Fish suggestions!

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Royalturtle

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Hi all,
I have 75g softie and fish tank, established about 10 months ago now. I currently have two ocellaris clowns, a royal gramma, a kole tang, and a fire fish. At this point all seem to be getting along well, all eating and very active; last fish (the gramma) was added a few months ago. Everything appears to be stable now, and I am looking to add a small number of fish (1-? Depending on size/temperament etc). I do not have a type of fish I just must have, so looking for suggestions as to what to add. Any must-haves that will do well in this environment and with these tankmates?
Thanks!
 
I recomend flasher, small fairy, and small Halichoeres wrasses. These are all active, colorful, and reasonably hardy fish.

Jawfish are quite personable and interesting.
 
They say its a 50/50 chance that the dwarf angels will nip. Mine seemed to be a nipper the first month, only a plate coral and montipora (I have mostly a softy/lps tank). Didn't do too much damage, both corals are still growing/living, and the flame stoppped nipping for the last 2 months or so.

I've read somewhere that if they do nip, they usually tend to stick to one coral and if you keep that coral he'll usually leave the others alone. Not sure if thats true though
 
Yellow clown goby ? Or carpenter flasher, funny thing your fish list is similar to mind ...... I do have a coral beauty and he leaves my lps and zoos alone I do hang spinach thou on the glass for him and my tangs
 
Thanks for all the suggestions and advice! Interesting to hear different experiences with the angels; I'll have to give it some thought. I love the wrasse and clown goby suggestions - hadn't thought about jaw fish, I need to look into those a little more. I'll probably take this list down to the lfs and see what catches my eye (and budget ��) to try to start narrowing it down.
 
Fish suggestions!

I've had my flameback angel for a month in a 60 gallon reef. It only nips at my finger leather coral but leaves everything else alone. Even then the leather coral stays open almost all the time. Definitely good looking and active fish. I feed the angel twice a day and I think that has a lot to do with it not going rouge on eating corals.
 
Yellow coris wrasse are nice. I have 1 in my 140 and is very pretty and active. Sleeps in the sand at night.
 
Thanks again for the continued info. Question for those of you with wrasses - do you have lids? Ever had problems with jumpers? My fire fish has never so much looked at the surface, though I have seen them jump at the lfs when being netted, so wondering if a wrasse is along those lines or more aggressive as a leaper.
 
Wrasses are some of my favorites, but they will jump. I have a covered tank and have had, on two separate occasions, them jump un-noticed while i was doing maintenance (and only a small portion of the tank was uncovered).

What about a Flame Hawk? I love mine, he/she has lots of character and is always out and about. Yellow Tangs are great too!
 
That Flame Hawk is gorgeous! I'll have to see if the lfs carries those. I think I'll avoid the wrasses for now, as tempting as they are, as I don't think I can secure the surface as well as it sounds like I would need to. I definitely would like to get a goby of some sort, not decided yet, and then one other - maybe a the Hawk, maybe a foxface. I love the yellow tang but doubt it would get along well with my kole tang, especially in a 75g. I have read some good things about a kole tang and a foxface together in that size tank.
 
I would not recommend any foxface in a 75 apart from the 1 spotted-foxface.Yellow tang would be better but that is MY personal opinion :D
 
Thanks - it was the one spot I was referring to, sorry for not being more clear. I'll look into others' experiences with the yellow and kole tang together a little more.
 
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