90 gallon FOWLR stocklist

Danikay · Oct 3, 2022

What would you put in a 90 gallon fish only with live rock tank?! How many fish, and what kinds? How

Mark Novack · Oct 3, 2022

How mature is the tank? Filtration?

What do you like? Color, form, variety or themed? Challenging or less challenging?

A theme I love that can be achieved quickly with minimum problems is wrasses. There are so many to choose from and most will live together easily. If the filtration is good its easy to keep a heavy stock and their sizes are great in a 90 gallon. In my experience, even the reputededly difficult wrasses are pretty easy. A huge advantage is they will allow you to keep a good clean up crew for the benefit of everyone.

But then who doesn't love a tank of angels? Smallish tank for that theme.

How? Slowly. Depending upon the size and species chosen, you might add one to three fish at first. Then wait two to three weeks for the next additions.

Danikay · Oct 3, 2022

So here’s the entire story. I started the hobby about a year and a half ago with a 55 gallon with hob filter. Then bought a used 150gallon about 9 months in because the layout of the 55 gallon made me was to pull my hair out. Then Lost all my fish this last winter due to a heater overheating while they were in a QT tank during the tank transfer.. Then decided I wasn’t going to keep just corals in 150 gallon tank and my boyfriend has a very large red devil cichlid that needed a bigger tank since he was outgrowing the 36 bow front tank he was in, he was going to be going to my 55 once my fish went to the 150. So I told him to just put “duke”the red devil cichlid in the 150 and id just go back to the 55. So I did. In the meantime I bought two little clowns for 10 bucks a piece because the tank was depressing too look at without fish. Then came across a 8 dollar damsel(biggest regret, As it’s annoying) then a month or two goes by and you know how it is.. my lfs had a baby blue hippo tang literally the size of a quarter and I fell in love so I got it. Knowing I was eventually going to either find duke another “smaller” less expensive tank to go into since it’s dumb for only 1 fish to occupy an entire, expensive 150 gallon tank .Then I found a good deal on a 90 gallon reef ready tank that came with a pro clear aquatics wet dry filter so I got it. then I had a decision to make keep the 150 gallon tank fresh water and use the 90 as saltwater or switch. The problem with the 150 is it has the most stupidest built in sump I’ve ever seen in my life. It has a drilled hole in the bottom of the sump, making it impossible to use a filter sock or roller so the filtration was lacking. I would have had to find a way to plug the hole and Replumb it but that would entail of me completely empty in the tank and then trying to move it away from the wall which it’s a huge tank I can’t move by myself and with it being freshwater we just don’t fill up the tank all the way and use a sponge filter or just use the 90 gallon that was ready to go all I had to do was put bulkheads in and check valves and attach the hose to my return pump and attach it too the inlet on the wet/dry filter. So I went that way. I kind of customized it a little too make it more sump-like since we’re/dry filters seem to be hated on in the reefing community. Meanwhile the first week of everybody in the 90 I had a green water break out, which was my own fault I should have painted the side panel black right from the get go knowing it was going to be in a basement beside a sliding glass door that leads to outside. Knowing the effects of putting a tank by the window. Anyways the green water got horrible, so bad. Lost all my coral. I threw in the towel. Decided I was done spending money on coral beings coral comes to me to die. I’ll just do a fish only tank until I get this whole process on a schedule which I lack horribly knowing now I can get some of the cool fish you can’t have in reef tanks. My boyfriend and I visit the lfs and they had a humu humu trigger for 60 bucks literally like the 2nd cheapest fish they had aside from normal clowns., ive always wanted a trigger and my boyfriend thought it was ****** which impressed me because he doesn’t pay much attention to my tank or what’s in it but a month or so goes by and the boyfriend sends me to the store by myself because his fish needed food and the humu humu was still there, I had my boyfriends debit card and well I bought it.

So the whole point is am I now tapped out for fish I can have in the tank. I know the possibilities of the clowns and damsel disappearing eventually when the trigger gets a little bigger are real. I’m not too entirely attached to them. For the three fish I only spent like 30 bucks so it is what it is. My blue hippie is prolly about the size of a 50 cent piece now. My trigger is prolly roughly 4 inches…

Sorry the pictures suck the lens on my iPhone is cracked and makes the pictures really blurry and my water is a little cloudy. I know I need a UV light, would prolly fix the water issue just haven’t had the money to buy one yet. My birthdays in three weeks so fingers crossed lol

Danikay · Oct 3, 2022

I basically just want a nice tank to watch that makes up for the lack of the beautiful corals I once had because that’s my true goal one day is too be able to successfully keep coral and as of now or the foreseeable future it will just be fish only but one day maybe I’ll get another tank for a reef

Danikay · Oct 3, 2022

I also Realize eventually the blue hippo will grow out of this 90 as they it’s more humane to keep them in a much larger tank.

Mark Novack · Oct 4, 2022

A 2" clown trigger would go nicely with the Picasso but it will outgrow the tank quickly. I never minded changing fish. I doubt it will eat other fish.