nonstophoops;4763995; said:
It doesn't look too bad in my opinion, but I would skip the damsels. They are very territorial and aggressive towards other fish.
Clownfish are damsels and have the same traits as other damsels. You could get 1 or a pair of these.
I would skip the Angelfish and Butterflyfish as they will eat many of the corals you would put in the tank. That is unless you get a reef safe pygmy angel, then it would be fine.
So skip the damsels and the butterfly and you can do it if you buy/make very good filtration. This would include very vigorous water flow, a sump with refugium. Some sort of Macro algae or algae scrubber too would be helpful.
I will +1 the selected portions of the above.
I do not think a DSB is for everyone, even a remote one.
If you are going to do a DSB, you should have it be remote, and you should make sure that there is NO chance of any detritus getting into the system.
I would also be highly experienced in marine aquaria before you try one.
They reek of risk to me.
I plan on trying one on the next massive sump I build however, just so that I can gain some practical experience with them...run some experiments of my own.
Clowns and damsels are from the same family, pomacentridae, and many are aggressive.
The angels and the butterfly's will nip at corals and other invertebrates that you would consider desirable, I would stock the tank first, and then add these if you wanted them, but you do so at your own risk, sometimes you will get away with it.
Some high end reefers actually like to have a densely stocked tank, because they say that the best coral food is fish poop.
Obviously they vigorously clean their tanks, and it will be necessary to keep nitrates under 10ppm and phosphates as low as possible. IF you can do that, stock away.
