Looking for help with selecting a tank

[Ordie23]

What are your setup suggestions for a space that is 45"×36"?

 

[TX_REEF]

I am definitely trying purchase captive bred fish if possible. I am also planning to get the fish slowly and not just all at once. Most likely go cheapest to more expensive. Also the coral beauty is a beautiful fish we decided to replace one of the others with it.

awesome. Get your whole list planned out, then decide tank size. Then, you want to introduce the fish in order of aggression, with the most aggressive fish added last. For example, I have a coral beauty in my tank. When I added my yellow tang, the coral beauty tried to murder him and I had to capture the coral beauty and keep him in an isolation box for a couple weeks to allow him to get used to the new addition. This could have been avoided if I added the baby yellow tang prior to adding the coral beauty.

 

[Ordie23]

awesome. Get your whole list planned out, then decide tank size. Then, you want to introduce the fish in order of aggression, with the most aggressive fish added last. For example, I have a coral beauty in my tank. When I added my yellow tang, the coral beauty tried to murder him and I had to capture the coral beauty and keep him in an isolation box for a couple weeks to allow him to get used to the new addition. This could have been avoided if I added the baby yellow tang prior to adding the coral beauty.

Will do. The current list is pair of clown fish, kole tang ( the eyes got me), coral beauty, pair Azul damsels, mandarin dragonete goby. From the tanks i have found between waterbox, red Sea and reef Octopus ( Looking for that all in one option so I'm not going down an even bigger rabbit hole of pumps and all that) they hold around 49 gallons of water so am I in the ballpark of the right size tank for these guys?

 

[TX_REEF]

Kole tangs are great, keep in mind they come in a few different flavors, such as yellow eye and blue eye.

I'd steer clear of red sea, unfortunately there are many instances of tank seam failure and sub-par customer support. Of the options presented, I'd go with waterbox. I think these systems would be perfect for you and would be fine for the fish list you mentioned (added slowly, of course):

https://waterboxaquariums.com/colle...s/marine-x90-3-v2?_pos=2&_fid=dd695a48f&_ss=c
https://waterboxaquariums.com/colle...65-4-plus-edition?_pos=6&_fid=dd695a48f&_ss=c

 

[Jekyl]

No worries understandable. During my dive down the rabbit hole of learning I did read that 1" of fish to 10 gal of water. Not sure if that is correct or not but that is what I know currently. Now what I don't know is if that also applies to the coral and to the clean up crew as well.

Nope. Good place to look for tank size recommendations is liveaquaria.com and drreefsquarantinedfish.com

Beyond that aggression of species and how you create your aquascape play a large role. Less rocks = less fish

 

[Ordie23]

Nope. Good place to look for tank size recommendations is liveaquaria.com and drreefsquarantinedfish.com

Beyond that aggression of species and how you create your aquascape play a large role. Less rocks = less fish

Thank you for the information. It is appreciated.

 

[Ordie23]

Kole tangs are great, keep in mind they come in a few different flavors, such as yellow eye and blue eye.

I'd steer clear of red sea, unfortunately there are many instances of tank seam failure and sub-par customer support. Of the options presented, I'd go with waterbox. I think these systems would be perfect for you and would be fine for the fish list you mentioned (added slowly, of course):

https://waterboxaquariums.com/colle...s/marine-x90-3-v2?_pos=2&_fid=dd695a48f&_ss=c
https://waterboxaquariums.com/colle...65-4-plus-edition?_pos=6&_fid=dd695a48f&_ss=c

I was looking at the aio 65.4 first but it is 47". I could give my tv stand a shove down to make the room. Price is nice too.