Help me choose my next fish. Please.

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Right now I have a 135 gallon tank that has been established for 1 year and 3 months. It is currently a lps/softie reef and the current inhabitants:
Male blue jaw trigger
Yellow tang
Midas blenny
Mystery wrasse
Carpenters flasher
Yellow coris wrasse
Starcki damsel
Purple firefish
2 ocellaris clowns
Bangaii cardinal
Watchman goby

I have been all over the map on what I want. I have researched copperband butterflyfish, different types of anthias, and more wrasses. So I need a little help. Help me and give me ideas on what my next fish should be or could be. Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
 

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Copperband is a great fish.
[SIZE=-2]Whitecheek Tang
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Moorish Idol
Mustard Surgeonfish
Spot Face Surgeonfish
 
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Copperband is a great fish.
[SIZE=-2]Whitecheek Tang
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Moorish Idol
Mustard Surgeonfish
Spot Face Surgeonfish

I have considered a white cheek tang I'm just worried about tang to tang aggression. Would the yellow and white cheek get along even though the yellow has been established for a while?
 

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Are you able to move the tank around a bit before adding the White Cheek? If you are, then that will take care of the aggresion, as the Yellow will not have any territory to defend, it will be new to them all.
 
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Are you able to move the tank around a bit before adding the White Cheek? If you are, then that will take care of the aggresion, as the Yellow will not have any territory to defend, it will be new to them all.

We finally got the rock work the way we like it but I could possibly catch the yellow pretty easily and send it to the sump a bit. My yellow tang is a mean one it attacks my turkey baster when I spot feed my corals haha it's crazy. Would a copperband stand a chance being added this late in the stocking list I know they are pretty passive?

Thanks for everyone's help.
 

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If you can't move the rock work around, your pretty much stuck with your stocking list. I've had Yellows before, I add them last, they are some mean lil dudes.
 
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If you can't move the rock work around, your pretty much stuck with your stocking list. I've had Yellows before, I add them last, they are some mean lil dudes.

That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for your help, the yellow tang is the wife's fish too so that fish will prob never leave haha.
 

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