TheCanuck;4122852; said:
you understand dragon wrasses get larger than 14 inches correct?
The sand is fine..
I don't understand your stocking, you should look up each species you are listing and look up the min tank size. Then do a google search of how many can go togther in a specific area. Such as freshwater fish... 1 55 gallon for 1 oscar and 100gallons for 2..... some Clowns can reach up to 7-8 inchs. It sounds like you have not done any research at all and just want to throw together a salt tank. Don't cut corners, otherwise your budget will be 3x the amount it should have been in the first place doing things correctly
I wouldn't have even wasted time setting up a 20 gallon, if you want fish in it. You need a 125 atleast for all the fish you listed
learning the compatability of fish is good too. I wouldn't put such delicate fish such as firefish with a clownfish( in a 20). Sorry but little "nemo" doesnt stay small and will kick some ass. Including your paycheck
LOL at mandrin goby. Man you gotta do some research. Those are near impossible to keep alive and require a tank of atleast 5years plus experience. My lfs can't even keep them alive. You would need pods to feed them, you understand you can't even feed them right? your tank has to grow their food. O boy you have some reading to do, and some cash saving.
But if you must do something now, i would recomend spending 100-200$ on a mated pair of clowns(most clowns at the store will kill each other if there are just two and they are not male and female, and not idiot there will know the difference)and putting them ONLY in the tank
Or buy 4 dartfish call it a tank.
i was told the dragon wrasse wouldn't get over 4", clowns at 3.5" for a max(that was after some looking around)...dwarf flame angels i was told top out at 4" i saw alot of my info from liveaquaria...the wrasse was from the lfs and they said that it would top out at that (i know you should take their info with a grain of salt)...they have a mated pair of true ocellaris clowns from a drop off/trade in...i know the guy that had them and he has has a spawn with them...the manderan golby at this lfs has been there for a year or so and it is the same one...
i have been doing some research and i haven't bought any fish yet and i wont till i am done researching...i am planing on changing my 55gal over to salt after my sa lung and fire eel are out of it...
i never follow any of the freshwater rules and make my own with high success...i have been doing fresh all my life, but never done any salt...my kids want 'nemo' and that is my leaverage for the switch...the mantis shrimp i have looked up and they wouldn't work i now know for this set up...
i am looking at fish combatibility charts and min tank sizes with my fish selections...i may have to just do the clowns and wait for the other tank to do more...
i looked at the mins for everything but the wrasse as i just saw that and was told 4"...i read that dart fish do best in small groups and a 20gal was the min tank...clowns i read that you can mix with caution and the min tank was 20gals...flame angles were mixable with clowns and min tank of 30gals...
most of the info i have is from liveaquaria as that is what comes up in most of my searches...