Hello Jesse, I'm the guy that you bought the tank from in Moore. My advice would be to go with the fish that are listed as easy to keep and hardy... We all have times when we don't take as good of care of our tank as we should. You know when it is time for finals... I liked the tank the best when I had a yellow tail blue damsel, 2 oscellaris clowns, yellow tang, blue hippo tang, flame hawk, 3 green chromis, mandarin, and a lawn mower blenny. I think that was the best color combination that I've ever had, and they all seemed to get along great. Ask people what fish they have had in their tanks the longest. As for me, I've had the yellow tail damsel for probably 4 or 5 years, he's been through lots of bullies, one of my original fish, when he dies, I'll shed a tear.... My favorite fish is the flame hawk, beautiflul red color, he would set and watch me watching the tank, if I would move to the other side, he would move also, he had lots of personality. So pick fish that "YOU" like and are hardy, and on sale..... Ben
stocking a 75
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After some more thought I really want to add some shrimp to the tank later on so the Trigger is out. I would really like to get a school of the same fish together. What are some good schooling fish that would fit in a 75 gallon that would also fit with the fish below.
clown pair
jawfish
mandarin
Fridmani Pseudochromis (maybe)
Anthias (mabye)
clown pair
jawfish
mandarin
Fridmani Pseudochromis (maybe)
Anthias (mabye)
Travis L. Stevens
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Chromis: Blue, Green, and Purple are common and pretty
Travis L. Stevens
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Damsels are mean. Chromis establish a pecking order between themselves. The one that you see in my tank is messing with my clownfish simply because he is the only one in there right now and that he was the first established fish in my tank. He thinks he rules it.
Travis L. Stevens
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Personally, I wouldn't mix colors. I would put 5-6 in a 75g. That's quite a few though. The odd numbers isn't always true. It is said to decrease aggression because each individual is preoccupied with more than one other. But I really don't know if I follow that. I've had even number of chromis on multiple occassions with different Chromis and they even seem calmer. But regardless, I don't think fish can count.
dugg
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Of the list you have so far, i would scratch a few off.
clown pair- fine
jawfish- Can be very messy digging the sand and shifting or collapsing the rockwork
mandarin- Needs atleast 100 to 150 lbs of liverock very well established with billions of pods, or it is a guaranteed death by starvation.
Fridmani Pseudochromis (maybe)- fine, but can become very aggressive and hard to remove if that happens.
Anthias (mabye)-They are a schooling fish, and require feedings several times per day. This makes for a very dirty algae filled system unless you have them in a large 150 to 200 gallon + tank with an excellent skimmer.
Alternatives:
The jawfish i would replace with a yellow watchman goby. He will sift sand and has a personality without being a pain.
The Manderine, in my opinion shouldn't even be sold in the hobby due to it's almost immpossible feeding needs. I would say 98% of the ones sold starve to death.
The anthias, really require a very large system, maybe consider a long fin fairy wrasse instead. Same color basicly, but much easier to keep, and very beautiful.
clown pair- fine
jawfish- Can be very messy digging the sand and shifting or collapsing the rockwork
mandarin- Needs atleast 100 to 150 lbs of liverock very well established with billions of pods, or it is a guaranteed death by starvation.
Fridmani Pseudochromis (maybe)- fine, but can become very aggressive and hard to remove if that happens.
Anthias (mabye)-They are a schooling fish, and require feedings several times per day. This makes for a very dirty algae filled system unless you have them in a large 150 to 200 gallon + tank with an excellent skimmer.
Alternatives:
The jawfish i would replace with a yellow watchman goby. He will sift sand and has a personality without being a pain.
The Manderine, in my opinion shouldn't even be sold in the hobby due to it's almost immpossible feeding needs. I would say 98% of the ones sold starve to death.
The anthias, really require a very large system, maybe consider a long fin fairy wrasse instead. Same color basicly, but much easier to keep, and very beautiful.
djc1026
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I have to say, that I keep a Niger in my 75. He's still rather small at about 4" total length. He eats an occasional snail and is the only fish that routinely pulls up to my cleaner to be cleaned, including in his mouth. Granted my cleaner shrimp was in the tank before he was and is longer than he is, but it's a pretty cool thing to watch the Niger pull up to the cleaning station and see the shrimp go to work. At times, I think the shrimp is too rough because the Niger will pull away abruptly like "Ouch, that last touch hurt."
Now, I'm not saying triggers won't eat shrimp, but mine have been together for nearly a year now and the shrimp was established before the trigger.
Dave
Now, I'm not saying triggers won't eat shrimp, but mine have been together for nearly a year now and the shrimp was established before the trigger.
Dave
I have a fuge and a DSB in the main tank too. I know that mandarins can be hard to keep. I'm going to make sure I have a very good pod population and I'm going to be using phyto to keep the population up. I also have around 140lbs of LR. The mandarin would be the last fish I add to the tank too. My guess is that I would add it around the time I add an anemone so it will prob be 6+ months from now.
I think a jawfish would be really cool but the more I read up on it the more I think a goby or blenny of some sort would be better.
As much as I want a Niger I just don't want to take the chance of him eating any of the cleanup crew. Unless you want to give me yours Dave?
I think a jawfish would be really cool but the more I read up on it the more I think a goby or blenny of some sort would be better.
As much as I want a Niger I just don't want to take the chance of him eating any of the cleanup crew. Unless you want to give me yours Dave?
