New to salt water!

[Ryan20A]

Hi everyone my name is Ryan, I've recently bought a salt water tank after keeping freshwater for years. I've kept everything from planted community tanks to African cichlids, discus, large predators & oddballs but recently I decided I want a little more of a challenge! I currently have a 100g tanganyikan set up with a breading group of 15 synodontis lucipininis and a group of mixed cichlids from the lake. I also have a small tank that houses my potato puffer (tetraodon miurus) and now I've bought an ea reef pro 900s from my lfs. My new tank measures 900mm (L) x 500mm (W) x 600mm (H) and holds 267 litres between the tank and sump. I'm planning to have plenty live rock and a few easy to keep soft corals, I was looking for some ideas on what fish I could stock it with? The tank is currently not set up and likely won't be for a little while however I'd like to get a good idea of what I can keep so I can do plenty research for when the time comes!

 

[Jesterrace]

You will have to forgive me since it took me a while to find it and do the metric to gallon conversion. As I understand it this is basically a 45 gallon tank plus sump. The sump counts for additional filtration and water flow but it doesn't count in terms of what can go in the tank. For a tank of that size you can fit any Clownfish (or a pair of them), although I would stick to Occ and Percula varieties as the others can be downright mean in temperament. You can go with any Goby, Blenny, Dartfish, Dottyback (although I would stick to a captive bred Orchid as the others can be nasty), Royal Gramma Basslet, and might even be able to fit a single small Halichores Wrasse (ie Red Lined) and Cardinalfish.