80G Reef fish plan!!

Hey guys, after my very large thread in General section, I thought I would post my ideas for livestock here in a bit smaller thread lol. This is what I'm thinking now, and thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated!!

80G Bowfront Glass
100-110lbs Live rock, with various corals

Fish list:
Royal Gramma
Kaudern's Cardinal
Ocellaris Clownfish Pair
Firefish
Bellus Angel (reef safe according to vividaquariums.com)
Blue Tang (To be added as juveniles later)
Yellow Tang (To be added as juveniles later)
Green Mandarin (Added after at least 9months of tank operation)

What do you guys think??

Thanks,

-Ben

 

Looks pretty good, I think with the two tangs and angel you are going to be pushing the bioload. Are you going to use a sump? Also, remember to add the most passive fish first. I would add the clowns and firefish, then the cardinal, royal gamma and then the tangs and angel.

 

i would definitely have a fuge with 2 tangs bioload and a mandarin

 

and a BIG skimmer

 

1 tang in an 80 gallon is fine, but I'm sorry to say that I highly doubt 2 would be.

How long is an 80 gallon?

 

lol we already had that thread, i suggested if too tangs were gonna go in anything it would be his 100 lol

 

OMG I looked up that Bellus Angel. AMAZING looking fish! I'm almost sad I went with a Coral Beauty but then again I don't know if I could stomach paying over $100 for a fish...

 

Ah I remember.

Yea we already had this talk about 2 tangs in an 80 and you're still planning on it? Why?

 

um... I think you might be over stocking it remember 80G might be enough but when you add in your live rock you run out of a lot of space for the tangs to move. I would suggest only one tang and you could change that if you wanted to with another cardinal they are better in pairs anyways

 

Ok so I'm a little disturbed. I have been reading over the feedback given here for my thread and have found it to be very contradicting. For starters, I've got a couple posts back stating that my list would be a cool idea, and to just make sure I've got the right size sump/fuge and skimmer. Then I get other responses saying that its too much of a bioload and not a good idea and so on and so on. But in the meantime of all this advice I've seen 2 threads from people showing off their tanks with similar bioload issues and no one saying anything about it.

A guy with a 125G got it all setup and literally after a week of getting the tank running he was adding numerous fish. Shortly after he added 3 yellow tangs, a sweetlips thats full growth is over a foot!! and not one person said anything about too much bioload, or adding them too fast.

Then recent post about a 75 gallon tank where the guy has almost the exact same setup as i listed above, except he has an additional tang making 3 total! In a tank 5G smaller than the one I'm starting. Once again no one mentioned anything about bioload.

Then I visit 3 reputable LFS' in my area and all of which say the same thing, "It's not too much of a bioload, just be prepared if they do eventually outgrow the tank, you may need to trade in/ trade up."

So I guess what I'm asking with this long reply is.... Are the skeptical responses I'm getting based off of personal experiences? Bad experiences possibly caused by bad information? Or just reading material online?

I'm just very confused, and I think this relates very closely to a recent post about newbies not taking advice and doing what they want anyway. One member accused newbies that don't take the advice given here as being stupid, but I'm starting to see things from a different perspective. Why take advice when your hearing two completely different contradictory things from many different people. Not to say anyone is right or wrong, but how can one tell?

Thanks,

-Ben