New Tank

[Aquai]

Ok, so tommorrow i should be getting my new 30Gal tank, i'm going to make it a reef tank but i was considering stocking options...

Atm fish-wise i was thinking:
Pair of juvenille clowns (from my nano)
Firefish (or maybe two later on)
Flame Angel or Orange Line Angel
Mandarin (that takes frozen, quite a few around here)
Goby and shrimp pair
(I may take the firefish and clowns from my nano initially, but not sure yet, may try some B/W clowns...)

Invert wise:
Pistol Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
2 Peppermint Shrimp
10 to 20 Hermits
5 Astreas Snails
Feather Dusters
Crab (any idea what sorts?)
Maybe eventually an anenome (if i can get it right)

Corals i'd like to keep:
Zoos
Xenia
Mushrooms
Leather

Obviously i'll have to take my time over stocking, probably will take about 4 months to get to max stock but the other thing i was wondering about, and i'll know you'll all advise against, but i was going to try getting a young porcupine puffer and trying to see if i can keep it reef safe till it gets to large...

Basically i wanted to know what you all thought of my livestock choices, and if anyone had any other fish they'd recommend?

Edit: BTW - I intend to get roughly 15Kg + of live rock in the tank, probably more like 25 by end, depending on volume of it...

 

[Anonymous]

i would skip the angels - potential nippers, and the manderin - too small a tank will starve to death.....
i would skip the pepermints too - can become polyp eaters sexies, blood, and skunks are better choices
crabs are always risky but sallys, emeralds, and porcelins are your best options
corals - shrooms and zoas are always great choices, leathers are very hardy try a yellow figi for color, and add kenya tree or other softy, and maybe an LPS or two like faviads, mussids, or fungiads, and a candy is always a good choice for any tank. branching euphiads (ie torch, hammer, frogspawn) can also be included in a 30 if space is allowed for them - make sure you run carbon when you do a mixed garden reef to avoid allelopathic chemicals
of course JMO

 

[Aquai]

Hmmm, i think i'll add the angel last in that case, if at all. Thanks for the advice has heard they were clam nippers....
Hmm, i wonder if the peppermint in my nano is why my polyp looks a little weird then today, thanks for this info again, i'll see if i can find sexies, had trouble finding any for my nano for some reason...
Mandarins again, i had one in my nano, which ate live brine, pellets, frozen foods reguarly, and they seem to be quite available around here, but that won't be for a while yet...
Crabs, thanks for that, that's what i needed to know. What about anenome crabs?...
Corals, hmmm, kenya tree seems like a good idea, plate corals? Hammers are nice as well...
O, another thing i'd potentially like to get is a Clam so is there any problems forseeable yet with this?

 

[reefman23]

As far as the clam goes, you didnt list your lighting options. If you want a clam, wait AT LEAST 6 months after the tank has stabilized, and get 2x150 watt MH if the tank is longer than 30 inches.

Jesse

 

[Aquai]

Erm, lighting is going to be around 6W per gallon (at least) is the plan as i'm modding the hood myself this is quite susceptible to change atm... And i was aware of the maturity issues...
Thanks
Aquai