Advice on fish stocking

[fish fish fish]

My tank 73gallon with a 20gallon sump currently has a pair of clowns, a one spot fox face rabbitfish, firefish,and a carpenter flasher wrasse
my plan (in order) is
-a mandarin goby (I will make a pod culture once more pod eating fish get added)
-fairy wrasse
-royal gramma
-copperband butterfly fish
-bristletooth tang
My tank is a few years old with ~90lb of live rock and multiple caves. In my sump theres like 5 gallon section dedicated to chaeto growth. I also have protein skimmer, many filter socks and sponges for filtration.
Am I pushing it with the copperband butterfly fish and tang or should i be fine.

 

[cdemoss01]

My tank 73gallon with a 20gallon sump currently has a pair of clowns, a one spot fox face rabbitfish, firefish,and a carpenter flasher wrasse
my plan (in order) is
-a mandarin goby (I will make a pod culture once more pod eating fish get added)
-fairy wrasse
-royal gramma
-copperband butterfly fish
-bristletooth tang
My tank is a few years old with ~90lb of live rock and multiple caves. In my sump theres like 5 gallon section dedicated to chaeto growth. I also have protein skimmer, many filter socks and sponges for filtration.
Am I pushing it with the copperband butterfly fish and tang or should i be fine.

It sounds like you may overstock your tank as you already have 5 fish, royal grammas are great. Another wrasse could be risky. If you were to go with more fish Id go with the royal, the tang and the mandarin (just make sure you have lots of pods). Copperband is pushing it, very hard to take care of by the way

 

[cdemoss01]

Just wanted to add copper bands usually have 120 all the way up to 200 gallon tanks!

 

[fish fish fish]

Why do copperbands need such large areas? They don't seem too active. Also I'm prepared for the taking care part of the copperband.

 

[cdemoss01]

Why do copperbands need such large areas? They don't seem too active. Also I'm prepared for the taking care part of the copperband.

You see. Copper bands in the wild like to pick at rocks all day and swim around. If they don't have many rocks and much space the less happy they get etc. now I'm not saying you can't keep it but having smaller tanks just lower your chances of success.

 

[fish fish fish]

You see. Copper bands in the wild like to pick at rocks all day and swim around. If they don't have many rocks and much space the less happy they get etc. now I'm not saying you can't keep it but having smaller tanks just lower your chances of success

My tank is on the very high end of rock to gallon ratio, and I have a pod cultivation bottle, do you think that would be enough or would my future mandarin compete with it until one of them dies.

 

[cdemoss01]

My tank is on the very high end of rock to gallon ratio, and I have a pod cultivation bottle, do you think that would be enough or would my future mandarin compete with it until one of them dies.

The future mandrin would compete but it doesn't necessarily mean your butterfly would die. I say you need a 2nd opinion.