What can/should I add?

[Sugardaddy1979]

 

40 breeder with 20 long sump. Total system water is roughly 55 gallons. Have 45 lbs of rock and 45 lbs of sand.

 

Current occupants include :

Pair of occy clowns

Red firefish

Yellow watchman goby with candy cane pistol shrimp.

10 or so hermits

5 astrea snails

5 nassarius snails

A serpent star

A purple urchin

2 frogspawn, gap, Duncan, button polyps.

 

Would like to add:

Royal gramma

Blue green chromis

Mckosker or carpenter flasher wrasse

 

Would that be too much? Would the order of addition matter?

[Sugardaddy1979]

Hippo Tang it is!

[Arkayology]

I would skip the chromis, but if you want to add the flasher wrasse and gramma I say go for it. They are both good fishes and will be fine with your current livestock. I would suggest looking into midas blennies as well. They are very cool and personable fish.

[ragtimewilly]

Your list is pretty similar to what I'd like to stock in my 40 breeder, except subbing in a tailspot blenny for the royal gramma. Ark, any reason for suggesting to skip the chromis? I've also heard mixed things about having flasher wrasses in a 40 breeder, some suggest they do better in a longer tank where they can swim a bit more. Anyways I'll be interested in what you decide to stock.

[Sugardaddy1979]

Thanks guys! I'm hearing that the chromis are carrying a disease that I can't remember or pronounce. Also considering a mystery wrasse.

[Tamberav]

I think mystery wrasse's can be jerks so be careful. I think a small leopard or coris would be pretty cool! I have a coris in mine for awhile now and he seems to be a very slow grower.

 

A fang blenny would also be amazing. They swim a lot and come in a huge array of colors.

[Sugardaddy1979]

Haven't looked at fang blennies at all. Maybe I'll pass on the mystery wrasse then. I just want a good open water swimmer that's colorful and won't be a jerk. I like the coris wrasse a bit. Just trying to get colors I couldn't get in freshwater.