Please check my fish stocking list. Getting ready to cycle and stock.

[Ferrell]

Well I finally got the 75 DT up and running for a week now. Parameters are stable, flow good, skimmer breaking in and ATK installed. it’s time for some life. Gonna cycle with Dr Tim’s one and only and two blue chomises.
Here is my wish and want list with maybe a few that will not work towards the end. It’s going to be a mainly LPS system.
I plan on stocking with pods after the initial cycle (good or bad?) and then gradually add CUC and more fish and corals as they become available. I’m partial to acans and favia but want different variety eventually. Here’s the list in stocking order:

2-Blue chromis or black bar chromis

Yellow watchman goby and shrimp

Orange spotted shrimp goby

Diamond goby (sand sifter)

Scooter blenny

Midas blenny

Chalk basslet

Fairy wrasse

2-Percula clowns

Flame hawk fish

Coral beauty pigmy angel

Yellow tang (small)

Powder blue tang (small)

All comments welcome and tangs may not work, although have kept them together before in a 100 FO and didn’t outgrow but started small.

 

[Big G]

Congratulations on getting the tank up and running.
1. Pods: great idea. Consider adding some chaeto with the pods.
2. CUC: great idea. Reef Cleaners is my go to source. Use their calculator; but since your tank is new, calculate for say a 25 gal. Beware of hermit crabs. They will kill your other snails.
3. Scooter Blenny: it needs lots of pods and algae to survive. I'd wait at least a year for this one.
4. Tangs: I wouldn't put either of those listed in a 75 (48" long tank). They really like to swim; so a 72" long tank would be better. Check out a Kole Tank, or other Bristletail tangs.

 

[Ferrell]

Thanks @Big G. Outside the scooter blenny and the tangs the order looks good?

 

[40B Knasty]

Yes, congrats to the new tank.
1) Algagen Tisbe pods can survive in a home aquarium. Tigger pods, there is a lot of mixed reviews & comments. Amphipods can sometimes be to big of a pod.
2) CUC, Start off small and find your balance. When the diatoms come. A fighting conch will help.
3) A regular scooter blenny will take to frozens a lot better than the red or ruby red. It is like the spotted mandarin vs the red or green. You can always setup a few baby brine shrimp hatcheries with a BBS feeding station in your tank. Very simple to make. You can look up how to make one or checkout my YouTube channel 40B Knasty. I have done a few videos lately how to keep a dragonet, start pods in a 5g, and BBS hatcheries.
4) The Tomini/Flamefin Tang is the smallest of the tangs.
5) 14 fish, I would add in the right order. Going to be a few sleep arrangements changed. Also not all at once so your tank can keep up with the bioload. Most likely going to add the angel last.
6) Sand sifting goby eats a lot of pods out of the sand bed. So that might hurt your chances of keeping a scooter dragonet.

 

[Big G]

Thanks @Big G. Outside the scooter blenny and the tangs the order looks good?

Have you checked out ORA captive bred clownfish. So many to choose from and they will be free of brooklynella disease. Cheers! Enjoy the build and QT everything.

 

[Ferrell]

@40B Knasty thanks. Yeah I know 14 is a lot but that was just a wish list. Not sure I want that many gobies either. As I am perusing sites I make notes. SO many nice fish. Want em all. Lol
As my LFS is two hours away I will probably only stock 1-2/month. So as not to overwhelm the bacteria. Slow rolling.
Any yes will quarantine EVERYTHING.