what marine fish can go together?
16 November 2008
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can green mandarins , regal tangs , common clownfish lemonpeel dwarf angelfish , firefish , yellow boxfish , mushroom corals , bubble anemone , urchins , live rock , polyps , maze coral and waving hands xenia all go together ?
nope, well i wouldn’t anyway… the angel and boxfish will eat the xenia, polyps, and probably mushrooms..
and the mandarin may be out competed for food if there isn’t enough live rock orthe tank isn’t established well enough..
The short answer is yes, they can. However, I suspect that you are relatively new to marine aquariums since you are asking the question. Green mandarins need a mature aquarium with lots of copepods and amphipods and other micro fauna. They shouldn’t be added until your aquarium has been up for at least a year. Boxfish are difficult to care for and should only be kept by very experienced keepers and they are not totally reef safe (they may eat your corals and inverts.) Regal Tangs need a 100 gallon or larger aquarium. No angel is 100% reef safe but if you keep the lemonpeel well fed you will probably be OK. Otherwise it may pick on your corals and other inverts. Bubble anemones are among the easiest of anemones but they are not easy. Clownfish do not require anemones to be healthy and happy. The corals all need space to spread and the aggressive ones will eventually try to crowd out the more peaceful slower growing corals. Some polyps are quite aggressive, maze coral (brain coral) is semi-aggressive, mushrooms are semi-aggressive and xenia is a peaceful coral. They all have different requirements for lighting, water movement and placement in your tank. To keep everything you’ve mentioned you will need a large aquarium (110 gallon minimum) to allow for proper room between each of the corals otherwise they will engage in biological warfare. Buy a few good books, join some online forums and move slowly. Good luck and enjoy!
A mako and a mackeral should get along.
Lets start off on care levels before Compatibility. Some of these fish are for expert care takers. those would be the Green Mandarin and the Bubble anemone. They need established tanks of at least a year old. the fire fish and the clowns will be ok and are both reef safe, lemonpeel is not reef safe so cannot live with the corals yellow boxfish is also not reef safe. I suggest you keep reading and do some serious homework because if you put all this together you are going to have a thin wallet for nothing.
angel will nip your soft corals
Regal tangs catch diseases(mainly ich) like nobodies business
Mandarin fish are hard too feed.
boxfish can release toxins
and the urchin will eat everything you set on a rock…coral!
everything else sounds great!
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