FO tank with butterflies?

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Hi, i am looking to put a fish only tank with live rock together, approx 350L tank and 200L sump. Now, wanna try some of the "easy to keep" butterflies like:

Bannerfish
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Raccoon
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Auriga
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Yello Longnose
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And then maybe a dwarf angel.
either a bicolor
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or a flame angel
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and cinamon clown
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So do any of you guys have a problem with the fish list etc ? :)
 
List looks good, what about a clown trigger and a picasso trigger?
 
list looks good, but make sure you ahve a good pod population, especially in the begginning as this will help if they battle to feed on frozen or artificial, especially that long nosed.
 
yeah, i was thinking of adding the clown(s) first, do you think there will be any aggresion issues ? Longnose last, one more thing i want 1 of everything except clowns and banner fish, how many banner fish do you think i can get away with 2 or 3 ?
 
If its FO then you dont have to go with the plain looking niger. You could easily look at some of the more colourful triggers....but 350l isnt that big and i think a trigger will be cramped for swimming space....id skip them personally
 
yeah have been doing some reading, most of them grow to 10"+ and min tank recommended tank size is 70 gal, but i dont like keeping fish in the bare minimum requirements
 
why do you not try a cool/deep water fish only tank
that will be interesting
 
deep water fish need cooler water and fish from japan fish like that
a chiller for a small tank is not that much
like deep water pygmy angels Centropyge colini,Centropyge multicolor
there is also deep water butterflys like Chaetodon tinkeri,Chaetodon declevis
big angels like Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis ,maze angel that is a hybrid
triggers like Xanthichthys ringens
Liopropoma carmabi
so there is lots and lots of fish
 
Sounds awesome with all the butterflies... You can propably get away with 3 banners but I think 2 would be best.
 
I like the butterfly idea. And the other fish you want to include ar also beauts. The trigger idea is cool except that once its bigger or fully grown, considering the size of your tank and the amount of other fish you want to include, it can harrass other more passive fish and you may have to remove it. A more docile trigger to consider would be a blue face trigger.

Just try to remember to plan the introduction of your fish from the least aggressive first to the more aggressive last.

Clown tempriment - depends on which clown you plan to introduce. I had bad experiences with Maroon and Tomato Clowns. Once they claim their territory they can be quite boisterous towards other fish that are less aggressive. Less aggressive clowns in my experience are Ocellaris clowns.
 
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