soft corals and fish questions

[bprewit]

Well heck I cannot make up my mind on my tank. I have a 125g tank that has been up and running for a couple of months after the last tank was destroyed and have the following inhabitants at the moment:
Volitian Lion
Dwarf Lion
Copperband Butterfly
Zerba Moray Eel
Corals:
Xenia (grows everywhere with constant pruning)
two Branching Hammer corals
assorted Zoo's
assorted mushrooms
two small Elephant Skin Corals
also have a 30g sump/fuge
I am building a new canopy with 4-110W VHO and 2-250W MH and in the beginning I had planned this to be a SPS tank but that was before the purchase of the dwarf lion and eel. Now I am considering scrapping the SPS idea and just sticking with softies in this tank. I have plugged the closed loop and now have only medium flow in the tank. I am thinking of running the 2 metal halides and only two of the VHO's with actnic bulbs in them. I am just not too sure on what all soft corals there are available? I will soon get more yellow fiji leathers and pick up two small frags from a green toadstool leather this weekend but what other softies like high light, medium flow, and would add some color to the tank?
Last question is for my quest to find one more fish to add to this tank. I am mainly interested in another butterfly but unsure of which is the most suitable. The two I have come up with are a Yellow Longnose Butterfly (Forcipiger flavissimus) or a Lemon Butterfly (Chaetodon miliaris) but also have been reading of Black & White Heniochus (Heniochus acuminatus) and some claim it to be a possible reef safe butterfly and it is actually a pretty cool lookin fish. Has anyone tried to keep these types of butterfly's in their reef tank or have any experience with them in general? Any input on what the possibility of them not eating on soft corals or maybe even some ideas for somewhat noxious soft corals that would be safe with them?

[Ross]

There are so many different softies....hundreds of varities of zoos, lots of leathers, xenia, mushrooms, ricordia, green brown and pink star polyps, yellow polyps, clove polyps...etc.

Butterflys are normally pretty tough, but considering you have 125 you may have good luck. You could go with some kind of tang...yellow, scopas, purple (maybe, he might pick on some fish they can be aggresive). Regal/hippo/blue whatever you want to call them, sailfin, kole, etc...

[jonreed]

a tang has the possibility of adding a lot more color. i think regals are great-the two that i have had have always had a lot of character. anyways, good luck

[GaryP]

If you are not planning on adding SPS to this tank I would re-think adding MH lights. Some softies such as mushrooms are not going to do well under that intensity lighting. You may want to consider just going with VHO only. That's what I have in my 75 gal. softy tank. Normally MH is only used for SPS and clam (Maxima & Derasa) tanks.

[pilot_bell777]

SCARY.... :wacko

That sound IDENTICAL to my old talk. Wild......

I had all the same fish, and all the same corals except for the Elephant...

;) LOL