stocking list for 29 gallon.

hey all i am wanting to add a fish or two to my aquarium. i currently have 2 percula clowns, CBS, emerald crab, brittle starfish, and a lawnmower blenny. do any of you have nay suggestions as to what i should put in my tank? i want to add color and movement so i may have to get two fish. it is a reef tank.
thanks


~Gexx

 

my suggestions:

-blue or green chromis (peaceful, but not quite as colorful, shiny tho) will school with a small group, but supposedly not for long

-royal gramma - purple/yellow, peaceful, good all around fish

-six-line wrasse (although they can be pretty aggressive in my experience, but they do add a lot of movement, always moving, searching through rocks they glide through the water in a sinister way, and can be VERY fast... they will eat hermits and shrimp though) if you get one make it smaller than your other fish tho it will get bigger!

-neon gobies are tiny and have very little effect on your bioload, they perch a lot so not a whole lot of movement, you could easily add two of these and have it not really effect your fish count... plus they clean your other fish which is cool to watch and in my experience keeps parasites away, but this has been debated

-pseudochromis (dottybacks) also good for color and movement, but once again, aggressive, never had one but heard they are really aggressive for their size also come in cool color varieties usually a mix of purple/yellow, prettier than royal grammas to me but again the aggression is an issue

-mandarins, but on your size tank you would need to probably have a very high copepod/amphipod population and/or supplement with live copepods, but very beautiful, cool movement, around rocks and substrate

-clown goby, the yellow ones are very brightly colored and all are peaceful...

-clingfish

-yellow watchman goby (not much movement though, bottom dweller)

-midas blenny- very cool, golden yellow color with bold blue eyes swims like an eel

-firefish, especially purple and helfrichi varieties, the helfrichi is awesome looking but really pricey ~($135), they are very peaceful and colorful, very visible, it's a type of goby actually, but the plain one is about 15 bucks at your LFS usually and the purple is like 25-30

-i think any of these would make good choices, just be careful with the aggressive fish, they can be a headache... and bully your other fish, steal food out of your inverts mouths and steal food from other fish, get them small and make sure your other fish are fairly dominant in the tank, always add fish more peaceful to more aggressive so peaceful fish in first to get established, then add aggressive species later so they are more subdued

it takes a while sometimes to find the right fish, especially when you have a small tank and a reef tank to boot... i have a 20g.. understand that the more tightly packed aggressive fish are, the more of a problem ti becomes, those fish might not be territorial in a 55g because they've got a lot of space but put them all on top of each other and the aggression is apparent

 

If it were me I probably would stop stocking right where you are, 3 fish in a 29 is pretty good IMO. If anything you could maybe squeeze in a small goby or something without going too far overstocking.

JMO, I'm generally of the understocking mindset though. I feel like it's better for everyone involved, you on your water changes and maintenance and on the fish for crowdedness/territoriality/aggression, especially if those clowns pair up.

 

How about a shark!?


Actually...I could go with something like a six-line wrasse. But it still might be a little much. Anything small would suffice, seeing has you already have 2 percs and a blenny.

 

hhhmmm i like the midas blenny a lot. they are around 45 dollars at my LFS. i would rather have corals though so i might hold out on this one.