Stocking 75 Gal. Reef help!

[fish clown]

Well finnaly Ive gotten my tank levels right and I think its time for some more fish. On my tank I am running 150gal. pro clear aquatics skimmer, a 400 filter sock i think(the finnest holed one), a refugium and an ATS that i recently put in. In the tank itself I have 90lbs of LR and as far as corals I have tons of green star pholys, some zoas, a bit of trumpet coral, a small acan frag, a? that stings, 5 rosebubble anemones, and then another ? For fish right now I have 4 blue/green chromis and one true perc clown. What I want to get is a kole yellow eye tang for sure, a flame angel, cherub angel, 2 firefish, 2Kaudern's Cardinals, a longnose butterfly, and a royal gamma. With the filtration and space I have would this be to much. If it is what would you get rid of? Ive heard the royal gamma can harrass some fish but would that be so with these particular fish? On the angels picking on corals I read a thread on RC called the angel thread to end all angel threads and it had a chard they made that said things abou each angel and on the two i listed they were 80% lilkly to pick on corals so im not to concerned on that.

 

[fish clown]

Anyone?????

 

[Andrew]

I'd go with one dwarf angel. I don't see a problem with your list. Something else to consider that add a lot of character to a tank would be a hawk. I have a falco in my 75 and he's the most interesting and active fish:

 

[fish clown]

I'd go with one dwarf angel. I don't see a problem with your list. Something else to consider that add a lot of character to a tank would be a hawk. I have a falco in my 75 and he's the most interesting and active fish:

Ya I think my odds of having a successful tank would be better with out one of those angels the more I looked around. I know hawks are not compleatly reef safe but how reef safe are they really?

 

[rssjsb]

They won't bother your corals but may eat shrimp.

 

[fish clown]

They won't bother your corals but may eat shrimp.

I do have a cleaner shrimp and six peppermint shrimp. How Likly would it be to go after them? Is there a certain Hawk that may not bother them as much as others ?

 

[fish clown]

I did some seaching and found that some hawks will eat the shrimp in fifteen min. or fifteen months but I dont want to lose any shrimp so ill skip the hawk for now.

 

[fish clown]

what about the royal gamma with the fish I want and have. Ive heard it terroriszes some fish but what about the ones on my list? They are beutiful fish so id like to have one but not if it may kill other fish.

 

[tjmoreci]

Royal gramma should be fine, just add it near the end.

 

[fish clown]

I think I'll be adding the royal gramma at the end after reseaching a bit. Im also definently adding a diamond watchman goby. I've looked at goby for hours looking for the needs of them and what one to get. If you look them up on you tube their are some good videos of them blurring carrying sand in their mouth and think that's so funny so I'll be getting one and yes I do have lids on my tank; I noticed in half the treads I saw about a new one is that they jump out at some point. I'm going o replace my sand bed in about a week when the sand ships here because color(it's partially white with chunky black sand up to the size of an eraser), size and really just about everything else. I thought it would be much better to do it now rather than after all the fish are in. How long should I wait on adding fish after the new sand bed is in?

 

[fish clown]

I got my sand yersterday and Im planning on adding it friday or saterday after killing off the alage (esspesily cyano) I have in my tank through a three day no lights period which ive resheached and seems to work well with cyano. Once the new sand is in how long should I wait before adding livestock?

 

[fish clown]

Well I know it's been a while but today I visited my lfs to just test levels(which are all perfect now) and I've noticed their prices have dropped and their service has gotten incredibly better. Well any way I bought two firefish and 5 Banggai cardinals. I realy want to bread them because I think it could be a interesting process to watch, my plan is to start small, probably one pair so I'm letting them pair up and then I'll sell three of the ones so I only have one pair.

 

[SaltWaterGuy08]

I heard the longnose is very delicate

 

[nanoreefer1000]

the hi fin cardinals will kill each other when they become adults until there's one pair

 

[Rapide]

A friend of mine breeds Banggai cardinals, and it really isn't as easy as it sounds.
If you wish to breed them in the display tank, then you must get a Diadema setosum urchin. Then some of the fry may survive, otherwise it's going to be quite a task...

 

[fish clown]

A friend of mine breeds Banggai cardinals, and it really isn't as easy as it sounds.
If you wish to breed them in the display tank, then you must get a Diadema setosum urchin. Then some of the fry may survive, otherwise it's going to be quite a task...

I've done my homework on this and agree that in wont be as easy as it sounds but my plan is to get a 10-15 gallon tank with a sponge filter and feed them.... Well I forget what they are called but I remember they are the same thing as sea monkeys. I will feed them 2 to 3 times a day and you do that almost right after the " sea monkeys" hatch. Oh and once you notice the males moulth enlarged that pronaly means it holldinge the babies and so on day 23 you catch the male ( with some kind of scoop, not a net) and soon after he sould release the babies. That my plan for right now anyway.

 

[fish clown]

Ok so I'm going back and forth between butterflys while looking on live aquaria then I saw that many of the butterflys had a higher minimums aquarium size including the longnose and copperband which before were I believe was 75 and 50 in that order. Now on blue zoo aquatics it actully says 75 and 50 so im a bit confused on why live aquaria would bump that up. Does anyone know?

 

[fish clown]

Ok well here's an update, my current fish are; a flame angel, true perc clown, 2 chromis, a royal gramma, and two banggais. I have had a bit of bad luck with fish recently, my pink bar jump through a 1 in gap, my firefish have been eaten by a huge Sally light foot that has been removed, the other one disappeared, and last night my flame angel destroyed half my frogspawn in my tank!!!! I will not risk having one more coral eaten so I will be getting rid of it. I hate to say that and its my favorite fish but its not worth have hundreds of dollars on coral eaten. I will be rethinking my list now so help would be appreciated. I'd like to add these fish:
Yellow head jawfish
McCosker's Flasher Wrasse
Kole tang
Pinkbar goby