new tank, fish recomendations

figuerres

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I am in the process of getting the hardware right now for a reef tank.
I would like some ideas for the fish to put in.
here are some parameters:
tank will be a 150 gallon / 6 foot tank.

all of the live rock and sand will be from www.tampabaysaltwater.com
I am going to keep *ONLY* things that are native to the area of the Florida / Caribbean waters, no coral, inverts or fish from the pacific.

I would like to have a small school if some of the chromis would be ok for the tank size etc... and some different fish but not over stock the tank.

small fish are fine, and I do not want to put in a fish that will out grow the tank any time soon.

ideas ?
 
I'm not the only one with a Caribbean reef! Well, some smaller fish that'd most likely do well in your situation include-
•Royal Gramma
•Black Cap Basslet
•Chalk Basslet
•Bass from the genus Lipropoma
•Yellowfaced Pike Blenny
•Yellowheaded Jawfish
•Spotfin Jawfish
•Dusky Jawfish
•Saddled Blenny
•(Caribbean) Sailfin Blenny
•Rusty Goby
•Rhino Blenny
•Saddled Blenny
•Seminole Goby
•Masked Goby
•Hairy Blenny
•Molly Miller Blenny
•Neon Goby
•Goldline Blenny
•Bridled Goby
•Red Lip Blenny
•Blue Darfish (P. calliura)
•Blue Reef Chromis
•Purple & Yellow Reef Fish
•Purple Reef Fish
•Sunshine/Olive Chromis
•Flame Cardinalfish
•Glassy Sweeper
•Greenblotch Parrotfish (Believe it or not, an herbivorous parrotfish!)

Larger fish include-
•Not much here
•Possibly a Caribbean Tang (Ocean Surgeon, Doctorfish, Caribbean Blue, Etc)? I still think that's a little big for your tank
•The angels, butterflies, filefish, triggers, and etc would eat your coral
•Groupers, hamlets, drums, and etc would eat other/smaller fish/inverts
•Damsels are too darn aggressive and most of the Caribbean ones get pretty large compared to the Indo-Pacific species
 
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