I wanted to grab Skytest but I don't know how stable it would be with the animal based mods I'm using at te moment.

I use these mods:

Skyrim monster mod
Deadly dragons
Dragons diversified
Mighty dragons
Real wildlife skyrim

These are the only ones I have that I think may confict, would a merged patch get these running okay together (everything's fine at th moment, I mean with skytest)

From the SkyTEST description page

It should also be perfectly compatible with Mighty Dragons and Dragons diversified.

Yeah I saw that but I also read a few comments about conflicts with monster mod and a few others that the description page mentioned it was compatible with.

I suppose I'll just have to to test it out