What fish to restock 800L reef tank

Mortie31 · Nov 6, 2018

Hi All
Recently I lost all of my fish to velvet, the details are in my tank thread, but it was a truly humbling and haunting experience for me. I’m currently fallow with the anticipation of restocking my tank starting over Xmas. I’ll be going a different way with my fish types this time, I will mainly be trying to keep pairs, but this is a new direction for me as previously I had one of everything...my tank is a mature SPS reef with loads of rockwork.. This is the list of fish I’m getting so far.
A Pair of pearlscale butterflies
Pair of Regal Angels
Harem of anthias (had lyretails before)
Possibly a pair of blue throat triggers
Pair of maroon clownfish
A majestic angel
I’d like a pair of wrasses but have no idea as never had them before
I’d love a pair of flame angels but not optimistic on success rate.
Please make any suggestions for other fish that form pairs

Coralreefer1 · Nov 6, 2018

Sorry to hear about your tank debacle!
As for restocking and starting over again.
With a reef tank housing SPS corals, some of the fish in your list are not very suitable to reef life. Your Regal and Majestic Angels, Butterflyfish and certain Wrasses could be problematic in a reef biotope. Anthias’ are fine though they need to be fed numerous times over the course of the day due to their high metabolism. Blue Throat Triggers are one of the more docile of Triggers along with the Niger and the Pink Tail. Care will have to be addressed with adding the two Pomocanthus Angels due to potential aggression. As for the Flames, you want to ensure you have a pair and again aggression could be portrayed in the tank. Be careful with Flames and corals as the possibility of them having a snack is not out of the question.
There is such a plethora of ideally suited fish and inverts out there for a reef tank...
Good luck reestablishing your tank.

Mortie31 · Nov 7, 2018

Coralreefer1 said:
Sorry to hear about your tank debacle!
As for restocking and starting over again.
With a reef tank housing SPS corals, some of the fish in your list are not very suitable to reef life. Your Regal and Majestic Angels, Butterflyfish and certain Wrasses could be problematic in a reef biotope. Anthias’ are fine though they need to be fed numerous times over the course of the day due to their high metabolism. Blue Throat Triggers are one of the more docile of Triggers along with the Niger and the Pink Tail. Care will have to be addressed with adding the two Pomocanthus Angels due to potential aggression. As for the Flames, you want to ensure you have a pair and again aggression could be portrayed in the tank. Be careful with Flames and corals as the possibility of them having a snack is not out of the question.
There is such a plethora of ideally suited fish and inverts out there for a reef tank...
Good luck reestablishing your tank.

Thx coralreefer, I had all of the above angels and butterflies in my tank before the velvet issue, but only 1 of each and had no issue with them eating my corals, I’ve seen pairs of regales and pearlscales in tanks, but not many flames and i certainly wouldn’t put any of them in a tank full of Scollies and acans, but more and more were seeing angels in particular, in SPS systems.. It’s suggestions for other fish that pair that I’m really looking for as my next venture.