Stocking Options

[.OptimusPrime.]

So I have a 75 gallon that is fallow atm. Ich wiped out all my fish and I learned my lesson the hard way about QT.

I'm using this time to redo my tank as need to accommodate my potential stocking list. Will most likely go to reef so I also want things I can keep when I make the transition.

Stocklist(pretty much what I had before and planning on repurchasing):

2 - Ocellaris
1 - Gold Rimmed Tang
1 - Blue Dot Jawfish
1 - Skeletor Moray (Did not have this before. This is essentially what I want my new purchases to be based around.)

Potential purchases:
1 - Mandarin (maybe, I had a pair but they died due to the ich or hopefully not starvation)
1 - foxface or butterfly
1 - dottyback (orchid) or black cap basslet
1 - firefish?? (regular or Helfrichi)

That's all I have in mind. I prefer to have bright colors on the fish. Im sure 9 fish seems to be too many. I am willing to forgo a few, or change fish out.

Thanks

 

[.OptimusPrime.]

Nobody?

 

[small alien]

Firefish and dottybacks probably not a good mix.

You can plainly see when a mandarin is starving.

Fox face too big for 75.

I'd skip the tang and do a long nose butterfly.

Is that eel a fish eater?

 

[randomfishguy85]

the skeletor isnt a fish eater. Its a pebbletooth eel

 

[kirkaz]

I would still be a little worried about the Eel. Snowflakes are not fish eaters either, but when I moved from S Carolina and gave him to a friend, he ate a Damsal. That's a lot of small fish.

No expert, but do Mandarins compete with Jawfish as bottom dwellers?