Stocking advise for 72 bow display tank.

Stocking advise for 72 bow display tank.

  • Yes that sounds fine

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  • No too much bioload.

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Reefkid99

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Hey Reef Central, I'm looking to get some advise on stocking my tank as I am fairly new to the hobby and have only been keeping reef tanks for around 8 months, but have had chilids and other fw fish for around 2-3 years. I recently had a massive tank crash in all three of my tanks because of our basement getting redone and toxicosis of the water due to chemicals used near the tank during the remodeling and heavy fumes in the air. I have decided to cut my losses and just have one tank for now. 80lbs argonite sand, 50lbs live rock 30 lbs base. I have an aqueon 75 hob filter with carbon, a aqua clear hob 50, and an aquatop canister filter (don't know model info off top of head but 100-150 gph), I run a t5 coral light along with a led strip for color and night lighting. In addition I have a reef octopus hob 100 protein skimmer on the way from bulk reef supply. These are the fish I plan to add please let me know if this stock list sounds okay and appropriate for my setup. Flame angle, coral beauty, onespot foxface, ocellaris clown pair, cleaner shrimp, linckia sea star, and a carpenter's flasher wrasse,Kobe yellow eye tang, purplefirefish, and blue dot jawfish. I know this is a lot of fish but I think my tank and setup can handle the bioload and I would add these over a year or so and add corals and eventually an ananome. Thank you for any advise you have to offer and happy fishkeeping :)
 
I wouldn't add the jawfish or the starfish. The jawfish is from cooler waters and long term results at higher temperatures are not good. Linkia star fish almost always starve in reef aquariums. I would also keep a pair of one type of dwarf angel instead two different types. Make sure to use a quarantine tank.
 
I wouldn't add the jawfish or the starfish. The jawfish is from cooler waters and long term results at higher temperatures are not good. Linkia star fish almost always starve in reef aquariums. I would also keep a pair of one type of dwarf angel instead two different types. Make sure to use a quarantine tank.



Okay I'll skip the jawfish, and the sea star and go with a pincushion urchin instead.


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Sorry, but between the foxface, kole, coral beauty and flame, that's a lot of load in a 72 gallon....just my 2 cents....
 
Sorry, but between the foxface, kole, coral beauty and flame, that's a lot of load in a 72 gallon....just my 2 cents....



That's what I was thinking. I think I'm going to go with foxface coral beauty and flame angle skip the kole. Does that sound doable? I just love those three fish


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