Shrimp for a 75 gallon mixed reef

[Thalia]

Hello! I'm setting up my first tank and planning my livestock list. My husband loves inverts especially crabs and shrimp. My fish list include, sebae clowns, ywg, Scissor tail goby, white bellied wrasse, Bangaii cardinals, Springerii damsels and then maybe in a year or so mandarins or marine betta. I'm also planning for soft corals. I'd love shrimp suggestions and when I should think about adding them to the tank (with clean up crew, before fish, after fish). TYIA!

 

[lapin]

Add them before fish so they can establish a spot in the tank. Red fire shrimp or any species of cleaner shrimp are good.

 

[bradreef]

Cleaner is the best, but my wrasse eats them.

 

[kevgib67]

Skunk cleaners for personality, always out and about and always happy to clean your hand when it’s in the tank. Best looking is the blood red cleaner shrimp but very reclusive, probably only see it at feeding time. Peppermint shrimp are nocturnal, I only see mine when lights are off with a flashlight.

 

[Thalia]

Skunk cleaners for personality, always out and about and always happy to clean your hand when it’s in the tank. Best looking is the blood red cleaner shrimp but very reclusive, probably only see it at feeding time. Peppermint shrimp are nocturnal, I only see mine when lights are off with a flashlight.

I've been warned that peppermint shrimp might be bad for my planned anemone? Can you have more than 1 type of cleaner shrimp?

 

[Thalia]

Cleaner is the best, but my wrasse eats them.

What kind of wrasse do you have? I was planning on a white bellied...

 

[kevgib67]

I've been warned that peppermint shrimp might be bad for my planned anemone? Can you have more than 1 type of cleaner shrimp?

I have two skunks and one blood red, so yes. Oh I forgot because I never see it, at least one peppermint shrimp in a 32 gallon.

 

[bradreef]

What kind of wrasse do you have? I was planning on a white bellied...

Silver belly yellow. Supposed to be one of the safest

 

[Thalia]

Silver belly yellow. Supposed to be one of the safest

Oh that's sad

 

[Grouch]

I have two skunks and one blood red, so yes. Oh I forgot because I never see it, at least one peppermint shrimp in a 32 gallon.

I have 4 Keukenthali's and a Fire Red in my 75. The Red shrimp is the tank clown, day and night he's out and about, acting the fool. He and my Yellow Eye Kole are best buds and den together. I'm adding 2 skunks this weekend, and that's it for the shrimp. Fun to watch the shrimp with an algae pellet. It's a rugby game, and the winner will grab the pellet in his arms and run for a touchdown into the rocks, LOL. I have a yellow coris wrasse among a dozen other fish, but the whole tank is a peaceful community.