Stocklist for 14g Biocube... feedback wanted

[cr500_af]

My daughter and I are about to start setting up her birthday present and letting it cycle. We were looking at fish online today and I was letting her give her opinions on some fish that would be appropriate in the nano.
This will be a FO tank, or at the most a few softies. We plan to use one or two of the little Ecoxotic LED modules for lighting.

Her list, in order of stocking:

Green banded goby
Red striped goby
Red firefish
Ocellaris clownfish

She wants a pair of clowns, but I told her she needed to stay with no more than this number of fish, but I'm trying to cut the list to three... am I being too cautious? She'd give up either the firefish or the red-striped for another clown, but I'm trying to get her to have a good variety instead of duplicates.

The red-striped is very small, and shouldn't be with "more agressive" fish, and at first I wondered about the clown. However, I don't think it would be an issue since I've never seen a clown mess with another species (unless they are defending their anemone).

What do you guys think?

 

[rolo65]

Could always get rid of the firefish and get a yasahashi....pair both with some pistol shrimp....I have a red banded and pistol in my tank....love them....to bad they burrowed in the back and I only see them at random

 

[rolo65]

But yeah I'd go with the one clown in that tank

 

[markl]

I had a pair of true percs in a 7gallon mini bow for 4 years

 

[weaglereefer]

I would go with the pair, get them a toadstool leather to host and then if they mate, you have a segway into that "talk" in a few years, lol.

Has she seen the purple firefish? I'd take one of those over the red firefish any day. What about a yellow watchman goby? She like any of the cardinals?

Just don't forget that clownfish are damselfish, so they can be aggressive if they want to be.