75 Gallon Stocking List / Ideas

[billswin99]

Got a 75 Gallon set up and cycling 48" x 21" x 18"

Have a few fish I really like but not sure if they will work together. Also going to have a clean up crew with snails and crabs maybe a shrimp or two.

Yellow Tang
Coral Beauty Angelfish
Clown is 1 or 2 recommended?
Royal Gramma
Raccoon Butterflyfish or One spotted Fox Face
Blue Green reef Chromus - was thinking 3? want a schooling fish if possible
Blue Spotted Puffer (heard they don't mess with the cleaners if kept full?)

These are the fish I like the most, any help is appreciated. If you have any recommendations I am all ears.

 

[Oceanwave45]

Flame angels are very pretty too!!

 

[Maritimer]

Is this to be a FOWLR or reef?

Raccoon butterflies delight in snacking on majano anemones ... but they also seem to enjoy the taste of many varieties of corals.

Clownfish are often more aggressive in pairs - but also more interesting to observe.

Chromis have a reputation for fragility - they're _horribly_ susceptible to Uronema, and often (especially in smaller groups) pick at one another until only one remains. Unless you're a fan of the "Highlander" series, I'd think about another fish. Have you looked a zebra or blue gudgeon dartfish?

Another thought - if acquired small and at the same time, many folks have been successful in keeping royal grammas as a harem group of three or so.

~Bruce

 

[billswin99]

Yes FOWLR is the plan. I will drop the chromus, just wanted some smaller fish that might school.

Worried that the tang, angelfish and butterfly fish might not get along or be to much?

 

[Mikedawg]

Got a 75 Gallon set up and cycling 48" x 21" x 18"

Have a few fish I really like but not sure if they will work together. Also going to have a clean up crew with snails and crabs maybe a shrimp or two.

Yellow Tang
Coral Beauty Angelfish
Clown is 1 or 2 recommended?
Royal Gramma
Raccoon Butterflyfish or One spotted Fox Face
Blue Green reef Chromus - was thinking 3? want a schooling fish if possible
Blue Spotted Puffer (heard they don't mess with the cleaners if kept full?)

These are the fish I like the most, any help is appreciated. If you have any recommendations I am all ears.

Like your choices; have you thought about a long nosed hawk? Colors different from what you're considering and have an interesting way of sitting on rockwork, corals watching their tankmates go by.

 

[Mikedawg]

Is this to be a FOWLR or reef?

Raccoon butterflies delight in snacking on majano anemones ... but they also seem to enjoy the taste of many varieties of corals.

Clownfish are often more aggressive in pairs - but also more interesting to observe.

Chromis have a reputation for fragility - they're _horribly_ susceptible to Uronema, and often (especially in smaller groups) pick at one another until only one remains. Unless you're a fan of the "Highlander" series, I'd think about another fish. Have you looked a zebra or blue gudgeon dartfish?

Another thought - if acquired small and at the same time, many folks have been successful in keeping royal grammas as a harem group of three or so.

~Bruce

+ 1 for the royal grammas; beautiful fish, hardy and play well with others.

 

[Maritimer]

Yes FOWLR is the plan. I will drop the chromus, just wanted some smaller fish that might school.

Worried that the tang, angelfish and butterfly fish might not get along or be to much?

I think you're gonna be fine with those three, I would add the tang last. Yellows can become quite territorial.

~Bruce

 

[Bluecbs]

Yup, butterfly first, angel and tang.
No guarantee on puffer w cucs, even for toby. My valentini gave my big cbs a gi joe haircut, and ate both pincers off a small blue cbs, just in time to rescue it......and wont bother big snails, small ones fair game...its just puffer predatory instinct...