150g FOWLR- LARGE LOAD BEWARE

[Eclipse]

So I have had this tank up and running since the January, I admit I have added all the fish that I wanted a little quickly, and it is on the verge of being labeled "over-stocked" depending on who you ask. I do a 5 gallon PWC twice a week every week, and scrub down anything I don't think looks good on a daily basis. The pics I will be showing are not that great because the flash is dumb and some of the fish wont stay still when I tell them too......

Stock:
1- Stars and Stripes Puffer
1- Harlequin Tusk
1- Red Corris Wrasse
1- Imperator Angel
1- Queen Angel
1- Zebra Moray Eel
1- Foxface Lo
1- Bird-Nose Wrasse
1- Niger Trigger

I about a year I will be getting another house and leaving this tank where it is right now, but don't worry i'm not leaving the fish...at that point I will likely upgrade to atleast a 400 gallon, if I feel the fish I have are stressed/unhappy. Right now they are all doing great, with the exception of the Foxface, Zebra Eel and Red Corris Wrasse they all eat out of my hand. They all get along great (i watch them constantly), including the two angels that "aren't suppose to."

Any questions or comments are welcome. Also on a side note, with the exception of the Zebra eel and Puffer all the fish are medium to small in size.

Here are the pics:

 

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[Bsixxx]

wasnt much of a load
but nice fish


spoke too soon
lol

great fish

 

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[Max]

you are right you are wayyyyyy over stocked. You also have a very large sand grain substrate it's ghastly thing you could ever have in your tank. It will catch all the crap, rotten food etc. that your fish can throw at it and keep it there forever! The little critters that should be living in your sand bed and eating the detritus can't move through large particle substrate very well at all. It also won't compact enough to form an anoxic layer to foster bacterial growth. I would loose it asap remove it all at once but, keep a couple of bags of it in your tank until your live rock's bacterial population can grow enough to avoid a mini cycle.

With that many large preds I would probably go with a bare bottom tank in order make it easier to keep tidy. Either that or sand grains no larger than a grain of sugar.

Now to the fish
I'm not sure that a 400 will be large enough for all of your fish and you'll likely have some compatability issues as well
1- Stars and Stripes Puffer "Hispid Puffer" more common name dog faced puffer . Don't get any other members of the puffer family if you want to keep both of them. They are usually peaceful unless and oportunity for a good easy feed comes along then they have been known to take large bites out of tank mates,"not common though I wouldn't worry." I'd assume from your current fish you list that you don't want any inverts either . Gets about a foot long
1- Harlequin Tusk this is a peacful guys shouldn't bother anyone else . Gets about 9 inches or so long
1- Red Corris Wrasse- When they are mature they can be monsters in their own right. They are often highly aggressive after they reach adult size "1ft or so" I wouldn't be surprised if it will start picking on it's tank mates and I'd keep a close eye on this one mate.
1- Imperator Angel you shouldn't have any problems with this one if it will get along with your queen. Also around a foot long
1- Queen Angel hard to keep alive sometimes need to keep your params very good also needs a good variety of foods gets about 1.5 feet long
1- Zebra Moray Eel peaceful guy a bit shy needs plenty of hiding spots and good water quality
1- Foxface Lo
1- Bird-Nose Wrasse Also about a foot long pretty peaceful you shouldn't have any issues with yours except maybe for the last fish on your list.
1- Niger Trigger This is one of the smartest most aggressive fish out there. I've seen them totally dominate even large tanks by killing everything else in there. I would so keep an eye on this one. Not, saying that yours will go rouge for sure but, it's the most likely to on your list. One day another fish may get too close or irritate it and it will take a bite and that will be all she wrote. Again I'm not saying it will but, is sure does make me nervous to see it in your tank. Also will get about a foot long.
hth
Max

 

[Eclipse]

Hmm i'm not sure that I agree with the large particle substrate comment. The substrate is actually very fine. Maybe what you are seeing is the chewed up pieces of clam and LR that has broken off. Honestly it is some of the finest particles I could come across without making it complete powder.

Also like stated before, by the time the fish grow up I will have a new house and a new house for them. So no worries on the over-stocked part.

 

[Max]

Sorry, mate it was hard to tell and I really posted that before I was ready lol if you want to give it another read I tried to say a bit about your fish ! looks really sweet though!