75 stocking suggestions

[Monkeyfish]

Saw that coming a light year away.:bigeyes:

lol

Avoid tangs in a 75g.

Perculas are generally NOT aggressive, but other clowns can be, especially Maroons and tomatoes.

Jawfish (and some gobies and wrasses) need at least a 3 inch sand-bed and deeper for some species.

If it's a reef you probably want to avoid angels unless you're willing to have the corals take some damage. Leathers and shrooms should be okay, but LPS are fair game.

There are plenty of inverts that are good in 75g tank. Blood/fire shrimp, pistol shrimp, porcelin crabs, abalone, numerous snails, certain hermit crabs, feather dusters, yellow cucumbers and several species of macro algae such as titan, dragans breath and ochode (spelling wrong).

Pairing firefish is risky business. If it's not a male/female pair you may end up with only 1 fish!

My current 75g stocking list consists of:
purple firefish
red firefish (just happen to work, though the purple picks on the fire someitmes)
percula clown
royal gramma
tailspot blenny
banggai cardinal

I also have feather dusters, an abalone, blue sponge, tunicates, peppermint and skunk cleaner shrimp and a brittle star. And, of course, a lot of corals!

I wouldn't put filter feeders in a new tank.

 

[Johnwayne]

purple tang and black clowns

 

[Cahooligan]

Id say you could put a mandarin in the 75. it would have to be setup with alot of liverock for a while( around six months to get the copepod population up). also cant have any fish that are going to compete for copepods with the mandarin, and every once and a while it would be a good thing to add live copepods from a LFS....or skip all the hard stuff and get a ORA tank bred mandarin

 

[snorvich]

Id say you could put a mandarin in the 75. it would have to be setup with alot of liverock for a while( around six months to get the copepod population up). also cant have any fish that are going to compete for copepods with the mandarin, and every once and a while it would be a good thing to add live copepods from a LFS....or skip all the hard stuff and get a ORA tank bred mandarin

How long have you had your ORA tank bred mandarin? Up until that recommendation, you were going along just fine.

 

[jason12345]

im all the way with tank bread but i dont think that every fish will be the same, just because they were born in a small enclosed environment. a purple fire fish, lawnmower blenny, a true percula clown pair, and 3 wrasses. sound good?

 

[NewJerseyreef]

I have a 75 and i was just interested why no sand... it may cause some problems but if you have the right fish it should be fine... gobys paired with a pistol shrimp could keep it very clean considering the ehard working nature of the shrimp always moving sand

 

[jason12345]

i want high flow sps. and dont want sand blowing around