Last fish Stocking list question?

bannerboxer

New Member
I have a 90 gallon tank, 100lbs live rock, 50lbs live sand. I am a new-be, as this is my first saltwater tank. Grew up with freshwater all my life. Tank has been up and running for about 9 months now, and so far have had NO big issues. I plan to make it a reef tank, but main focus is fish. I like the corals, and the hubby likes the fish, so we have both currently. I have mostly "easy" type corals like zoas, mushrooms, button polyps birdsnest, candycane coral, xenia (which is growing like a weed) and I got my first clam the other day. All corals are happy and growing well. I do have the usual cleanup crew as well. about 20 crabs, 2 turbos snails, 1 astrea snail, 5 nassarius snails. I also have a cleaner shrimp who loves to scavenge for the leftover foods. I have slowly been adding fish throughout this process. My currents stock list is: 1 yellow tang-med, 1 pajama cardinal fish-med, 1 firefish-med, 1 sleeper headed goby-med, 1 false perc-sm, and 1 green mandarin-med. The only fish currently that gets of any real size is the yellow tang, and I would like to add 1 last fish that will also be a "swimmer" and get to a nice size to be the other star of the tank other than the tang. I was debating between the dwarf flame angel or a juvenille emperor angel??? Any suggestions??? Any chance I could get both??
Kind comments are greatly appreciated!! Thanks
 

btldreef

Moderator
The dwarf angel is a far better option for that size tank, especially since you have corals. You might want to also consider a wrasse of some sort, they're very active and add a lot of life to a tank.
 

aquaknight

Active Member
Yea, no clams and large angels in the same tank, doesn't end well for either party, as this juvenile Emperor learned...
 

aquaknight

Active Member
Graphic pictures aside, the real issue will be that the Yellow tang. Since he has been long established, you'll find adding larger fish like an angel or tang will be difficult, as the yellow tang will be aggressive to the newcomer. While I wouldn't say a 90gal is too small for a yellow tang (I personally have a YT in a 90gal), it's more a marginal tank, which is really limiting your chances, IMHO. The yellow tang is the only 'large' fish in my 90gal.
A dwarf angel may work, but be prepared if the yellow tang does not accept him.
 
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