Help stock my tank (fish and coral)

[sse1990]

Once my 90 gallon is finished being cycled, I want to start filling it up with a few inhabitants. I would like to at least get a pair of clown fish and a blue tang. I should be able to keep the blue tang for 4-5 years before it outgrows the tank and I need to rehome it.

I’m open to suggestions on both fish and coral. Pictures with names would be great.
Here is my boring lifeless tank.

 

[reefpunk707]

Some kind of wrasse! Nice looking setup!

 

[sse1990]

Once my tank is cycled, this is what will be going into my tank. Order placed and waiting on my tank cycle now.


Wwc purple monster 2-3p
Utter chaos 2-3p
Rasta 2-3p
Red people eaters 2-3p
Lunar eclipse 2-3p
Branching GSP Sm. Frag
Mexican turbo snail x10
Aussie Purple Torch
Branching Frogspawn 2HD

 

[Marco S]

I would not recommend any Euphylia in a newly cycled tank. When I started my coral QT I stocked some very expensive Euphylia as well as some cheaper ones and they all died within the 76 day QT time. The only coral that survived were my Zoas and a couple Ricordias. As the tank matured I started doing better and now after well over a year anything I put in it thrives so it definitely was the fact that the tank was too new for them since I do not do anything different now then I did then.

Just my two cents though. ;Happy

 

[Bossman]

Please don't tell anyone, but I have a Blue Tang in a Reefer 260 which is about 55 gallons. Over 2 years now. He was very small when I put him in, and has grown about 4 inches now. Most of it's growth came quick and then slowed dramatically.

He's no where close to where I would rehome him. Seems very comfortable in the tank, no aggression.

 

[Marco S]

Please don't tell anyone, but I have a Blue Tang in a Reefer 260 which is about 55 gallons. Over 2 years now. He was very small when I put him in, and has grown about 4 inches now. Most of it's growth came quick and then slowed dramatically.

He's no where close to where I would rehome him. Seems very comfortable in the tank, no aggression.

I must really be overfeeding my fish because my Blue Tang has grown about 3.5 inches in under a year. It's in a Reefer 750XXL so about 160 gallons and I think I will probably need to re-home it in a couple years. It is in a tank full of Tangs so I can't say the same about no aggression, but it is definitely one of the less aggressive Tangs I have.