How many fish do you have ???

[Tarasco]

Originally Posted by cheeks69

BTW Tarasco how does the Banded pipefish do with it's tankmates ? Is it easily intimidated ? That's a real cool fish.

The pipefish is a fairly recent addition. I haven't been feeding the tank that much but I've noticed that my Carpenter wrasse was getting really fat. I took a closer look and noticed that the pod population is going nuts. I'd seen the pipefish in the LFS for the past two months, they said that they hadn't really been feeding it, but that it just eats pods. So I bought it.

It's doing all right so far. It will it cyclop-eeze but that's about it. Actually, I was hoping that it would explore more of the tank, but it just sits in the front hovering most of the time. It'll occasionally go back in a cave but that's about as far as it goes. Not intimidated by the other fish (the gramma and wrasse go at it every once in a while). It's only been a week, hopefully it'll get a little more active.

[DPdsny]

lets see if we cant get this one rolling again

In my 75 I have
4- Green Chromis
2- Pajama Cardinals
1- Blue Damsel ( had him 3 years, nice and calm eats food from my hand)
70-80 lbs of live rock

[BigReepher]

I know have 3 green chromis in my 75G.
My fish wish list is:
3 green chromis
3 bartlett anthias
1 lawnmower blenny or a flame hawkfish
1 powder brown tang (a.japonicus) or a magnificent rabbitfish

[corvettephreek]

in my 2.5 USG I have:

1 Mexican blue Leg hermit
1 True Perc. baby

In my 20L I have:

1 Skunk cleaner shrimp
1 Peppermint shrimp
1 Emerald Crab
1 Mexican Blue Leg hermit
3 turbo Snails
1 Sea Hare
2 True Percula clowns

I listed the crabs and shrimp because they poop too.

[Newt]

Update of my 75g stocking list:
2x True Percula Clowns- went in tank 6/10/05
1x Rainfords Goby- in tank on 6/28/05
4x Lyretail Anthias
1x Swallowtail Angel
1x Kole Tang
and....possibly 1x Whitecheek Tang or a Powder Blue Tang.....

[tx29fan]

My 150 72x18x29
200 lbs live rock
(1) percula clown
(2) six line wrasse
(3) yellowtail blue damsel
(4) royal gramma
(5) male zebra angel
(6) female zebra angel

and a green chromis currently living in the left overflow..lol (apparently these fish are jumpers. 2 jumped completely out of the tank)

[Warnberg]

I'm still in the process of stocking myself.... but currently I have

2 Tank Raised Ocellaris Clowns
1 Regal Tang
1 6 line wrasse

Clean up crew consists of:
20 mexiacan turbo's
7 peppermint shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
10 astrea snails
5 scarlet hermits
1 brittle star
12 small turbo snails

I also have a sabe anemone

There is about 100 lbs of live rock and 120 lbs of base rock, 120 lbs of arragonite (fine) sand and 40 lbs of course arragonite and about 40 lbs of fine sand from established tank (so live sand)

There are also 9 differnat Zoanthid colonies in the tank

See tank size below

[cheeks69]

what was the determining factor in deciding on that particular # of fish??? Was it tank size, filtration, swimming room etc.

[SueT]

In my 120g sps/clam tank I have the following:
2 green chromis{from cycling the tank in 1998}
1 gold stripe maroon clown{moved from the 180g when it was sold}
1 copperband butterfly{also moved from the 180g and has been with me for 5 1/2 yrs.}
1 tomini tang
1 genicanthus semifasciatus
1 false lemonpeel centropyge angel{going on 7 years}
1 foxface
1 sixline wrasse

The tank has lots of movement with plenty of swimming in front of rock, behind rock and through the rock. No more fish for now as everyone gets along and are happy.

Corals are growing great as well as my clams.

[reefjitsu]

It seems like I remember the guy who owns the tank back in post #22 getting flamed pretty severely for not only the amount of fish but also for his choice of fish. He has some pretty hard to keep stuff. Usually when I see a tank that looks like that I think that person just has alot of money and just buys/replaces as needed or desired. It seems like I remember him defending himself pretty well but he never did really answer how he was able to keep that many fish or how he was able to keep the rare ones.

