Puffers and Anthias?

[sumfingwong]

Not sure if some may remember, but I was upgrading my tank for my porcupine and dogface. I ran into so many problems when I was developing my basement (mainly foundation crack). Everything was ready to go, and carpets were to be installed, but we saw that the floor was damp. Luckily we noticed this before the carpet was installed and tank on top of it.

So, right now I have a cycled 145ish with a 80ish gallon sump. This was a custom 5ft tank I had made, and a custom sump to fit under the tank. I utilized as much space as I could because I aiming for total volume. I have about 100 lbs of LR, and I am cooking my old LR (70lbs) and crushing it all and its going into the sump/fuge.

So in the tank, I have Gizmo (porcupine puffer), Binder (dogface), lawnmower blenny (I have not moved him down yet) and 3 chromis. I am looking for some nice tankmates for them, and was looking at bartlett anthias.

A little background on the puffers, I only have 1 word to describe them "wussies" they are scared of everything. They get along great, they sometimes sleep beside each other, swim beside each other.. kind of inseparable. I am planning on buying about 100 hermit crabs, as they dont always pick on them as long as I keep them fed at all time. There is this one hermit I have that has lived with a clown trigger and porc puffer before going into my tank, hes still alive today *knock on wood*. I have however found binder going through the sand looking for snails. But only because I only introduced him to the tank a couple days ago. He was so scared, he wouldnt leave the big caves I made for them. Yesterday I came home to holes in the sand through out the tank, and found 2 snails dead. The 5 tester hermits are still alive and well, and I have about 5 more from the tank in the office.

I kind of went all out with this tank, and my buddies are telling me to donate the puffers to the Toyota dealership in the city (he maintains the tanks there), because I pretty much built a reef tank. They would go into a 500 gallon fowlr tank, this would be an option when they get too big for my setup, but I will be building a 300+ system after. So back to my build, I went all ecotech products (pumps and the new radion lights) So I am leaning towards some corals, it will be a test to see if binder will go after them, Gizmo can care less.. he just likes cruising around in the tank. I want to make use of the cool ecotech products, once everything is installed I will be programming the system in natural mode to mimic the actual reefs), and add a thunderstorm here and there to bring up all the gunk and force it down the overflow. If you dont know what I am talking about, youtube the ecotech vortech pumps and the radion lights. I'll try to post some pics, but im actually not fond of my plumbing for the return haha

What tankmates do you guys have with your puffers? I need some more "pretty" fish so my wife can enjoy the tank. Actually, binder only gets excited when my wife checks them out, maybe because she named him.

Some more info on my tank if you guys wanted to know if my tank can handle the bioload:

2 x Ecotech MP40
2 x Ecotech Radion
1 x Reef Octopus 3000 int protein skimmer
1 x Phosban 550 currently with Vertex bio pellets. I also have 3 lbs of high capacity GFO that I will be using.
2 x 300W heaters
1 x return pump.. I think its rated at 1800 gph

I also have prodibio products. I used the startup to help cycle the tank, and I have the bioclean salt to help maintain if I were to get spikes from the bioload. I am still deciding if I want to dose the tank regularly, or use it on an as-needed basis

All my water is from my puratek 100 gpd RO/DI unit

[sumfingwong]

I was also thinking about buying a foxface to help with the eventual algae growth. But with all the cheato in the sump, RO water and GFO/bio pellets. I am hoping I wont have algae problems