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roseselene

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Hi! Sorry, I don't post much here, but once we got set up (thanks to all of your help) we have had very few problems and I don't have a whole lot of time to get to the forums to read.
But I do have a question.
This is what we have:
55 gallon tank with: 3 blue/green Chromis, 1 green clown goby, 1 royal gramma, 1 scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp, 1 turbo snail, 2 nassirius snails, and lots of prolific mushroom coral as well of lots of live rock.
We have a deep sand bed and a very small refugium that is thriving with all kinds of interesting life back there. We unfortunately have the ocassional aptaisia as well, but we have used Joe's Juice for that (I hope that's ok).

So my question is this: With all of that, in what seems to be a fairly stable tank in which we don't add new things very often because we have had very few fatalities, can we add one more fish? My 3 y.o. daughter has decided that we must have a "nemo" fish. LOL! :lol: So, can we add a clown fish to the mix that we have now or is that not a good idea? I could picture one hanging out in the mushroom coral (even though that's not what they do in the wild) but the green goby seems to have claimed our mushroom coral for his own, so I don't know that that would work.

Let me know what you think. I am certainly not going to give into my daughter just because she wants a "nemo" fish. But she is extraordiarily interested in the fish and if it would work, then I would certainly consider it.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
Amy
 
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Ehhhhh.... - You're starting to push the bioload a bit maybe, but shouldn't really be a problem.

You do skim and do water changes right?


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roseselene

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We have a protein skimmer -- and yes we do water changes. So, you think that it would be compatible? I didn't want everyone to start fighting either. LOL
Amy
 
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I don't think you're pushing the bioload at all. You could add a pair of clownfish to that tank with no problems.

Peace,

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roseselene

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My daughter would be most excited! Hmmm.....I'll have to think about it since you think it might be ok. I hate adding anything. I'm paranoid about it. Its so stable right now, I hate to change anything, but I'm glad you think it would be ok. The royal gramma --- he can be a bit territorial though. He "shares" his rock with the cleaner shrimp.....and he's not happy about it!! LOL! I have so many rocks in the tank --- why oh why do they have to fight over one rock? just like little kids.
Amy
 
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I agree that it would be fine to add the 2 clowns. My children asked the same thing and I did and nemo and coral love their new home and have been very happy. They got chased a bit by the flame angel but after a few days turned the tables and chased him a few times and now everyone lives in an easy peace.
 

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