Help with stocking 150 tall mixed reef

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I have upgrade from 75 to 150 tall aquarium. I have no ideas what I want to do fish-wise.

I have a mixed reef setup with softies (zoas, leathers, star polyps), LPS (Galaxia, frogspawn, etc) and a few SPS frags I'm experimenting with (spongodes, stylopora, slinger and montipora).

Currently, all I have is 2 firefish, a 6 line wrasse and a couple of shrimp-non of which I am attached to.

Not sure what direction I want to go. Was curious to know some your stocking plans. I do love jawfish (tried before but with an over the back setup previously, I was never able to seal the top well enough).

After having my old tank for 13 years, I kind of feel like I would like to try something a little different...
 
I am working on stocking my 150 as well. upgraded from a 95gal to a 72" long 150 gal.
I already have a majestic angel, 2 wyoming white clowns, 1 baby hippo tang, 3 clams, 3 goniopora, 1 branching hammer, 1 frogspawn.
I just ordered 2 black ocellaris, 2 gold stripe maroons, 1 med white cheek tang, 1 changing blue face angel small.
with 72" swimming space there is plenty of swimming room in there for them.
right now the only fish that actually uses the swimming space is my majestic, the tang hangs with the clowns and they all stay in their corner even if their food floats away.
I know i take a risk with angels and clams/corals but my majestic has been good for the last year that i have had her. So far so good.
Hopefully the blue face follows her lead.
Another worry is the maroons being aggressive but with all that space if they cant live in the same corner they can chose the other side.
I also ordered a bubble tip nem and an aussie elegance coral. They will be placed on opposite sides, so the clown will have their choices of where to host.
 
Had bubble tip with a big maroon clown years back. Once she hosted, she was a model tankmate as long as the other fish kept their distance. My nem got too huge and I traded them in together.

I have always wanted to try a large angel and have been reading up on them. I do like majestic angels... Even though my tank is only 48, I have a lot of height. I am kind of afraid to get larger tangs. I have never owned a yellow tang so I may try one this go around. I have had a regal tang (lived almost 10 years) and replaced him with a powder blue which caught ich after the tank upgrade and took my clown and bangais with him.

Wish I had room for the 6 " tank. The tall is cool but I basically have to go swimming to clean the glass. I am thinking about a school of smaller free swimming fish to occupy the open water above the rock.

Any suggestions there?
 

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