How should I stock my 29g???

[mbender04]

I recently commandeered my mothers tank that she had let go. I've had it now for about two months. It's clean and stable and outside of rehoming the two awful damsels she put in there it's ready for new inhabitants. Right now I have just one astraea snail (wanna get two more), a tuxedo urchin and an emerald crab. I want to add a fighting conch to the clean up too. I also have a kenya tree, four colonies of zoas, one little hitchhiker mushroom, green star polyps, and a very small xenia.

My question mostly is if anyone has some suggestions for fish combinations. I really enjoy having functional but ornate fish but it's so difficult in a small tank. Every combination I come up with ends up flawed so....any suggestions??

Thanks :)

[ballardjr2000]

I was told a a panda goby very cool color since i am setting up a 12g. when i looked at the pic i was like yeah. just a thought for yah.

[mbender04]

I was definitely wanting some kind of goby but then I need to find other fish that won't mess with it. I originally wanted to get a half black and lemonpeel at extremely young ages but I don't want to risk everything that comes with it.

[Big_Pun]

panda gobies are very small just so you know

[teacampuzano]

you could do a docile tank, with sexy shrimp and sea horses. I saw someone with this sort of tank, it was originally a ricordea and zoa breeding tank, but it was definitely a beautiful tank!

[justahobby]

Goby, dartfish, cardinal fish, and blenny would do. Adding seahorses with certain coral can be very tricky in a smaller tank since alot of coral prefer higher flow than a seahorse can tolerate.

[JoshOdphi]

y dont u throw in like um....yellow/green clown goby....catalina goby....panda...oh how bout twin spot goby...rainfordi goby...sexy shrimp would be nice...citron goby....sorry named several gobies.....or also if u want a wrasse ...a yellow coris....

[Big_Pun]

lol theres alot you could do i like surfing liveaquaria.com and looking and reading they even have a nano fish section. in one of my 29's i have a strawberry pseudo, lawn mower blenny, twinspot goby, and a green mandarin, but ide stay away from the mandarin need a established tank mine is almost 2yrs old so lots of food for him

[mbender04]

Yeah, the tank was originally a seahorse tank for my mother. They did really well but the intakes never were covered and after a year of having them the inevitable happened. Live and learn. I love the idea of having seahorses again. I would love H. Reidi and H. Barbouri pairs with really whimsical looking soft corals. I may just do that. Has anyone had experience with seahorses enough to say whether gobies would do well with them? Oh and the tank has been set up for just over two years but in the middle it went through a pretty nasty "downtime".

[JoshOdphi]

negative...wut kind of soft corals were u thinkin of placing in there?

[mbender04]

Just ones similar to what I've already got in there. Right now I have a few zoas, kenya tree, gsp, small xenia, and a very small mushroom.

[JoshOdphi]

kool.....nice softy tank...

[mbender04]

I was looking at DPotts 29g BC picture and I love the soft, pastel, whimsical look it has. I wouldn't use the frogspawn or bubble with seahorses but I've been thinking something along those lines. Just a nice soft tank.

[JoshOdphi]

they have a nice nano tank at a lfs in corpus set up on their counter....whole bunch of xenia attached to the backwall pulsing like crazy...love tha way that looks....