Stocking For 55 Gallon Reef

[eschaton]

My new 55 gallon is probably a month or more away from setup, but I think I have some good ideas here. I want to have a totally peaceful, reef-safe tank with almost all fish captive-bred.

1 Yellow Assessor (Captive-Bred)
1 Fangblenny - whatever species I can find (Captive-Bred)
Pair of Orchid Dottybacks (Captive-Bred)
Either 3 Flasher Wrasse or 3 Chalk Bass
1 Yellow Clown Goby (Captve Bred)
3 Green-Banded Gobies (Captive-Bred)
1 Cleaner Goby (Captive-Bred)

This comes out to around 28 inches of fish. Counting my sump volume I'll probably have 60-70 gallons of water (depending upon sump level).

I was interested in the following, but am leaning against

Dwarf Angels - Too aggressive, plus I want a Desera clam and don't want to risk its safety.
Royal Gramma - Aggressive at times from what I understand
Other Blennies - Too aggressive
Geometric "Hawkfish" - Can eat small shrimp (want sexies)
Sixline Wrasse - Can eat small shrimp
Evotia/Trimma gobies - cute as hell, but all wild-caught - can't excuse it when good captive-bred species are available.

Also, I'm willing to move up or down a bit on the stocking numbers. I chose a pair for the Pseudochromis and GBG because they're the two I think I'll have the most luck breeding. I'm hoping I can just plop the babies into the refugium and dose it with rotifers. If people think it's highly unlikely let me know.

 

[Lynden]

Sweet - no clownfish.

Looks fine to me, but don't let the fang blenny bite you. Also, don't be too afraid of buying wild-caught fish; of course choose captive bred specimens over them, but remember that small vertebrates are VERY capable of maintaining a good population even when moderately collected.

 

[eschaton]

Sweet - no clownfish.

Looks fine to me, but don't let the fang blenny bite you. Also, don't be too afraid of buying wild-caught fish; of course choose captive bred specimens over them, but remember that small vertebrates are VERY capable of maintaining a good population even when moderately collected.

I had a blackline once before - it was a great fish. My 20-gallon nano had a bad run in, where a "captive-bred" pair of yellow clown gobies gave the tank marine ich (making it highly unlikely they were captive-bred), and he went carpet surfing the day I was going home to treat him. The tank's been running invert only for awhile now and I'm going to move over the mature LR as I go.