my other FO tank Ive got an orange frog fish, chainlink Large Large Gold Stripe Maroon, ku pang Damsels and a Remora
3o LBs of rock at least.

10/15/2008, 08:10 PM	#1
M.A.F. Moved On Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lexington,KY Posts: 26	I Need New Ideas For Stock! I am in the process of moving my tanks around and need new ideas for what to stock it with any Ideas? I;m thinkig a large mix of everything, but you always see tanks that just look awesome and I want that What do I put in the ******* thing? I owna pet store and pretty much have unlimited resources and access to anything but I can;t choose. Pleae Help!

10/15/2008, 08:14 PM	#2
areze Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,048	is this a reef tank? FO has alot more options. if its reef, stock it with tangs, lots of really nice tangs. no tank is complete with out a pair of clownfish. and then fill it out with maybe a flasher wrasse, whatever else looks good in the catalog. magnificant of foxface rabbitfish... and so on __________________ current tanks:240g of wallet draining capacity.

10/15/2008, 08:24 PM	#3
returnofsid Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 3,852	Before advising anything, we need to know a lot more information about what tank you're setting up. Size, type of tank, lighting.....etc

10/15/2008, 09:09 PM	#4
macronut Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Indianapolis IN Posts: 405	If it's a large tank 125 or higher you might consider anthias with a daily drip of live brine. They should be fat and happy as they like to eat constantly. Add a school of chromis too. Why not have a biotope tank of a specific geographical area and stock with only those fish corals from that specific region. Around the fiji islands, marshall islands the sky is the limit. Maybe a display of caribbean reef fish with florida rock, the only corals you could put in would come with the rock, unless you add ricordia. A nice blue hamlet, chalk bass or swissguard basslet (one or the other of the basslets) would be nice, or ditch the hamlet and add some green striped gobies that are tank raised, nice neon goby, masked gobies, yellowhead jawfish, or dusky jawfish, a school of blue caribbean chromis (they are harder to keep than the blue/green chromis you normally see). Red serpent stars, a blue atlantic tang. Maybe a very large tank with subdued lighting and some nice squirrel fish, sponge, with plenty of overhangs and caves. Here are some nice fish selections: Purple firefish (Indo-Pacific), Nemateleotris decora Scissortail Dartfish (Indo-Pacific), Ptereleotris evides Yellow assesor Assessor flavissimus or Blue Assessor Assessor macneilli(Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia) Blackcap Basslet (Caribbean) Gramma melacara Cherub Angelfish (Caribbean) Centropyge argi Black Spot Angel (Indo-Pacific) Genicanthus melanospilos Majestic Angel (Indo-Australian Archipelago) Pomacanthus navarchus Blue Chromis (Caribbean) Chromis cyanea Blue Green Chromis (Indo-Pacific) Chromis virdis Pixy Hawkfish (Indo=Pacific, Easter Pacific, Red Sea) Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus Swallowtail Hawkfish (Indo-Pacific), Cyprinocirrhites polyactis Atlantic Blue Tang (Caribbean), Acanthurus coerules (gets large 13") Hawaiian Bristletooth (Central Pacific) Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis Red Serpent Star (Caribbean) Ophioderma squamosissimus Pederson's Commensal Shrimp (Caribbean, Tropical Western Atlantic) Periclimenes pedersoni (will be eaten by some larger fishes. Sexy shrimp (Cicumtropical) Thor ambolnensis Hope I didn't get carried away.