PackLeader's 200 gallon Reef

These guys are great.I had one a while back(rip)..might get another one day...Tank is looking good...

 

Me likey!!! Looking great. What else, if anything, will you be adding to the tank?

 

Nice fish ! is it reef safe?

 

I am not sure fish wise. I might add another tang. I have also been thinking of maybe an anthias or two. Haven't decided. Right now, the henio and the hippo are going to be the biggest fish, but they are still babies. The trigger and the goby are my biggest fish, but they are pretty much full grown already. So I definitely have room in the bioload. But I have three options that I need to decide on. Either no more and leave the bioload light, more numerous, smaller fish that could make the tank look busy, or one or two more larger fish. And once I get the fuge details worked out some more, there will be a male/female pair of sea horses in there.
And of course more corals!

Yes. It is a heniochus diphreutes, which are reef safe. But, they can be easily confused with the more popular heniochus acuminatus, which will absolutely shred a reef.

 

Want opinions?

If I had your tank capacity, I'd go for more, smaller fish. I like a busy tank, and the combined bio-load of more, smaller fish would be less an impact of the poop machines you'd get out of two large tangs, or two larger fish.

It's all personal preference, of course, big fish are nice, but at a distance yield less activity and more bio load. Personally, it's more appealing to me, to have more activity, color, movement; than to have a couple of huge bucks with the meadow all to themselves. Whatever you choose will be sweet, but if you're taking suggestions--there's mine!!

 

Me too. I would keep a school of anthias if I had a big tank like that.

 

for what it is worth... me too.

 

I'm jumping on the more small fish bandwagon vote, that's what I would do too!

 

Agreed with all of the above