Hello. It’s about time for me to start considering the how, what, and when to introduce my fish into my tank. I have been cycling my 30 gallon tank for several weeks now with live rock and live sand (40 lbs. of each). I also have a protein skimmer which I believe is 300 gph. From my understanding from post on this site and other research I may want to start by adding a small hardy cleanup crew to start and then build it up later as their food source/bio load increases. When my tank is well established I envision having the following (approximately)…

3 Scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
5 hermit crabs
6 Cerith snails
6 dwarf cerith snails
2 nassarius snails
7 nerite snails
6 trochus snails
3 Spiny Star Astraea snails

After I have small cleanup crew I will begin adding my fish. I have read that the most peaceful fish should be added first. So I was going to add in order…

1 Horned Blenny
1 Banggai Cardinalfish
2 True Percula Clownfish

This is a maximum of 14 inches of fish for a 30 gallon tank which IMO should be close enough to 1 inch per 5 gallons rule. At least I hope so.

Questions. Is this a workable tank set up? Would these fish get along? Is the cleanup crew too big/small? What should my CUC look like before I add fish.

Also I enjoy hearing about fish that others enjoy that may fit well with my tank set up. Give me a name and ill look it up.

hi

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