For myself I have a 30 gallon fowlr with a cocoa damnsel and a neon goby. I also have a 40ish gallon hex reef tank with a cherub angel, rainford's goby, and an engineer goby. I actually feel bad because I consider both tanks to be grossly overstocked. I wish I didn't have the engineer goby but he is a refugee from years ago when I had a bigger tank and I couldn't find it another home. He does seem content though. The upside of it is my guilt about overstocking drives me to stay on top of the maintenance. The older I get and the more I observe fish in the wild the less I able to convince myself that keeping marine fish is alright. I will never own another damnsel after this one because they keep such large territories in the wild. I never have nor will I ever own a tang. IMO, even public aquariums do not provide them with enough room.
So getting off my soapbox and returning to the point of the thread. Why did I pick the fish I have? I am in love with the cherubs and rainford's. I did not choose the cocoa damsel, he was just destroying a friends reef and rather than watch him get flushed, I gave him a home. The neon goby is just cool and was supposed to be in my reef but he wouldn't stop irritating my clam so he had to go. I really feel I chose poorly on the engineer goby now, but when I originally bought it I chose it because I really wanted an eel but an eel wouldn't cohabitate with some of the other stuff I had. The engineer was the next best choice. So I have 5 fish in two tanks and I chose to stop at that number because of concerns of not providing enough room.

[blue_eyes53813]

In my 265 Gallon I have 1 yellow tang, 1 blue tang,1 kole tang, 4 anthias, coral beauty, 1 maroon stripe clown , 1 nemo, 6 very easy going damsels, 1 mandarin, 1 twin spot hog fish, 1 makniels (sp) assessor.1 6 line wrasse, and 1 starry blenny. I think that is it, Might have forgotten onw or two.

[cheeks69]

IME fish is what really got me hooked in the Hobby, it's been very difficult to convince myself though the years not to overstock my tanks and to keep my bioload reasonable.

[Reelheel]

In my 180g mixed reef:

1 x Sm. Foxface Rabbitfish
1 x Tiny Regal Tang
1 x Flame Hawkfish
1 x Longnose Hawkfish
2 x False Perc Clowns
1 x Copperbanded Butterfly
1 x Male Bimaculatus Anthias
2 x Female Bimaculatus Anthias
1 x Sixline Wrasse
1 x Canary Fang Blenny
1 x Royal Gramma

I guess that makes 13 total...I chose my fish for a number of reasons; here are some things I think about when planning for fish:

Hardiness (can I keep it alive?)
Compatability - aggressive/territorial?
Color - mix it up (one fish two fish red fish blue fish)
"Personality" - how can you not love a flame hawk?
Suitability in Reef - I've got lots of corals/inverts too
SIZE - smaller IS better in my opinion/experience LOL
Territorial tendencies (free swimming/perching/bottom dweller/suspended?)
Personal Prior Experiences and/or published info

These aren't in particular order, but all are things I definitely think about before making a stocking decision.

[Reelheel]

Oh yeah, I also have a 125g prop system with a purple tang and a brazilian gramma, a 40g prop system with a maroon clown, and my new 260g SPS prop tank houses a doliatus rabbitfish.

[Evelyn]

Have a 55g est. 6/23/05 with 51# live rock. I've just completed stocking with the following happy campers:

3 Blue Green Chromis - 6/25/05
1 Lawnmower Blenny - 7/21/05
2 Ocellaris Clownfish - 7/23/05
1 Peppermint Shrimp - 7/23/05
1 Yellowtail Blue Damsel - 10/18/05
1 Eibl's Angelfish - 1/11/06
1 Turbo Snail, Blue Legged Hermits
3 small soft corals: Mushroom, Green-Star Polyps, Brown Button Polyps
Misc. Hitchhikers - Baby Brittlestars, Starfish, Sponges, Britstleworm