Community fish suggestions

[RWhitt907]

I've got a 75g display tank, and I was wondering what community fish would be good. I'm looking at going all in on a bunch of small fish rather than a few smaller fish with one or two "showcase fish". I really like having small groups. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Current stock is two Oscellaris Clowns, a pintail fairy wrasse and a pixy hawkfish.

 

[fishywishy]

Possum wrasse
Yasha
Randall goby
Carpenter or mcoskers wrasse
Banggai Cardinal
Royal gramma
Pearly jawfish
Firefish
YWG pistol pair
Midas blenny
Clown goby
Mandarin
Sapphire damsel

“Showcase fish”:
Jeweled leopard wrasse
Yellow tang
Fox face
Flame angel
Couple lyretail anthias
Copperband
Tomni tang
Marine betta

 

[RWhitt907]

Possum wrasse
Yasha
Randall goby
Carpenter or mcoskers wrasse
Banggai Cardinal
Royal gramma
Pearly jawfish
Firefish
YWG pistol pair
Midas blenny
Clown goby
Mandarin
Sapphire damsel

“Showcase fish”:
Jeweled leopard wrasse
Yellow tang
Fox face
Flame angel
Couple lyretail anthias
Copperband
Tomni tang
Marine betta

Love the Yasha goby. Had one before my crash. How do they do with a Diamond Goby or Blue Dotted Jawfish, along with the mandarin.
Midas Blenny is my wife's favorite. Definetly going to have. As well as 1 or 2 purple firefish.

 

[fishywishy]

Love the Yasha goby. Had one before my crash. How do they do with a Diamond Goby or Blue Dotted Jawfish, along with the mandarin.
Midas Blenny is my wife's favorite. Definetly going to have. As well as 1 or 2 purple firefish.

You can’t have blue spotted jawfish in warm water, they need cold water to thrive. But the yasha will be fine with a DWG and a mandarin.

 

[RWhitt907]

You can’t have blue spotted jawfish in warm water, they need cold water to thrive. But the yasha will be fine with a DWG and a mandarin.

Guess I gotta get a 2nd tank for cold water species then. I had no idea.

Do you think with my Pintail Wrasse, and eventually Naoko Wrasse, and the Diamond Goby + Yasha goby, a Mandarin would be able to survive? Those are a lot of pod eaters.

 

[DrkNMighty]

I find that my wrasses (pintail, golden, rose band, christmas) will hunt for pods occasionally but nowhere near the way that my mandarin in my smaller tank hunts all day. The only exception I have is my leopard wrasse, who I would say eats pods closer to the way a mandarin does.

 

[fishywishy]

Guess I gotta get a 2nd tank for cold water species then. I had no idea.

Do you think with my Pintail Wrasse, and eventually Naoko Wrasse, and the Diamond Goby + Yasha goby, a Mandarin would be able to survive? Those are a lot of pod eaters.

You definitely have to have a refugium if you want a mandarin, but like the other guy said, as long as they are well fed they only eat pods occasionally.

 

[RWhitt907]

You definitely have to have a refugium if you want a mandarin, but like the other guy said, as long as they are well fed they only eat pods occasionally.

Would a HOB converted to a fuge work?

 

[fishywishy]

Would a HOB converted to a fuge work?

Depends on how big it is. You probably need a pretty big one to support the mandarin.