Looking for advice on stocking list for 75gal

[immaman2011]

Hey guys goodmorning!!,

I am currently cycling a 75 gal fish only tank, and want to create a list of fish to slowly add into the tank....of course after it's properly cycled and 100% water change after.

So far in my current 2 year established tank i have a juvenile springeri damsel, juvenile white sleeper blue dot goby, and an adult firefish. With 2 medium sized skunk cleaner shrimp, 1 small emerald crab, and 3 hermit crabs. No snails. Doing this mostly to give them more room and have a nicer setup. Got a 300w heater in there, with 80 pounds of live ocean sand, 70 pounds of live dry rock, 2 800gph pumps, and 2 aquaclear ac110 filters.

Royal Gramma.
Citron clown goby.
One spot foxface.
Yellow coris wrasse.
Banggai cardinal fish.
Starry blenny.
Black nox Angelfish.

Was thinking of adding this list slowly to the tank after the main 3 are added in. Giving it some time before I add anything to the tank, this is just a speculate list. The banggai and starry may or may not end up in there not too sure about those. But I tried to make the list least to most aggressive.

What do you guys think? Any advice on the fish list?

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

Well the I reccomend you tick of the foxface and maybe also the angel as it is a hit or pass with corals. Other than that, its great

 

[immaman2011]

Well the I reccomend you tick of the foxface and maybe also the angel as it is a hit or pass with corals. Other than that, its great

Yeah i agree but it'll be a fish only tank. I've never had luck with corals lol. Hermits and snails constantly knock them down. And sand sifter knocks them down too ive seen.

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

If you are open to some more fish, some fish i recommend are, Flame Hawkfish, And aptasia eating file fish( just in case). But you should go with what you want so just listen your self and do research and you should be fine.

 

[immaman2011]

If you are open to some more fish, some fish i recommend are, Flame Hawkfish, And aptasia eating file fish( just in case). But you should go with what you want so just listen your self and do research and you should be fine.

I may or may not replace the banggai with the filefish you recommended. I was thinking about that actually. How hard is it to care for a filefish? I have no experience with them. Also I thought hawkfish were really aggressive towards smaller fish, and harder to feed cause they are bottom dwellers? Also no experience with those lol.

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

Well the file fish is one of the easiest fish i've ever kept so recommend that and thats pretty true about the hawkfish so you may or may not go with it .

 

[immaman2011]

Well the file fish is one of the easiest fish i've ever kept so recommend that and thats pretty true about the hawkfish so you may or may not go with it .

Ill definitely switch the banggai and filefish then. Sounds good to me! My wife wants the starry but don't know if in the long run the starry and blue spot goby will fight when they are bigger.

 

[i cant think]

I may or may not replace the banggai with the filefish you recommended. I was thinking about that actually. How hard is it to care for a filefish? I have no experience with them. Also I thought hawkfish were really aggressive towards smaller fish, and harder to feed cause they are bottom dwellers? Also no experience with those lol.

Hawkfish tend to be aggressive towards many different fish, my current experience is they hate wrasses with a passion - I’ve yet to have a single one not kill a wrasse.

Ill definitely switch the banggai and filefish then. Sounds good to me! My wife wants the starry but don't know if in the long run the starry and blue spot goby will fight when they are bigger.

Generally Blennies get along with most species, you mainly hit issues when Blennies are mixed together. I’d be surprised if a Blenny went for a goby - it’s not common unless they take up the exact same space in the tank.

 

[immaman2011]

Hawkfish tend to be aggressive towards many different fish, my current experience is they hate wrasses with a passion - I’ve yet to have a single one not kill a wrasse.

Generally Blennies get along with most species, you mainly hit issues when Blennies are mixed together. I’d be surprised if a Blenny went for a goby - it’s not common unless they take up the exact same space in the tank.

Ahhh, no hawkfish then.

And for the blenny/goby thing....goby is pretty spicy as is. Isn't afraid of any of the current tank mates. Will flare mouth in dramatics lol. So should be okay.