Would these fish be OK together ?

"Go slow, let it grow" I agree though. I think that many fish would be alright, even maybe the dragonet, but slooww down. That's a lot of fish for 6 months.

 

Wild caught...?

 

WTF! I swear to God I have heard it all now! I have heard of the Tang police now we have the Mandarin Fuzz! And Whats a Chalk Bass got to do with it, they don't eat pods they eat flakes, mysis and other prepared foods.

Although I will say unless you get an ORA Mandarin or one that is eating prepared food you might you might want to watch him/her becasue your tank is a bit young to have a really good supply of pods.

I personally don't see any issues adding them, although your going to have to watch that flame angle, they tend to be a bit nasty and will go after the smaller one's in the tank.

My 75 Gallon has had the same fish in it since about 6 months after I set it up in 2008, I have a yellow tank, Hippo tang, Kole Tang, Red Fire fish, GSM Clown, Lawn Mower Blenny and a mated pair of Ocellaris Clown Fish in it. I am a firm believer that if a tank is well maintained (water changes, Carbon and Filter sock changes) you should,t have any trouble keeping a well stocked tank like mine.

And yes WC means wild caught last time I heard.

 

I think you're right. I saw on another thread people talking about pipefish being hard to care for because they are "WC".

...makes sense.

 

completely forgot my that one, I was thinking water change. been in salt too long, where everything is assumed wc unless otherwise stated.

 

Well, Ive read that Mandarins should be kept in a minimum of 55 gallons, but also that they don't live anywhere near as long as they're supposed to in tanks smaller than 120 gallons. I've also read that Chalk Bass feed almost constantly (in a book).. don't all small fish eat pods? ..just expressing my concern. I want this guy to get the most out of his pets.

 

Mandarins really should only be put in an established tank 1+ year. I would also remove the blue tang. Everything else looks good, I wouldnt worry about the chalk bass and the firefish, they should be fine together after a day or two.

 

Well, they need a large supply of pods. If you want to have a 30g DT, with a 50g refugium underneath to grow pods for the mandarin, I say go for it. It's just not the most efficient way to keep one.

 

Yeah. don't get me wrong I'm not trying to give you any sh*t. I'm merely presenting some facts, maybe some opinions, so you know what you're dealing with. I know of people keeping mandarins in a lot smaller tanks for years but they had to feed them.. here's some info I got out of a book @ the public library a while back on Serranus torugarum (Chalk Bass): "It is a planktivore. In nature it hovers over coral rubble facing into the current waiting for food. It feeds on zooplankton or bottom-dwelling invertebrates, such as copepods, gammarids, mysid shrimp and tanaids. In the wild it would feed constantly."

 

Pretty much any carnivorous fish will eat pods, especially if they get hungry. I'm pretty sure even my clowns would go scrounging around if it came down to it.

The difference with mandarins vs canary blennies, chalk basslets, and most other fish in the trade is that the other fish will take to prepared foods easily. The mandarin is super hard to train to take mysis, but nearly any other fish that would eat the same food in the wild has no problem transitioning to that stuff.