Hey guys, I recently became the official caretaker for the
125 gallon aquarium at my wifes office. The last guy they had maintaing it
was shady and did a terrible job and then just stopped coming one day so they fired him. My wife told them I would do it so I got the job which is pretty sweet because it will be fun and they're paying me well to do this. When I worked on it the first day the nitrates were off the scale and there were only two fish left out of an original 10! A med. size Clarkii clown
and a small yellow tang. It took me about a month and three trips
to get the tank clean and the water parameters back in shape. It looks great
now and they want me to come up with a stocking list of fish that they
can choose from. It will be FOWLR and I want to stock it with
fish that are fairly peaceful, easy to feed and that will provide a nice array
of colors because it will be the center piece in the office. I also want to keep the bioload kind of low as I will be relying mostly on smaller water changes every 2 weeks. There is 1/2 inch crushed coral substrate, 90-100 lbs. live rock, 2 Aquaclear 70's and a Bak-Pak dual skimmer.
Here is a list that I came up with and I would like you guys to take a quick look and see if there is anything you would recommend/not recommend.
Here is what I was thinking of getting so far:
Blue tang
Royal Gramma
Flame Hawk
Foxface Lo
Coral Beauty (there is a lot of LR with some patches of hair algae that I left
because the yellow tang likes to pick at it)
Yellow tang (sm. pre-existing)
Clarkii Clown (med. pre-existing)
What else might be nice to add? I would really like to get a couple of Despar Anthias but I have no experience with those and I'm worried about them eating. My wife will be doing the feedings when she gets there in the mornings and I trust her to keep amn eye on them, but still. A LFS has some beautiful ones and her boss pretty much gave me a blank check.
I was also thinking maybe 5 or 6 blue/green chromis?
So I thought I'd throw this out there. What do you think? Thanks!
125 gallon aquarium at my wifes office. The last guy they had maintaing it
was shady and did a terrible job and then just stopped coming one day so they fired him. My wife told them I would do it so I got the job which is pretty sweet because it will be fun and they're paying me well to do this. When I worked on it the first day the nitrates were off the scale and there were only two fish left out of an original 10! A med. size Clarkii clown
and a small yellow tang. It took me about a month and three trips
to get the tank clean and the water parameters back in shape. It looks great
now and they want me to come up with a stocking list of fish that they
can choose from. It will be FOWLR and I want to stock it with
fish that are fairly peaceful, easy to feed and that will provide a nice array
of colors because it will be the center piece in the office. I also want to keep the bioload kind of low as I will be relying mostly on smaller water changes every 2 weeks. There is 1/2 inch crushed coral substrate, 90-100 lbs. live rock, 2 Aquaclear 70's and a Bak-Pak dual skimmer.
Here is a list that I came up with and I would like you guys to take a quick look and see if there is anything you would recommend/not recommend.
Here is what I was thinking of getting so far:
Blue tang
Royal Gramma
Flame Hawk
Foxface Lo
Coral Beauty (there is a lot of LR with some patches of hair algae that I left
because the yellow tang likes to pick at it)
Yellow tang (sm. pre-existing)
Clarkii Clown (med. pre-existing)
What else might be nice to add? I would really like to get a couple of Despar Anthias but I have no experience with those and I'm worried about them eating. My wife will be doing the feedings when she gets there in the mornings and I trust her to keep amn eye on them, but still. A LFS has some beautiful ones and her boss pretty much gave me a blank check.
I was also thinking maybe 5 or 6 blue/green chromis?
So I thought I'd throw this out there. What do you think? Thanks!
