fish stocking plan for 75g

[obsessivereeferCH]

i am trying to figure out how i should go about my stocking plan Qt wise. this is the list so far.
1 round of qt
-firefish
-hi-fin goby/shrimp pair
-yellow coris wrasse
2 round of qt
-midas blenny
-royal gramma
- pair of ocellaris clownfish
3 round qt
-long nose hawkfish
4 round qt
- maybe a melanurus wrasse?
5 round qt
after 6-8 months a captive bred mandarin.
after a year leopard wrasse?
QTing in a 20 long for min of 4 weeks w/meds.
anything you would do different? and any swaps or nonos on the fish?
i will have a 1 time use tubberware container with sand for wrasses

 

[rayadog]

So I can’t speak in facts but I wonder if there’d be an issue adding wrasses at different times and if there’s be enough niche and territory for all of them and the mandarin. And would adding the Mandarin only after 6-8 months be a struggle with the coris wrasse and long nose hawkfish already decimating your microfauna? I literally don’t know though, just what I would look into.

I just got a yellow coris wrasse for my new 75 and lil dude or dudette is hunting 24/7 it seems. Might be an exaggeration but still. Could’ve just been starved from the being shipped/house in the store.

This is really a solid thought out plan. Are you using copper or not?

 

[Cthulukelele]

You're definitely tempting fate with the pistol shrimp and both the melanarus wrasse, yellow coris wrasse, and the longnose hawkfish as they get older as well as a lot of other inverts in your tank. Also those are both a lot of pod hunting to really ever try a mandarin in a 75 gallon tank.

IMO just scratch the melanarus, yellow coris, and mandarin and get the first solid eating over weeks leopard wrasse at your LFS

 

[obsessivereeferCH]

You're definitely tempting fate with the pistol shrimp and both the melanarus wrasse, yellow coris wrasse, and the longnose hawkfish as they get older as well as a lot of other inverts in your tank. Also those are both a lot of pod hunting to really ever try a mandarin in a 75 gallon tank.

IMO just scratch the melanarus, yellow coris, and mandarin and get the first solid eating over weeks leopard wrasse at your LFS

alright thanks! do you still qt the leopard wrasse?

 

[obsessivereeferCH]

So I can’t speak in facts but I wonder if there’d be an issue adding wrasses at different times and if there’s be enough niche and territory for all of them and the mandarin. And would adding the Mandarin only after 6-8 months be a struggle with the coris wrasse and long nose hawkfish already decimating your microfauna? I literally don’t know though, just what I would look into.

I just got a yellow coris wrasse for my new 75 and lil dude or dudette is hunting 24/7 it seems. Might be an exaggeration but still. Could’ve just been starved from the being shipped/house in the store.

This is really a solid thought out plan. Are you using copper or not?

the plan is to use copper power at a 2.0 level for the wrasse after a week of observation, keeping it level with hanna checkers. then same process but at 2.25-2.5 for other fish

 

[Cthulukelele]

alright thanks! do you still qt the leopard wrasse?

In general leopard wrasse do terribly in qt. If you are willing to risk it, they're one of the fish that MOST benefit from direct addition to a display tank