I need more fish to raise nitrate

Victor Nguyen · Nov 18, 2019

Hey guys,

I have a 90 gal tank. Currently, I have a yellow tang, 2 cardinals, 2 ocellaris clownfish, 5 chromis, 1 green mandarin dragonet, 1 six line, 2 anthias, 2 cleaner shrimps, 1 fire shrimp, and 1 firefish. What other fish do you recommend I should get. I like wrasses. What are some reef safe wrasses that you guys prefer? TIA for the input.

Wolf89 · Nov 18, 2019

1-3 more anthias
Vroliks wrasse
Grey headed wrasse
Dusky wrasse
Tomini tang

madweazl · Nov 18, 2019

Looks like you have about 14 fish in there; I'd be surprised if you could get many more without aggression issues.

LiveWire · Nov 18, 2019

Welcome to the REEF @Victor Nguyen!

Dragon52 · Nov 18, 2019

Dragon52 · Nov 18, 2019

madweazl said:
Looks like you have about 14 fish in there; I'd be surprised if you could get many more without aggression issues.

+1
i have about that number in my 185.

C. Eymann · Nov 18, 2019

Need to add at least one more anthias, they should ideally be kept in odd numbers, they should also be fed 3x+ a day.

If it were me, I would add three more anthias and ramp up feeding frequency.

dduby · Nov 18, 2019

Yellowtail Tamarin
Blue Star leopard
Yellow coris
McCosker's

You may have issues with your Six-Line though. Well known aggressor.

I did have a Melanurus on this list at first but I'm hesitate to recommend due to my own experience with one. It became a big time bully and I had to re-home. Others have had them with great success so.....

KrisReef · Nov 18, 2019

Filefish, feed the ones you have more, and if you’re adding a wrasse they jump, so keep a lid on it.

Golden headed sleeper if you have sand?

Victor Nguyen · Nov 18, 2019

Yeah. I like another tang too (either hippo or kole) but my yellow is very aggressive and it already killed 2 tangs. I tried to use the mirror method but that didn't work. Might have to re-home him.

My nitrate is 2.5-5. I like to keep it at 5-10 but last time when I try to dose potassium nitrate with tree stump removal my sps didn't like that much and some frags rtn.

Victor Nguyen · Nov 18, 2019

I heavily feed my fish twice a day with mysis shrimp and brine mix.

Wolf89 · Nov 18, 2019

Victor Nguyen said:
I heavily feed my fish twice a day with mysis shrimp and brine mix.

Feed a meatier food, like clam, squid, oyster, table shrimp, those two are basically exoskeleton and not much else

Jesterrace · Nov 19, 2019

For food I would go with LRS Reef Frenzy. Great stuff with a virtual buffet offered to your fish. As for the Anthias they definitely need to be fed multiple times per day. My Lyretail is a complete pig.